UAH team’s new technique protects data on solid-state drives from radiation
Aug 01, 2022
A new method of radiation-resistant computer data storage called watermark storage that’s been developed by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) professor leading a student team has direct applications in the nuclear power and space indust...
Female urinary tract lactobaccilli can kill pathogenic bacteria, UAH research shows
Jul 06, 2022
Lactobacilli that live in the human female urinary tract’s microbiome are competitive and kill nearby pathogenic bacteria, according to the first study of its kind by a team led by microbiologist Dr. Tanya Sysoeva of UAH. ...
Effect of dust and smoke on Western drought ‘likely similar’ to African study, author says
Jun 22, 2022
A UAH student says his examination of the combined influence of dust and smoke on surface atmosphere temperatures in sub-Saharan Africa likely applies to conditions in the American West, now in its worst drought in over 1,200 years. ...
Multi-generational UAH family continues their legacy of giving by establishing the Dailey and Pope Family History Scholarship
Jun 16, 2022
Vella Dailey (B.A. History ‘76) credits UAH as playing a significant role in her family’s success. ...
Community hurricane resilience research earns doctoral student ASCE fellowship
Jun 08, 2022
Research on the effects of climate change on the destruction wrought by hurricanes and how to aid community resilience through mitigation has earned Babak Salarieh, a doctoral student in civil and environmental engineering at UAH, a 2022 American S...
AIAA Huntsville award winners Kumar, Ligrani recognized at post-pandemic dinner
May 26, 2022
After two years of pandemic delay, a graduate student and a professor at UAH were publicly recognized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Greater Huntsville Section for their contributions to aerospace science in a May ...
Nuclear rocket engine heat transfer research wins best student paper at NETS conference
May 23, 2022
A research paper about heat transfer inside the reactor of a conceptual liquid-fueled nuclear rocket engine by a UAH graduate student was hot stuff at the American Nuclear Society’s recent Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS) confer...
$20 million UAH-led partnership to boost Alabama in plasma science and engineering
May 16, 2022
Nine Alabama universities and one private firm are partnered in a new $20 million, five-year effort led by UAH to develop transformative technologies in plasma science and engineering (PSE) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Establishe...
$2.3 million NSF grant boosts UAH effort to predict harmful solar weather events
May 05, 2022
When big blasts of energy from the sun envelop the Earth, they can be so strong that a 2015 event so weakened Earth’s protective magnetic field that it penetrated to the atmosphere, posing a threat to everything from circling space station astron...
UAH collaboration creates self-learning AI platform to discover new drugs
May 04, 2022
Research to propel microsatellites and CubeSats with ionized plasma from a micro-electrical engine will take a UAH doctoral student in aerospace engineering to Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico this fall. ...