2020-05-26 21:14:07 UAH Scientists Brave Curses, Spooky Anomalies to Unravel Secrets at Skinwalker Ranch Details Published: 26 May 2020 Two intrepid explorers from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) visited an extraordinary place last summer to perform experiments for a research team participating in a docu-series called “The Secret of Skinwalker … Read more » 2020-05-11 13:58:27 Unique spectrometer developed at UAH finds ultrafast aspect of gallium arsenide Details Published: 11 May 2020 Researchers at UAH have developed a unique spectrometer to study ultrafast properties of photonic materials and devices and have used it to discover a never before observed aspect of gallium arsenide (GaAs), one of the most important photonic … Read more » 2020-01-06 16:40:33 UAH’s aerospace engineering research activities rank fifth in the United States Details Published: 06 January 2020 Five programs among the top 12 … Read more » 2019-12-18 14:38:50 UAH alumna Jessica A. Gaskin leads NASA Lynx X-ray Observatory Mission Details Published: 18 December 2019 Parental influence ignited Jessica Gaskin’s (’04 PhD Physics) appreciation of the wonders of space at an early … Read more » 2019-07-01 18:46:22 Space Hardware Club on the hunt for terrestrial gamma rays in thunderstorms Details Published: 01 July 2019 Student members of the Space Hardware Club at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are preparing to launch weather balloons into thunderstorms to try to directly observe the terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs) storms … Read more » 2019-04-08 15:08:58 Projection system to study insect vision could lead to new navigational aids Details Published: 08 April 2019 Development of a virtual reality-like projection system to study insect vision could eventually provide the U.S. Air Force with a new type of navigation … Read more » 2019-01-10 15:40:35 Five UAH programs ranked among the nation’s top 25 by NSF Details Published: 10 January 2019 The National Science Foundation released their latest survey of federally financed research expenditures, and five programs at UAH continue to be ranked among the top 25 in the nation. These include the … Read more » 2018-10-24 16:15:57 UAH alumna Mary W. Bates gives solid advice for when “life throws curveballs” Details Published: 24 October 2018 By the time she was six, Mary "Lisa" Williams Bates (’14, MSE, Operations Research), was so far ahead of other children her age that she mastered the multiplication times tables to 12, and was reading National Geographic and other science … Read more » 2018-07-10 21:04:16 Ph.D. student receives prestigious optics and photonics education scholarship from SPIE Details Published: 10 July 2018 Hemang Jani, a Ph.D. candidate in optical science and engineering at UAH, was one of only 85 students around the world to receive a 2018 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The … Read more » 2018-06-01 16:59:07 UAH researchers support project to detect particles from deep space on NASA balloon mission Details Published: 01 June 2018 A team of researchers at UAH has been awarded NASA funding as part of a large, five-year-long U.S. collaboration to fly an ultra-long duration balloon mission with three innovative ultra-sensitive telescopes to sense cosmic rays and neutrinos … Read more » 123