‘Bubble-through’ nuclear engine might be a future NASA workhorse
Mar 08, 2022
A cutting-edge nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) rocket engine using what’s called centrifugal liquid fuel bubble-through could one day be a ticket for NASA to go directly into deep space. ...
UAH helping create AI cell phone forensics tool to help police solve mass crimes
Mar 01, 2022
There can be lots of forensic evidence on many people’s cell phones when a mass incident like a shooting or bombing is happens, but winnowing out the relevant material and putting it in context can be a time-consuming and tedious affair for law e...
UAH Honors College receives continuing $125K gift to fund the Stanley E. Prevost Honors Scholarship
Feb 23, 2022
Stanley E. Prevost presented the UAH Honors College with a $125,000 gift as part of a continuing gift to fund the UAH Stanley E. Prevost Honors Scholarship. ...
Image made in pioneering UAH research into galactic gas mixing appears on journal cover
Feb 24, 2022
An image created by UAH astrophysicists who did pioneering research to quantify processes involved in gas mixing in the tails of galaxies being stripped of their gas envelopes has been featured on the cover of the February issue of the journal “N...
UAH physicist will study super-hot solar processes with $616,000 NSF CAREER grant
Feb 09, 2022
A solar physicist at UAH has been awarded a five-year, $616,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award to study how solar flares explosively release magnetic energy and create energetic particles. ...
Research to improve solid state drives earns UAH’s Dr. Ray a $650,000 NSF CAREER award
Jan 24, 2022
New research to make future computer solid state drives (SSDs) more resilient, durable and energy-efficient has attracted a five-year, $650,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for Dr. Biswajit Ray...
Grant helps Baudry Lab research protein’s interactions in so-called orphan diseases
Jan 18, 2022
Research at the Baudry Lab at UAH to model how the SETBP1 protein interacts with other DNA to regulate a cell has attracted one of 40 global $46,000 seed grants from the Million-Dollar Bike Ride program at the University of Pennsylvania Health Syst...
UAH-led research uncovers key system in E. coli that could lead to new antibiotics
Jan 10, 2022
Research led by UAH has for the first time identified the precise genetic operational structure of a key system in Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria, opening the door to possible new antibiotics to treat the infections it causes. ...
Students win awards in UAH Graduate School’s 3 Minute Thesis Competition
Nov 18, 2021
Six students from three colleges at UAH recently participated in the UAH Graduate School’s 3 Minute Thesis Competition. ...
Haliczer one of 65 graduate students nationwide to earn DOE program fellowship
Oct 11, 2021
David Haliczer, a third-year doctoral student in atmospheric science at UAH, is one of 65 graduate students nationwide to be selected for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research program’s 2021 Solicitation 1 fell...