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. ...
Graduate student unites his passion for science and enthusiasm for diversity at UAH
Apr 23, 2018
Roberto Dextre first recognized his connection to science at the High School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan, where he noticed that he easily understood math and science. "I think it was the physics courses that opened my mind to how science...
UAH part of team awarded the Rossi Prize for high-energy astrophysics
Jan 31, 2018
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) team was selected by the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society as the 2018 recipient of the Rossi Prize. The team was recognized for their role in the first joint detection of...
Two UAH graduate students take first place in prestigious embedded security challenge
Jan 29, 2018
When Thiago Alves and Rishabh Das, two cybersecurity Ph.D. students at UAH, placed first in the North American Embedded Security Challenge this past November, they were both in a state of shock. Not only was the competition tough, says Das, but a f...
Two UAH researchers undertake cross-college lead poisoning study of rural Alabama town
Dec 13, 2017
Dr. Azita Amiri and Dr. Shuang Zhao are helping raise awareness about lead poisoning among children in Uniontown, Ala. ...
UAH engineering student uses 3-D printing to successfully build and test Hall-effect thruster
Nov 30, 2017
Ethan Hopping has always been passionate about space. "I remember visiting the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in elementary school, and being inspired by the story of the Apollo program and Huntsville’s role in it." ...