Hemang Jani

Ph.D. student receives prestigious optics and photonics education scholarship from SPIE

Jul 10, 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 s...

Fresnel Lenses

UAH researchers support project to detect particles from deep space on NASA balloon mission

Jun 01, 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 comin...

Hemang and Dipen

Two UAH graduate students attend prestigious Siegman International School on Lasers

Nov 08, 2017

Dipen Barot and Hemang Jani were selected to attend the prestigious Siegman International School on Lasers in 2016 and 2017, respectively. ...

Corona flares from the sun

Website highlights campus eclipse activities

Aug 11, 2017

Your one-stop location for solar eclipse happenings at UAH is a website called The UAH Solar Eclipse Project. ...

Sarthak Dasadia

UAH's Sarthak Dasadia completes prestigious New York Data Incubator program

Jun 01, 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) 2017. ...

Mo Brooks

UAH doctoral student discusses photonics, science on Capitol Hill

May 23, 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 research. ...

Will Shankles

UAH student Will Shankles graduates with dual degree in Philosophy and Physics

Apr 24, 2017

"UAH was one of a few universities I applied to coming out of high school," said graduating senior Will Shankles. "Growing up in the Birmingham area, I was aware of UAH's strong reputation in physics and science education. The strong physics depart...

payload for NASA’s Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO) Super Pressure Balloon

UAH supplies critical systems for NASA super pressure balloon

Apr 10, 2017

Critical systems for NASA’s Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO) Super Pressure Balloon have been supplied and calibrated by UAH. ...

NASA reviewing UAH-led proposal for next-generation lunar astrophysics mission

NASA reviewing UAH-led proposal for next-generation lunar astrophysics mission

Jan 19, 2017

Next-generation astrophysics research using the moon as home base and UAH as its world-class data center are the goals of a multiyear, $237 million NASA satellite mission proposed by a UAH astrophysicist’s collaborative group. ...

UAH collaboration with NASA has ‘changed the textbooks’

UAH collaboration with NASA has ‘changed the textbooks’

Oct 20, 2016

If it weren’t for the unique and decades-long collaboration between NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and UAH, Dr. Michael Brigg’s research might not ever have gotten off the ground. ...