ESSC research scientist to be panelist at European Innovation Festival in Milan
Jul 08, 2019
Africa Flores, a research scientist at UAH Earth System Science Center (ESSC), is a panelist at the inaugural "Fast Company" European Innovation Festival July 9-10 in Milan, Italy. ...
Space Hardware Club on the hunt for terrestrial gamma rays in thunderstorms
Jul 01, 2019
Student members of the Space Hardware Club at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are preparing to launch weather balloons into thunderstorms to try to directly observe the terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs) storms generate. ...
Orphan disease treatment “at a tipping point” thanks to advances in clinical pharmacology
Jul 03, 2019
When it comes to understanding and treating orphan diseases, "it’s the beginning of a new era," says Dr. Jerome Baudry, the Mrs. Pei-Ling Chan Professor of Biological Sciences at UAH. Until now, he explains, healthcare providers have tended to tr...
Chemistry professor tapped to support NSF programs for prestigious one-year assignment
Jun 14, 2019
Dr. Emanuel Waddell, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and the associate dean of the College of Science at UAH, has been selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to serve as director of the Centers for Excellence in Sci...
Dr. John Christy named interim dean of UAH College of Science
May 21, 2019
Effective June 1, 2019, Dr. John Christy will serve as Interim Dean of the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). ...
VORTEX-SE delivers tornado formation research
May 09, 2019
Scientists at UAH are publishing research about tornado formation resulting from the multiyear Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment Southeast (VORTEX-SE) program. ...
UAH Earth system scientists produce online forest remote sensing handbook
May 02, 2019
Four researchers at the UAH Earth System Science Center (ESSC) have lead and editorial roles in the production of a new open-access NASA edited volume entitled "Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Handbook: Comprehensive Methodologies for Forest Monitor...
UAH COS honors graduate Desalyn Johnson to enter UAB medical school, earn dual degrees
Apr 29, 2019
Desalyn Johnson discovered biology at the age of 12, and it changed her life forever. “We learned about the human body systems for the first time. All the organelles and cells that make up our bodies amazed me. ...
Novel else-tree classifier seeks to minimize misclassification in biological research studies
Jan 28, 2019
Truong Xuan Tran may have started his academic career as an electronic and telecommunication engineering major at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, but since coming to the U.S., he’s decided to follow his passion for computer scienc...
Five UAH programs ranked among the nation’s top 25 by NSF
Jan 10, 2019
The National Science Foundation released their latest survey of federally financed research expenditures, and five programs at UAH continue to be ranked among the top 25 in the nation. These include the following: ...