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Declan Brick

Honors student Declan Brick named Goldwater Scholar

Jun 07, 2021

Declan Brick, an aerospace engineering and physics double-major at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has been named a Goldwater Scholar, the first from UAH in 13 years. ...


Jonathan Lee

Alumnus and NASA inventor Jonathan Lee is driven to battle COVID-19 after losing his father

May 26, 2021

For NASA inventor Jonathan Lee, an alumnus of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, the global pandemic could not be more personal: it took away his father last year, spurring Lee to join the battl...


Dr. Kimberly Robinson

Alumna Dr. Kimberly Robinson named U.S. Space & Rocket Center CEO

May 12, 2021

Dr. Kimberly Robinson, an alumna of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, has been named Executive Director and CEO of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC). The hiring was announced by the Al...


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UAH presents 2021 University Awards for Excellence to faculty, staff

Apr 20, 2021

On April 16, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, hosted the annual University Awards for Excellence ceremony virtually to recognize the contributions of the university’s faculty, staff member...


Dr. Gary Zank featured in AAS Article

Dr. Gary Zank featured in AAS Article

Apr 14, 2021

A study led by CSPAR's Dr. Gary Zank titled “The Origin of Switchbacks in the Solar Corona: Linear Theory” was recently featured by  the American Astronomical Society.   See the AAS article here: https://aasnova.org/202...


Alencia Hall

Alencia Hall awarded summer internship to Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

Mar 25, 2021

Honors Student Alencia Hall, a sophomore majoring in aerospace engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, part of The University of Alabama System, has been awarded a summer internship with Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics La...


Parker Solar Probe - Update on Switchbacks

Parker Solar Probe - Update on Switchbacks

Mar 09, 2021

When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sent back the first observations from its voyage to the Sun, scientists found signs of a wild ocean of currents and waves quite unlike the near-Earth space much closer to our planet. This ocean was spiked wi...


Dr. James Adams

CSPAR’s James Adams elevated to senior member by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Mar 08, 2021

Dr. James Adams, a principal research scientist at the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been elevated to senior member by the In...


Haihong Che

Solar physicist proposes new mechanism for how electrons work in solar flares

Feb 08, 2021

A new mechanism to explain how electrons work in solar flares has been proposed by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) solar physicist using a theoretical model of particle acceleration. ...


A Lucky Spacecraft Alignment Has Recorded a Huge, Evolving Solar Eruption

A Lucky Spacecraft Alignment Has Recorded a Huge, Evolving Solar Eruption

Jan 25, 2021

CSPAR scientists were recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The Letter exploits joint observations of the same interplanetary coronal mass ejection by widely separated spacecraft to study, for the first time, the turbulent evolutio...


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