New plasma stratification computer model has manufacturing, space science uses
Dec 12, 2022
Manufacturers using plasma processes in semiconductor production and materials processing will have a new tool to avoid undesirable plasma stratifications using a computer striations model developed by UAH and CFD Research Corp. ...
UAH has mission and science roles in LEAP project selected by NASA for further study
Sep 19, 2022
A proposed space mission involving The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been selected by NASA for the second time as part of a group of four for a possible future deployment. ...
ESA Solar Orbiter confirms solar switchback origin theory by UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank
Sep 12, 2022
For the first time a solar switchback has been directly observed that confirms 2020 models by astrophysicist Dr. Gary Zank at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) that theorized how these surprising structures in the solar wind originate.h...
Aerospace Engineering grad Neil Laya wins Alabama Space Grant Consortium Fellowship
Sep 01, 2022
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has announced that Neil Laya, an aerospace engineering graduate student, has been awarded an Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) Fellowship. Laya also was recently recognized for receiving Honorable M...
Grant establishes UAH as hub for statewide university high-performance computing
Aug 30, 2022
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will become the Alabama hub for statewide high-performance computing (HPC) under a nearly $1 million two-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. ...
Alumna Tia Ferguson recalls the time she trekked to the South Pole to retrieve a NASA experiment
Jul 11, 2022
In 2008, Tia Ferguson, (MS, electrical engineering, ’03) ventured to a place so remote and forbidding, even veteran world travelers can be daunted by the prospect of such a journey. ...
Oak Ridge Associated Universities selects Dr. Lingling Zhao for Powe Award
Jun 02, 2022
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) has selected Dr. Lingling Zhao, an assistant professor of space science at UAH, for a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. ...
$20 million UAH-led partnership to boost Alabama in plasma science and engineering
May 16, 2022
Nine Alabama universities and one private firm are partnered in a new $20 million, five-year effort led by UAH to develop transformative technologies in plasma science and engineering (PSE) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Establishe...
$2.3 million NSF grant boosts UAH effort to predict harmful solar weather events
May 05, 2022
When big blasts of energy from the sun envelop the Earth, they can be so strong that a 2015 event so weakened Earth’s protective magnetic field that it penetrated to the atmosphere, posing a threat to everything from circling space station astron...
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. ...