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2022 COS Honors Day

2022 COS Honors Day

Apr 08, 2022

 The College of Science is home to many outstanding students, faculty, and staff. On Tuesday, April 5, COS gathered to recognize several individuals for Honors Day. The Program of Events from the day can be found here. Following the ackno...


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UAH Space Hardware Club team will connect area students with International Space Station

Apr 04, 2022

Eight area sixth and eighth graders will be placing a long-distance call to lower Earth orbit when they dial up the International Space Station (ISS) via ham radio on April 7. ...


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UAH programs in top 25 nationally for federal funding as university ranks in research elite

Mar 10, 2022

Six programs at UAH rank among the top 25 federally-funded programs in the United States, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey. ...


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Image made in pioneering UAH research into galactic gas mixing appears on journal cover

Feb 24, 2022

An image created by UAH astrophysicists who did pioneering research to quantify processes involved in gas mixing in the tails of galaxies being stripped of their gas envelopes has been featured on the cover of the February issue of the journal “N...


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UAH achieves top level R1 rank in Carnegie research classifications

Feb 07, 2022

UAH has achieved the highest research activity rating in the current, 2021 update of the Carnegie Classification of Institutes of Higher Education. ...


Meet the Spring 2022 Science Ambassadors

Meet the Spring 2022 Science Ambassadors

Feb 02, 2022

The Science Ambassador program cultivates passionate College of Science student leaders who demonstrate the diversity of our community and are happy to share their UAH stories! Our ambassador team consists of knowledgeable student leaders who will pr...


NASA's successful MaGIXS launch led by COS alumni

NASA's successful MaGIXS launch led by COS alumni

Aug 20, 2021

Led by Dr. Amy Winebarger (Ph.D., Physics, 2000 | M.S., Physics, 1997) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on July 30, 2021, the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) payload was successfully launche...


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Optics doctoral student Nabil Hoque is one of 78 globally to receive SPIE scholarship

Jul 15, 2021

Nabil Md Rakinul Hoque, a doctoral candidate in optical science and engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), is one of 78 students globally to receive a 2021 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship. ...


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‘Lonely cloud’ bigger than Milky Way found in a galaxy ‘no-man’s land’ by UAH physics team

Jun 30, 2021

A scientifically mysterious, isolated cloud bigger than the Milky Way has been found by a research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in a “no-man’s land” for galaxies. ...


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Honors student Declan Brick named Goldwater Scholar

Jun 07, 2021

Declan Brick, an aerospace engineering and physics double-major at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has been named a Goldwater Scholar, the first from UAH in 13 years. ...


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