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. ...
Second strongest shock wave found in merging galaxy clusters
May 04, 2016
The discovery by a physics doctoral student at UAH of the second-strongest merger shock in clusters of galaxies ever observed has generated excitement that is opening doors to further scientific exploration. ...
Fifteen students win at Research Horizons Poster Day
Apr 18, 2016
Fifteen students were winners at the second annual Research Horizons Day Poster Session held in M. Louis Salmon Library's Student Success Center Tuesday, April 12. ...
Innovative cybersecurity research lands UAH doctoral student best poster award
Mar 31, 2016
UAH computer engineering doctoral student Vahid Heydari's poster on "Preventing Remote Cyber Attacks against Aircraft Avionics Systems" was recently named the best poster at the 11th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security in Bo...
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UAH student’s research could hasten the dawn of hybrid rocket engines
Jul 08, 2015
Hybrid rocket fuel research being done by a UAH mechanical engineering doctoral student could hasten the day when a simpler, safer, more economical rocket engine propels space missions. ...
PECAN storm research team does UAH outreach on the Plains
Jun 25, 2015
Wherever three or more mobile Doppler radars are gathered together, the locals in the Plains states will wonder if they should be concerned about the weather. ...