UAH looks beyond the sky again with central space science role in two NASA missions
Feb 14, 2022
Fresh off successful direct involvement in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Parker Solar Probe (PSP) in roles that included optics, hardware, software, testing analytics, computational modeling and big data processing and disseminatio...
College of Science welcomes newest undergraduate Academic Advisor
Sep 22, 2020
Please welcome the College of Science’s newest undergraduate Academic Advisor, Jenny Bianchi Harvard. ...
UAH leads $3.2 million solar software model effort to aid in space weather predictions
Sep 01, 2020
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA have awarded $3.2 million over three years to development of open-source solar atmosphere and inner heliosphere software models useful to predict space weather, a project led by The University of Alaba...
Dr. Vineetha Menon selected as one of 20 Gulf Research Program early career fellows
Aug 10, 2020
Dr. Vineetha Menon, an assistant professor of computer science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been selected as one of 20 recipients of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Gulf Research Program (GRP) Ear...
NASA awards its Exceptional Public Achievement Medal to Dr. Michael Briggs
Aug 10, 2020
NASA has awarded its Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for sustained performance that embodies multiple contributions on NASA projects, programs or initiatives to Dr. Michael S. Briggs, an assistant director of the Center for Space Plasma and Ae...
UAH scientist lands $750,000 DOE EPSCoR grant for low temperature plasma research
Jul 28, 2020
A principal research scientist in The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Established Program to Stimul...
Baudry Lab finds 125 naturally occurring compounds with potential against COVID-19
Jun 18, 2020
The Baudry Lab at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has identified 125 naturally occurring compounds that have a computational potential for efficacy against the COVID-19 virus from the first batch of 50,000 rapidly assessed by a superc...
Dr. Shery Welsh accepts position as Director, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Jun 09, 2020
University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) alumna, Dr. Shery Welsh, who earned her PhD in Materials Sciences, has been tapped as Director, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in Arlington, Virginia. ...
Plasma science report co-chaired by Dr. Zank urges better federal agency coordination
May 28, 2020
Federal agencies should better coordinate their activities in plasma science and engineering (PSE) and jointly support new funding opportunities that take advantage of PSE’s overlaps with different science disciplines to maintain U.S. leadership ...
UAH Alumnus Elected as Chairman of NAC Executive Committee
May 15, 2020
James Miller, an alumnus of UAH master’s program in Operations Research, has been elected as chairman of the National Armaments Consortium (NAC) Executive Committee. ...
