Press Releases
| 04/26/2011 | SwRI to launch Energy Storage System Evaluation and Safety (EssEs) Consortium
ESSES consortium designed to provide transparency in the automotive battery market to advance global development of energy storage systems |
| 04/21/2011 | NASA spacecraft reveals dramatic changes in Mars' atmosphere
Researchers discover dry ice deposit at planet's south pole |
| 03/24/2011 | SwRI wins Swiss government accreditation to evaluate diesel engine exhaust filters under world's strictest standards for particulate emissions
Swiss Federal Office for the Environment accredited SwRI to evaluate engine exhaust filters sold in Switzerland |
| 03/15/2011 | SwRI-developed training program for dealing with behavioral problems is available as iPhone application
Training program helps parents learn techniques for managing children with autism and ADHD, as well as better controlling generally disruptive behaviors |
| 03/07/2011 | Cassini finds Enceladus is a powerhouse
Temperatures near the southern poles equal to heat-generated power of 20 coal-fueled power stations |
| 03/01/2011 | 2011 Next-Gen Suborbital Researchers Conference a hit, 2012 follow-up conference planned
More than 300 attend conference to explore topics on suborbital spaceflight |
| 02/28/2011 | SwRI signs contracts to fly eight pioneering missions with SwRI payload specialists aboard reusable suborbital launchers, with options for more flights
Suborbital flights will support biomedical, microgravity and astronomical imaging experiments. |
| 02/07/2011 | Alger to receive SAE's Forest R. McFarland Award
Dr. Terry Alger will receive the award in Detroit at the April 2011 SAE World Congress |
| 02/02/2011 | SwRI's Roberts elected Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers
Institute Engineer Dr. Charles Roberts Jr. recognized for his work in advanced gasoline and diesel engine combustion and emissions control |
| 01/31/2011 | Cope elected Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
SwRI Program Manager Dr. Dale A. Cope named Associate Fellow |
| 01/20/2011 | SwRI, India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research sign strategic alliance agreement
SwRI and CSIR will develop novel technologies in fuels research and engine development projects |
| 12/29/2010 | Chiang elected as Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
SwRI's Dr. Kuang-Tsan Chiang recognized for his contributions to the science and technology of aeronautics |
| 12/14/2010 | IBEX spacecraft makes first-ever images of magnetotail structures, dynamic interactions occurring in the invisible space around Earth
The magnetosphere’s plasma sheet and magnetotail, as well as a possible plasmoid, are seen for the first time |
| 12/12/2010 | Demise of large satellite may have led to the formation of Saturn’s rings and inner moons
Tidal forces are theorized to have stripped icy layers from the satellite, leaving the rocky core to collide with the planet |
| 12/09/2010 | The end of planet formation, as told by trace elements from the mantles of Earth, the Moon and Mars
Elements found in the mantles of Earth, the Moon and Mars believed delivered by massive impactors more than 4.5 billion years ago |