ANNOUNCEMENTS Archive

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lori Magruder has been appointed as the Director of the Center for Space Research (CSR) effective 1 January 2024. Dr. Lori Magruder is an Associate Professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin and holds the Myron L. Begeman Fellowship in Engineering. Dr. Magruder ...

Raghav Mahalingam, Ryan Russell and John-Paul Clarke were recognized with U.S. Navy Impact Influencer Awards at a ceremony held in the Aerospace Engineering Building at The University of Texas at Austin on Oct. 23. Photo credit: UT Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. Three faculty members in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics were recognized ...

Texas Engineers are leading a multi-university research team, funded by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, that will build technology and tools to improve measurement of important climate factors by observing atoms in outer space. They will focus on the concept of quantum sensing, which involves observing how atoms react to small changes ...

Moriba Jah, an astrodynamicist, space environmentalist and aerospace engineer at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as the “genius grant.” The award recognizes Jah’s work to track and monitor the more than 30,000 human-made objects orbiting the earth. Jah is one of 25 individuals selected for the ...

It gives us great pleasure to share the news that Dr. Dev Niyogi has received The Helmut E. Landsberg Award from the American Meteorological Society for 2023, for his pathbreaking discoveries: “For decades of leadership and pathbreaking discoveries related to assessing urban climate extremes, their prediction and mitigation using data-model integration, and local to global partnerships” The 2023 AMS recipients ...

The MAGAL Ocean Radar Altimetry Mission Design project, funded by the UT Austin/Portugal Program and led at UT by CSR, will present a hybrid/Zoom workshop at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon on 30 June 2022 at 8:00am Austin time. The Workshop will be moderated by Dr. Brandon Jones of the UT Aerospace Engineering ...

Ann Chen, an assistant professor of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, is one of five researchers selected to receive a 2022 W. A. “Tex” Moncrief Grand Challenge Award by the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. The Moncrief awards are given to researchers that aim to find solutions to society’s biggest, most important questions. ...

University of Texas at Austin’s graduate student is recognized with the Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Educator Award on behalf of the National Center for Women and Information Technology. Corinne Vassallo, a PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin and researcher with the Center for Space Research received an honorable mention with the Aspirations in ...

It gives us great pleasure to share the news that Ms. Margaret Rhule Baguio, of UT Center for Space Research and the Texas Space Grant Consortium, has been awarded a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM), for her dedication, passion, and effectiveness in the cause of space-related outreach and education. Margaret and the team ...

Professor Maruthi Akella of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The world’s largest aerospace engineering society, AIAA has been the torchbearer for professional leadership in the field for more than 80 years. According ...