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. ...
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. ...
