Physics Ph.D. candidate visits Congress to advocate for Optics and Photonics

Physics Ph.D. candidate visits Congress to advocate for Optics and Photonics

Mar 21, 2023

Kirtan Dixit, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, traveled to Washington, D.C., February 28 to March 1 to update members ...

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Undergraduate Research celebrates 9th annual UAH Research Horizons Poster Session

Mar 10, 2023

On March 7, undergraduates at The University of Alabama in Huntsville participated in the ninth annual UAH Research Horizons Poster Session at the Charger Union. A total of 34 projects were presented by the students who conducted the work, with sel...

Danielle Bates Ford

Graduate student on team that finds hidden midsize monster black hole in dwarf galaxy

Jan 16, 2023

A graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy is the lead author of a paper in The Astrophysical Journal describing the discovery of an intermediate-size black hole buried in gas and dust in a dwarf galaxy. ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti

Researchers discover new monster black hole 'practically in our back yard'

Oct 19, 2022

The discovery of a so-called monster black hole that has about 12 times the mass of the sun is detailed in a new Astrophysical Journal research submission, the lead author of which is Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, a physics professor at The University o...

Dr. Frank Franz

Dr. Frank Franz, who transformed UAH, dies

Aug 11, 2022

Dr. Frank Franz, the fifth and longest-serving president of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), who instituted the creation of a campus strategic plan, oversaw the expansion of campus facilities and grew UAH’s research programs and aca...

Duane and Hoque smiling and looking at their experiment in their UAH laboratory

UAH-developed ultrasensitive optical sensing instrument has broad medical, science uses

Aug 04, 2022

In research that could broadly benefit science, medicine and engineering, a new kind of ultrasensitive optical sensing instrument has been developed by a doctoral student at UAH. ...

Nazar Pyvovar

Student overcomes setbacks of war to solve a difficult quantum optical system problem

Jul 21, 2022

In work applicable to super-fast quantum computing and quantum optics, undergraduate research by a recent graduate in physics and mathematics at UAH has simplified a difficult mathematical problem to further illuminate the behavior of two-level qua...

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UAH co-hosts ALSAMP conference to boost underrepresented student participation in STEM

Jul 13, 2022

UAH recently co-hosted the 2022 Spring Research Conference for the Alabama Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ALSAMP). ...

group photo of Team Spaceshot members outside holding their banner

UAH CanSat teams place first, second and third in the nation

Jun 28, 2022

Three CanSat teams from UAH Space Hardware Club (SHC) placed first, second and third in the nation during recent international competition in the American Astronautical Society-sponsored aerospace design and production event. ...

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UAH announces faculty promotion and tenure decisions for 2022-2023 academic year

Apr 29, 2022

UAH announced that 26 faculty members have been recognized for their outstanding performance and overall excellence by being awarded tenure and/or promotion effective the 2022-2023 academic year. ...