UAH to host 50th anniversary lunar landing events: Fireworks show will highlight week’s activities
Jul 01, 2019
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will host a variety of events and activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 landing on the moon. UAH has played a key role in America’s space program since Marshall Space ...
Shooting for the Moon: UAH M. Louis Salmon Library awarded Recordings at Risk grant
May 20, 2019
The UAH M. Louis Salmon Library Archives and Special Collections has been awarded a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Recordings as Risk Grant. UAH was the only Alabama institution selected to receive the award in the fifth grant ...
Parisa Mostafavi Awarded UAH College of Science Graduate Research Award
Apr 15, 2019
On April 9th, Parisa Mostafavi was awarded the UAH College of Science Graduate Research Award at the 2019 Honors Day. The Graduate Research Award is given to an outstanding graduate student who has conducted leading edge research, published papers in...
UAH scientists getting first look at trove of data from Parker Solar Probe
Mar 07, 2019
Now orbiting the sun, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is streaming an incredibly large amount of data from the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument suite to NASA and then to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), where th...
Alabama Space Grant Consortium to build first collaborative CubeSat
Feb 27, 2019
An effort by Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) members to design and build the first in a planned series of statewide collaborative cube satellites (CubeSats) will be the focus of a workshop Nov. 9 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Educator Training F...
UAH only university to get two grants for student research from same NSF division
Jan 31, 2019
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is the only case this year in which one National Science Foundation division funded two site Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) at the same university. ...
Marsbee mission gets a little more real thanks to systems engineering
Jan 08, 2019
When Shahrom Doneshwar first learned about the NASA-funded plan to explore the surface of Mars using robotic bees, he says he "didn’t even know that it was possible!" Now, however, the master’s candidate in the Department of Industrial & Sy...
Dr. Gary Zank Talks Parker Solar Mission
Jan 07, 2019
Dr. Gary Zank - Program Director for the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research - recently sat down with WHNT's Steve Johnson to discuss the Parker Solar Mission. See the interview here: https://whnt.com/2018/12/30/uah-space-science-...
NAS taps CSPAR director to head decadal survey for plasma physics
Sep 24, 2018
Dr. Gary Zank, director of UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and chair of the Department of Space Science, has been named by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to co-chair a committee performing a decadal survey for pla...
NSF EPSCoR and UAH CSPAR director to address NSF as distinguished speaker
Sep 14, 2018
Dr. Gary Zank, NSF EPSCoR CPU2AL director, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and chair of the Department of Space Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), will speak on three current space mission...
