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...
UAH student part of discovery that may improve treatment of type 1 diabetes
Apr 24, 2018
Shristi Shrestha is both literally and figuratively a long way from her days as an undergraduate student conducting research on medicinal plants. ...
Large hailstone is now official state record, and 1st entry in Alabama’s new hail dataset
Apr 13, 2018
A large hailstone that fell in Cullman County on March 19 is now officially the largest recorded hailstone to fall in Alabama. ...
UAH researchers’ supercomputer simulations shed light on the heliospheric interface
Apr 03, 2018
"Three-dimensional Features of the Outer Heliosphere Due to Coupling between the Interstellar and Heliospheric Magnetic Field. V. The Bow Wave, Heliospheric Boundary Layer, Instabilities, and Magnetic Reconnection" originally appeared this past Aug...
Earth system science students at UAH serve as team members on NASA’s EarthKAM project
Mar 15, 2018
What does a hurricane look like from 400 kilometers above the Earth’s surface? What do images taken of the ice caps over the past few years tell us about how they’ve changed? These are the types of questions that middle school students in dozen...
Five UAH researchers receive nearly $200,000 for upcoming projects
Mar 13, 2018
Five faculty members and researchers at UAH have been awarded with $199,037 from the UAH Research Infrastructure Fund Program (RIF), an initiative of the Office for the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED). ...
UAH part of team awarded the Rossi Prize for high-energy astrophysics
Jan 31, 2018
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) team was selected by the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society as the 2018 recipient of the Rossi Prize. The team was recognized for their role in the first joint detection of...