Connecting NASA To The Classroom: UMBC Physicist Zhibo Zhang To Lead Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute

UMBC's Zhibo Zhang will take the helm of the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute, UMBC's arm of a multi-institution consortium dedicated to research on the Sun, its processes, and space weather. We are very proud of the fact that UMBC is currently ranked as the #11 institution in the nation in NASA expenditures,” say Karl V. Steiner, vice president for research and creative achievement. “Zhibo Zhang is an outstanding colleague with a broad set of relevant expertise and experiences who will provide important leadership to GPHI and to our partnership with Catholic University under PHaSER. I know that he is the right leader to strengthen our relationship with NASA, building on over three decades of successful cooperative partnership between UMBC and NASA Goddard.