AES students deploy into Hurricane Ida
Aug 28, 2021
As of Friday, August 27, Hurricane Ida continues to steadily strengthen in the northwest Caribbean, south of Cuba. This system will continue northwest entering the southeastern Gulf late Friday and into early Saturday, with continued strengthening ex...
Alumni Spotlight: Desalyn Johnson '19
Aug 24, 2021
Desalyn Johnson (B.S. Biological Sciences, Spring 2019) has been awarded the 2021 Sara Crews Finley, M.D. Endowed Leadership Scholarship. “I am extremely humbled to be chosen for this award,” Johnson says. “I am grateful to my parents for thei...
NASA's successful MaGIXS launch led by COS alumni
Aug 20, 2021
Led by Dr. Amy Winebarger (Ph.D., Physics, 2000 | M.S., Physics, 1997) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on July 30, 2021, the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) payload was successfully launche...
Two proposals from space science doctoral students achieve NASA FINESST awards
Aug 17, 2021
Two doctoral students’ proposals in The University of Alabama in Huntsville Department of Space Science have been awarded highly competitive, three-year NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grants. ...
Small satellites have role assessing atmospheric particulates, research shows
Aug 18, 2021
– Small commercial satellites have a role in atmospheric particulates investigations, according to recently published thesis research by a research associate with the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. ...
3 million asthmatics and over half of U.S. affected by wildfire smoke, says UAH research
Aug 16, 2021
An estimated 3 million asthmatics and over half of the states in the United States are being affected by particulates that are blowing over them from fires in Canada and the western U.S., according to new research at The University of Alabama in Hu...
UAH’s Baudry Lab part of half-million-dollar efforts to target COVID with drug therapies
Jul 29, 2021
Two different strategies to discover and perfect pharmaceuticals active against the COVID-19 virus have attracted a half million dollars in research funding to support five institutions, including the Baudry Lab at The University of Alabama in Hunt...
Paper on climate model’s warming bias co-authored by Dr. Christy is top download
Jul 26, 2021
A research paper that found a significant warming bias globally in the newest climate models and was co-authored by the interim vice president for research and economic development at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been cited by ...
Optics doctoral student Nabil Hoque is one of 78 globally to receive SPIE scholarship
Jul 15, 2021
Nabil Md Rakinul Hoque, a doctoral candidate in optical science and engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), is one of 78 students globally to receive a 2021 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship. ...
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...