ANNOUNCEMENTS Archive

  • Lori Magruder Named Director of Center for Space Research January 18, 2024
    Lori Magruder, an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (ASE/EM), has been named director of the Center for Space Research (CSR), effective Jan. 1. Prior to becoming director, she served as associate director of research and communications from 2020 – 2022, then as the center’s interim director throughout 2023. Srinivas Bettadpur served as previous ...
  • Lori Magruder Appointed Director of the Center for Space Research January 10, 2024
    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 ...
  • ASE/EM Faculty Recognized with Navy Impact Influencer Awards October 27, 2023
    Three faculty members in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics 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. Cmdr. Stacey O’Neal, Commanding Officer of the Navy Talent Acquisition Group San Antonio, presented the awards to ...
  • Quantum Sensing Era Begins at CSR March 16, 2023
    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 in their environment, and using that to infer the time-variations in ...
  • Dr. Moriba Jah Awarded ‘Genius Grant’ by MacArthur Foundation October 12, 2022
    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 ...
  • Dr. Dev Niyogi Awarded 2023 The Helmut E. Landsberg Award from AMS August 19, 2022
    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 ...
  • Dr. Brandon Jones to moderate MAGAL Mission workshop at UN Ocean Conference June 27, 2022
    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 ...
  • Dr. Ann Chen Awarded W. A. “Tex” Moncrief Grand Challenge Award for 2022 May 31, 2022
    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. ...
  • Corinne Vassallo recognized with the Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Educator Award February 28, 2022
    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 ...
  • Margaret Baguio Recognized as a PAESMEM Awardee by the White House February 8, 2022
    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 ...