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 » 2017-11-08 20:33:36 Two UAH graduate students attend prestigious Siegman International School on Lasers Details Published: 08 November 2017 Dipen Barot and Hemang Jani were selected to attend the prestigious Siegman International School on Lasers in 2016 and 2017 … Read more » 2017-08-11 14:00:00 Website highlights campus eclipse activities Written by Jim Steele Details Published: 11 August 2017 Your one-stop location for solar eclipse happenings at UAH is a website called The UAH Solar Eclipse … Read more » 2017-06-01 21:27:22 UAH's Sarthak Dasadia completes prestigious New York Data Incubator program Details Published: 01 June 2017 Sarthak Dasadia ('17 PhD Physics) a post-doctoral researcher (Physicist and Data Scientist) at UAH recently completed a prestigious data science fellowship, The Data Incubator (TDI) … Read more » 2017-05-23 14:00:00 UAH doctoral student discusses photonics, science on Capitol Hill Details Published: 23 May 2017 A doctoral student in photonics at UAH was on a team that recently met with U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama's 5th Congressional District and Congressional staffers in other offices in support of photonics and science … Read more » 123