UAH / MSFC / SAO partnership creates instrument to fly in sun's corona on probe
Aug 09, 2018
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) have created and tested the only instrument that will sample the solar wind while exposed directly to it ...
Proposal for interstellar mapping probe awarded $496 million grant by NASA
Jul 19, 2018
A team of astrophysicists that includes Dr. Gary Zank, chair of the Department of Space Science and the director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been awarded $496 million b...
Can Billions of Corn Plants Affect the Weather in Nebraska?
Jul 11, 2018
When thinking of irrigation, most people imagine the huge dry valleys of California – Sacramento, San Joaquin, Coachella, Imperial – where so much of our food and fiber is grown. However, it is the state of Nebraska that slakes the thirst of mo...
Small-town stargazer pursues passion for planetary seismology with physics Ph.D.
Jun 28, 2018
Stargazing may have been the inspiration behind Deanna Phillips’ decision to earn her Ph.D. in planetary science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). ...
NESSF award funds student’s research into extreme space weather
Jun 18, 2018
Talwinder Singh, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Space Science at UAH, has been awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) for the 2018/2019 academic year. His proposal, entitled "Modeling Coronal Mass Ejections in the Solar W...
UAH researchers support project to detect particles from deep space on NASA balloon mission
Jun 01, 2018
A team of researchers at UAH has been awarded NASA funding as part of a large, five-year-long U.S. collaboration to fly an ultra-long duration balloon mission with three innovative ultra-sensitive telescopes to sense cosmic rays and neutrinos comin...
UAH students awarded $10,000 to compete in national cybersecurity challenge
May 22, 2018
A team of four students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) were among 10 finalists selected to participate in the third annual National Cyber Analyst Challenge and Conference (NCAC) this past spring: Justin Cole, Iain Deason, and Ky...
UAH researchers receive NASA Space Flight Awareness Team Award
May 17, 2018
On the morning of August 17, 2017, Rachel Hamburg, a master’s student in the Department of Space Science at UAH, received a text message from a fellow graduate student at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). "He told me...
UAH researchers get on consumers’ wavelength with InSb technology
Apr 27, 2018
A paper by UAH physics professor Dr. Don Gregory and UAH Ph.D. student Seyed Sadreddin Mirshafieyan was recently published in Nature, Scientific Reports. ...
UAH cave ecologist sheds light on subterranean species
Apr 26, 2018
As a cave ecologist, Dr. Matthew Niemiller is a frequent visitor to the dark, damp caves of the Southeastern U.S., where he chases millipedes, beetles, and other diminutive creatures through tight spaces. Hours spent breathing cool, heavy air and w...