September 2020: The Department of Transportation recently allocated nearly 2 million dollars to fund a new University Transportation Center (UTC) whose members include Ohio State University, the University of California Irvine, and the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Zak Kassas, an RNL alumnus, is the Principal Investigator of the overall multi-university center. Dr. Humphreys will lead the center's effort at UT Austin. “We beat out at least a dozen other teams vying for this UTC,” Humphreys explains. The UTC will focus research on highly-automated transportation systems, with an emphasis on safety, security, and reliability. Read the full article here.
September 2020: NASA recently started accepting commercial contracts for missions to the International Space Station (ISS). Initially intended to make the ISS more accessible to scientific companies, the new initiative is attracting unexpected clients. NASA astronauts will soon be tasked with filming cosmetics commercials and transporting souvenirs. Dr. Todd Humphreys comments on this development, saying "If the circus is necessary to maintain the International Space Station, it's probably a good trade-off."
August 2020: Dr. Todd Humphreys's groundbreaking work in GPS over the past decade was featured in this article from the New Yorker. The article offers a charming summary of Dr. Humphreys's career and the Radionavigation Lab's GPS-related research.