Small-town stargazer pursues passion for planetary seismology with physics Ph.D.
Jun 28, 2018
Stargazing may have been the inspiration behind Deanna Phillips’ decision to earn her Ph.D. in planetary science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). ...
UAH and JACOBS Engineering announce new graduate fellowship program
Jun 22, 2018
UAH and JACOBS Engineering recently established a new education partnership, designed to offer graduate students financial support and the opportunity to work with company engineers on pioneering research projects. ...
NESSF award funds student’s research into extreme space weather
Jun 18, 2018
Talwinder Singh, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Space Science at UAH, has been awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) for the 2018/2019 academic year. His proposal, entitled "Modeling Coronal Mass Ejections in the Solar W...
UAH Ph.D. student discovers – and reports – vulnerability in commercially available PLC
May 30, 2018
Thanks to a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered by UAH cybersecurity student Thiago Alves and reported to the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), Rockwell Automation was able to release a patch to better protec...
UAH researchers develop novel technique to identify counterfeit flash memory
May 29, 2018
Counterfeiting electronic components may sound like a plot point lifted from a technothriller by Daniel Suarez or Michael Crichton, but it's a very real – and growing – threat to the safety and reliability of our critical infrastructure. ...
UAH students awarded $10,000 to compete in national cybersecurity challenge
May 22, 2018
A team of four students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) were among 10 finalists selected to participate in the third annual National Cyber Analyst Challenge and Conference (NCAC) this past spring: Justin Cole, Iain Deason, and Ky...
CAREER awardee balances antenna research with mentorship of aspiring STEM professionals
May 21, 2018
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development Program (CAREER) is designed to support early-career faculty who have "the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of th...
UAH researchers receive NASA Space Flight Awareness Team Award
May 17, 2018
On the morning of August 17, 2017, Rachel Hamburg, a master’s student in the Department of Space Science at UAH, received a text message from a fellow graduate student at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). "He told me...
UAH researchers get on consumers’ wavelength with InSb technology
Apr 27, 2018
A paper by UAH physics professor Dr. Don Gregory and UAH Ph.D. student Seyed Sadreddin Mirshafieyan was recently published in Nature, Scientific Reports. ...
UAH student part of discovery that may improve treatment of type 1 diabetes
Apr 24, 2018
Shristi Shrestha is both literally and figuratively a long way from her days as an undergraduate student conducting research on medicinal plants. ...