Alan Mantooth, a member of the Space Center and a faculty member in the department of Electrical Engineering, has been elevated to the grade of Fellow within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).  The IEEE is a non-profit organization, and it is an authority on areas ranging from aerospace systems to consumer electronics.  The grade of Fellow recognizes the unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

Dr. Mantooth will also be presenting a paper on his research on NASA electronics for extreme environments at the March IEEE meeting.  The paper is titled “SiGe BiCMOS Fully Differential Amplifier for Extreme Temperature Range Applications.”

Derek Sears, a member of the Space Center and a faculty member in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is teaching an Honors Colloquium to a group of 36 undergraduate students at the University of Arkansas this semester.

The colloquium is titled “The Exploration of Space: A Perspective from the Visual Arts.”  The colloquium illustrates the various forces that have sculpted the exploration of space and the intensely human nature of the undertaking.  The series will examine twelve works of art from the realms of painting, engraving, sculpting, drawing, architecture, and the cinema.

The Space Center will begin its fourth year as publisher of Meteorite magazine, an international, quarterly magazine of meteorites and meteorite science.

Meteorite magazine serves as a forum for communication between amateurs, collectors, dealers, educators and researchers interested in meteorites. 

The Space Center has had several recent publications or publications that are in press.  The citations follow.

Chevrier, V., and T. S. Altheide (2008), Low Temperature Aqueous Ferric Sulfate Solutions on the Surface of Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35 (L22101), doi: 10.1029/2008GL035489.

Coleman, K. A., J. C. Dixon, K. L. Howe, L. A. Roe, and V. Chevrier (2008), Experimental Simulation of Martian Gully Forms, Planet. Space Sci., In press.

R. Ulrich, Modeling diffusion advection in the mass transfer of water vapor through Martian regolith, Icarus (2009), doi:  10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.035.

Fang-Zhen Teng, a member of the Space Center and a faculty member in the department of Geosciences, recently attended the Fall American Geophysical Union conference held in San Francisco. 

He presented a poster on lithium in the continental crust, and he convened and chaired the session on “Recent advances in lithium isotope geochemistry.”

The Space Center will offer the following classes for the Spring 2009 semester for Master’s and doctoral students in the program:

SPAC Seminar - Derek Sears

SPAC Proseminar -  Derek Sears

SPAC Internship - Rick Ulrich

SPAC  600V and 700V - Master’s and doctoral dissertation hours - various professors within the Space Center

SPAC Honors Colloquium (undergraduate) - Derek Sears

213th American Astronomical Society Meeting
January 4-8, 2009
Long Beach, CA

Titan 2009: Third Workshop on “Titan Chemistry: Observations, Experiments, Computations, and Modeling
February 26-28, 2009
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Planet Formation and Evolution: The Solar System and Extrasolar Planets
March 2-6, 2009
Tuebingen, Germany

Lunar and Planetary Science Meeting
March 23-27, 2009
The Woodlands, TX

72nd Meteoritical Society Meeting
July 13-18, 2009
Nancy, France

International Conference on Asteroid-Comet Hazard 2009
September 21-25, 2009
St. Petersburg, Russia

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
October 18-21, 2009
Portland, Oregon