Below you will find a list of our current news and announcements. If you are looking for past ones, please visit our Past News and Announcements page.
- October, 27 2023: Students enjoying the Halloween-themed event at Schueller Observatory “spooky viewing party”
2023 News and Announcements
- January 2024: Prof. Tim Cook will present NAIL: a Novel, Asynchronous, Integrating, Latching deformable mirror controller (Timothy Cook, Mitchell Bailey, Supriya Chakrabarti, Kuravi Hewawasam and Christopher Mendillo) at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in New Orleans.
- December 2023: Prof. Cohen will present "The Possible Impact of a Close-in Exoplanet on Type-II Radio Burst Signature" at Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting.
- November, 21 2023: Mit Bailey will present his literature survey paper/Phd qualifier “Free space communication systems and methods in the near-earth and lunar regimes”
- November, 11 2023:Congratulations to Lukas Hanson who successfully passed his MS Thesis Defense "Using the Space Weather Modeling Framework to Study the Solar Wind of the Sun and Sun-like Stars”.
- November 10, 2023: Congratulations to Lukas Hanson who successfully passed her MS Dissertation Proposal Defense in Physics on the title is "Airglow as seen by LITES".
- November, 7 2023: Congratulations to Sunip Mukherjee for successfully defending his Ph.D. in Physics . The title is: Multi-Instrument, Multi-Location Observation and Modeling of the Upper Atmosphere-Ionosphere.
- October 2023: Congratulations to Guangfeng Yu who successfully passed his defense on October 12! The tile is: Monolithic Achromatic Nulling Interferometric Coronagraph Contrast Measurement.
- October, 13 2023: The meeting held at the Lanesville Community Center featured a wide-ranging talk by UMass Lowell Physics Professor Supriya Chakrabarti, director of the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology.
- Professor Chakrabarti reviewed a series of astrophysics and space science research projects, including the development, with student participation, of new instruments that are used with ground, balloon, and space-based platforms (including the Hubble) and MASTS, a "one-stop support system for innovators working on small spacecraft," with partners from academia, industry, and government.
- September 2023: MASTS was featured in the following media
- WHAV(Wavelengths): UMass Lowell Secures $5.5 Million for Miniature Space Satellite Program; Could Fuel Startups
- Boston Business Journal: UMass Lowell establishes center for satellite, spacecraft work
- Inside Lowell: Grant Helps UML Aerospace Center Blast Off
- August 2023: Prof. Chris Mendillo presented two papers at SPIE, San Diego CA.
- August 2023: Prof. Supriya Chakrabarti presented Development and field tests of two spectral imagers for aeronomy applications at 47th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods.
- August 2023: Prof. Silas Laycock and and grad student, Nicholas Sorabella were recently interviewed by UMass Lowell for the NASA grant "Physics Grad Student Named One of NASA’s FINESST".
- August 2023: Associate Professor Ofer Cohen was quoted in the Live Science article: Highest-energy sunlight ever recorded is far beyond what scientists thought possible.
- August 2023: Kalpa Henadhira Arachchige presents a poster at the Solar Heliospheric and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) 2023 Workshop in Stowe, Vt. about "The Connection Between the Free Parameters of a Solar Wind Model and the Sunspot Solar Cycle in the Context of Solar Wind Predictions at 1 AU".
- July 2023: Prof. Supriya Chakrabarti and graduate student, Mitchell Bailey, hosted students and mentors (UMass Boston) from Partners Aligned to Heighten Broad Participation in STEM (PATHS)
- July 2023: Congratulations to Nicholas Sorabella and his advisor, Silas Laycock, on being awarded NASA’s FINESST research grant. Nick is developing a computational model for gravitational self-lensing.