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...
Space Hardware Club developing shield for NASA’s balloon X-ray telescopes
Jul 06, 2016
Protecting NASA’s balloon-born X-ray telescopes from stray X-rays that can spoil their view is the focus of a new project by the Space Hardware Club (SHC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) that’s being fully funded by $50,000 fro...
UAH graduate student’s research into sun’s effect on space weather gets NASA boost
Jun 09, 2016
A UAH doctoral student's research into how the sun mediates fundamental forces that affect space weather has received support from NASA's Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) program. ...
Bitzer to study lightning that sizzles
May 06, 2016
Most cloud-to-ground lightning (about eight of nine events) is actually a rapid series of strikes, pop-pop-pop, each lasting a few hundreds of millionths of a second, too fast for our eyes to separate into individual events. ...