A trip to Capitol Hill gives public affairs graduate real-world political advocacy experience
Jun 04, 2019
Given her professional aspirations to become a policy maker, it seems all but inevitable that Erin Wright will one day end up in Washington, D.C. So she was thrilled to be invited on a trip to the nation’s capital last month to attend Advocacy Da...
VORTEX-SE delivers tornado formation research
May 09, 2019
Scientists at UAH are publishing research about tornado formation resulting from the multiyear Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment Southeast (VORTEX-SE) program. ...
Novel else-tree classifier seeks to minimize misclassification in biological research studies
Jan 28, 2019
Truong Xuan Tran may have started his academic career as an electronic and telecommunication engineering major at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, but since coming to the U.S., he’s decided to follow his passion for computer scienc...
Marsbee mission gets a little more real thanks to systems engineering
Jan 08, 2019
When Shahrom Doneshwar first learned about the NASA-funded plan to explore the surface of Mars using robotic bees, he says he "didn’t even know that it was possible!" Now, however, the master’s candidate in the Department of Industrial & Sy...
Plasma-based technology may bring clarity to challenges posed by contaminated water
Dec 17, 2018
The availability of clean, potable water is a concern for everyone, from residents here on Earth to astronauts in space. To address the issue, researchers have recently begun studying plasma-based technologies as a cost-effective method to purify w...
International collaboration encourages “exchange of ideas and different perspectives”
Nov 05, 2018
When Victor Fontalvo left Colombia as a Ph.D. visitor to UAH on a Fulbright scholarship, he was surprised to find a familiar face upon his arrival – that of his former undergraduate student from the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia...
Alabama’s bioscience industry buoyed by research universities like UAH
Oct 03, 2018
The nation’s bioscience industry is rapidly becoming an economic driver according to a recent report from the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, generating $2 trillion in annual economic impact and employing more than 1.74 million people. ...
Wind tunnel will be used to study gas turbine hot section components
Aug 22, 2018
The wind tunnel at UAH Johnson Research Center (JRC) will be used to provide data to research gas turbine hot section components at engine conditions. ...
Cyber security program for service members substantiates success with first graduates
Aug 13, 2018
When UAH embarked on the Cyber Private Public Partnership (Cyber P3) in 2015, it was one of eight universities selected by the Army Reserve to help increase the number of highly trained cybersecurity professionals in the U.S. Now, just three years ...
UAH / MSFC / SAO partnership creates instrument to fly in sun's corona on probe
Aug 09, 2018
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) have created and tested the only instrument that will sample the solar wind while exposed directly to it ...