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Detection of electrical signaling between tomato plants raises interesting questions

Jul 09, 2020

The soil beneath our feet is alive with electrical signals being sent from one plant to another, according to research in which a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Compute...


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David E. Howard inducted into Inventors Hall of Fame

Jun 24, 2020

University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) alumnus David E. Howard has been inducted into the NASA Technology Transfer Program’s Inventors Hall of Fame (IHOF). Howard worked as a civil servant for NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) for 34...


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UAH seniors designing new STEM tools for economically challenged K-12 students

Jun 16, 2020

Two teams of senior students in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Product Realization (MAE 490) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are designing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) tool products to engage and inspire e...


Dennis Nikitaev

Nuclear thermal propulsion research wins graduate student AAS Molly Macauley Award

Jun 10, 2020

Research on seeded hydrogen in nuclear thermal rocket engines has won a graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) one of two 2020 American Astronautical Society (AAS) Molly Macauley Awards for Science and Engineer...


Dr. Shery Welsh, UAH PhD in Materials Sciences.

Dr. Shery Welsh accepts position as Director, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Jun 09, 2020

University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) alumna, Dr. Shery Welsh, who earned her PhD in Materials Sciences, has been tapped as Director, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in Arlington, Virginia. ...


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Message from UAH leadership regarding recent events

Jun 03, 2020

The tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other African Americans and people of color speak to the institutionalized racism that plagues our country. Those horrific incidents continuously define the everyday re...


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Makenzie Fogle named Department of Defense SMART Scholar

Jun 02, 2020

It's an achievement many college students strive for, becoming a Science Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholar. Between 2009 and 2018, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has had 21 students receive the Department of...


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UAH scientists brave curses, spooky anomalies to unravel secrets at Skinwalker Ranch

May 26, 2020

Two intrepid explorers from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) visited an extraordinary place last summer to perform experiments for a research team participating in a docu-series called “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.” ...


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ASGC cube satellite would explore using lunar soil as human radiation shield

May 07, 2020

Science aboard an Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) student-led cube satellite mission called AEGIS could be valuable to developing future human outposts on the moon and in space travel to Mars if NASA gives the go-ahead for a 2022 flight. ...


Research Horizons Day

Awards won by 19 student projects at UAH Research Horizons Day

Apr 24, 2020

Nineteen research projects, and the students who conducted the work, were awarded at the recent COVID-19 modified Research Horizons Day Poster Session at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). ...


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