$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. ...
Two UAH scientists play major roles in NASA’s Phase II funding of heliophysics DRIVE center
Apr 14, 2022
Two UAH space scientists who are research directors in a heliophysics DRIVE Science Center at Boston University (BU) in which UAH is a partner had significant roles developing a proposal that resulted in a five-year Phase II NASA grant for that cen...
Could a refined UAH space weather model help scientists find life elsewhere?
Mar 28, 2022
A refinement to a space weather model developed by a center director at UAH could help scientists check out which planets outside our solar system are likely to have someone home. ...
Number of NSF CAREER awards won over three years puts UAH in elite group nationally
Mar 09, 2022
The number of coveted National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards won by UAH faculty in the past three years puts UAH among an elite group of very high research universities nationally. ...
UAH physicist will study super-hot solar processes with $616,000 NSF CAREER grant
Feb 09, 2022
A solar physicist at UAH has been awarded a five-year, $616,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award to study how solar flares explosively release magnetic energy and create energetic particles. ...
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...
Research on interactions in auroras wins doctoral student second in poster contest
Jul 12, 2021
A second-year doctoral student in space science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, placed second in a poster contest at the virtual Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions ...
Katherine Davidson takes 2nd place in prestigious 2021 CEDAR workshop
Jul 08, 2021
The Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Program is a focused Global Change program sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Division to enhance the capability of groun...
When the James Webb telescope launches, 25 years of UAH R&D involvement will soar
Jul 07, 2021
After a scheduled November launch, when NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) achieves orbit and unfurls the 18 gold-coated beryllium segments of its 6.5-meter primary mirror, over two decades of crucial UAH partnership in the project will als...
