Dr. Tingting Wu and Dr. Lingze Duan

Researchers developing glass fiber drinking water monitor with EPA grant

Jan 07, 2021

A novel sensor network using glass fibers to safeguard drinking water supplies is being developed under a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant in a cross-campus collaboration at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the Uni...

Dr. Jessica Gaskin

Dr. Jessica Gaskin wins 2020 Alumni of Achievement award for College of Science

Oct 08, 2020

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, announced that Dr. Jessica A. Gaskin has won the 2020 Alumni of Achievement Award for the College of Science. ...

Parisa Mostafavi

Dr. Parisa Mostafavi is 2020 Space Physics and Aeronomy Fred L. Scarf Award honoree

Sep 30, 2020

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) announced today that Dr. Parisa Mostafavi is the 2020 Space Physics and Aeronomy Fred L. Scarf Award honoree. Dr. Mostafavi has a BS in engineering physics and a master's in plasma engineering. She was awarded h...

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UAH awarded $3.7 million Department of Defense grant

Sep 24, 2020

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has been awarded a $3.7 million Department of Defense (DoD) grant under the Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program (DMCSP) by the Office of Economic...

Samantha Johnson

Physics doctoral student Samantha Johnson receives SPIE scholarship

Jun 17, 2020

A doctoral student in physics at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) who is a graduate research assistant (GRA) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has been awarded a $4,000 optics and photonics education scholarship by SPIE, ...

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UAH scientists brave curses, spooky anomalies to unravel secrets at Skinwalker Ranch

May 26, 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 Ranch.” ...

Ligtze Duan and Dr. Hemang Jani

Unique spectrometer developed at UAH finds ultrafast aspect of gallium arsenide

May 11, 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 mater...

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UAH’s aerospace engineering research activities rank fifth in the United States

Jan 06, 2020

Five programs among the top 12 nationally. ...

Dr. Jessica A. Gaskin

UAH alumna Jessica A. Gaskin leads NASA Lynx X-ray Observatory Mission

Dec 18, 2019

Parental influence ignited Jessica Gaskin’s (’04 PhD Physics) appreciation of the wonders of space at an early age. ...

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Space Hardware Club on the hunt for terrestrial gamma rays in thunderstorms

Jul 01, 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 generate. ...