UAH supplies critical systems for NASA super pressure balloon
Apr 10, 2017
Critical systems for NASA’s Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO) Super Pressure Balloon have been supplied and calibrated by UAH. ...
VORTEX-SE tornado study brings 11 institutions to UAH
Mar 23, 2017
The mysteries of severe weather in the southeastern U.S. — and why tornadoes kill and injure more people here than any other part of the country — will get an in-depth probe this spring, as researchers from 11 research institutions around the c...
Radar study targeting wind events at NASA, Air Force launch facilities
Feb 09, 2017
Rockets rolling to their launch towers at both the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida (and the people who work on them) may soon be a little bit safer, thanks to research in the Atmospheric Science Departmen...
UAH seeks science behind Sand Mountain tornadoes
Oct 20, 2016
Squeezed upward over the big toe of the Cumberland foothills, wind flowing north in front of a storm system accelerates over Sand Mountain in the northeastern corner of Alabama – until it hits the far edge. ...
UAH collaboration with NASA has ‘changed the textbooks’
Oct 20, 2016
If it weren’t for the unique and decades-long collaboration between NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and UAH, Dr. Michael Brigg’s research might not ever have gotten off the ground. ...
Smart electrical systems pay off, Charger Energy Lab research shows
Oct 17, 2016
The economic viability of an energy system that saves money for utilities and consumers by reducing demand peaks on the electrical supply grid has been demonstrated by a prototype energy lab at UAH, its creator says. ...
10 UAH students receive NSF CyberCorps scholarships
Sep 13, 2016
Full cybersecurity scholarships have been awarded to 10 students at UAH from its five-year, $4.2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberCorps Scholarships for Service program. ...
Initiative broadens UAH engineering students’ exposure to cybersecurity
Sep 06, 2016
Engineers who graduate from UAH will have broad exposure to industrial control systems cybersecurity within their fields of study under a new initiative. ...
New UAH wind tunnel ready for action
Jul 08, 2016
A new $2 million wind tunnel system at UAH is ready to undertake supersonic flow research with Mach numbers up to 3. ...
UAH's Apke uses satellite scans to study thunderstorms
Jul 07, 2016
Can you tell much about a thunderstorm by starting at the top? Jason Apke, a doctoral student in atmospheric science at UAH, thinks he might one day be able to use images of cloud tops taken every minute by a National Oceanic an...
