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Projection system to study insect vision  could lead to new navigational aids

Projection system to study insect vision could lead to new navigational aids

Apr 08, 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 system. ...


Five UAH programs ranked among the nation’s top 25 by NSF

Five UAH programs ranked among the nation’s top 25 by NSF

Jan 10, 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 following: ...


Mary Bates

UAH alumna Mary W. Bates gives solid advice for when “life throws curveballs”

Oct 24, 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 books. ...


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...


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