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UAH has significant role in LEAP, a mission selected for NASA flight review

Mar 23, 2020

In collaboration with Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at UAH has a significant role in LEAP – the LargE Area burst Polarimeter – a mission that is one of four proposals approved by...


Jerome Baudry

UAH joins supercomputing effort to find drugs effective against COVID-19

Mar 23, 2020

A professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at UAH is part of an effort led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee that applies the power of supercomputers to screen compounds for effectiveness against the pandemic COVID-19 v...


Eric Mendenhall

OK, we’re dealing with COVID-19, but what’s a virus in the first place?

Mar 20, 2020

Everybody knows by now that the United States and the world are in the grip of one of the dangerous coronaviruses called COVID-19, but what’s a virus and how can it make us feel ill? Why do our bodies react the way they do? Are viruses alive? ...


Blake Parker presenting the Parker Space Probe model to Dr. Gary Zank

Unique alumni-crafted model of Parker Solar Probe finds CSPAR home

Feb 26, 2020

A unique model of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is now on permanent display at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) in the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) in C...


2020 SEB ASM Annual Meeting. 105th Meeting of the Southeastern Branch of the American Society for Microbiology. February 21-23, 2020. The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Microbiologists from six southeastern states gather at UAH for the regional ASM conference

Feb 18, 2020

The University of Alabama in Huntsville will host the 105th Southeast Branch meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (SEB ASM) on February 21-23. The meeting will celebrate advances of microbiological research in states in the southeastern...


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CSPAR has central modeling role in IMAP mission to launch in 2024

Feb 10, 2020

The Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at UAH will be central to the modeling and data crunching that follow the scheduled launch of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission in 2024. ...


Solar Orbiter

UAH and Zank prep for massive data stream following coming launch of ESA Solar Orbiter

Feb 04, 2020

UAH will have a major role in exploring an expected massive data stream that will follow launch of the European Space Agency (ESA) Solar Orbiter, a mission that will fly over the sun’s poles and on which UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank is a co-primary inve...


childhood immunity

Professors to study whether socioeconomics and environment affect child immunity

Feb 03, 2020

Two professors at UAH have teamed up with a genetic sequencing firm at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology to try to understand whether the socioeconomic status of parents and environmental exposures have an impact on the developing immune ...


Inspiration Fuels the National Space Club

Inspiration Fuels the National Space Club

Jan 31, 2020

Inspiration fuels the National Space Club — Huntsville and drives the dedicated people who run it, making UAH fortunate to have such a successful and longstanding relationship with the organization. ...


Eight new tenure-track faculty receive research awards

Eight new tenure-track faculty receive research awards

Jan 23, 2020

Eight new tenure-track faculty at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have been awarded a total of $79,622 in 2019-20 New Faculty Research (NFR) awards from UAH's Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPR). ...


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