UAH seeks science behind Sand Mountain tornadoes
Oct 20, 2016
Squeezed upward over the big toe of the Cumberland foothills, wind flowing north in front of a storm system accelerates over Sand Mountain in the northeastern corner of Alabama – until it hits the far edge. ...
UAH collaboration with NASA has ‘changed the textbooks’
Oct 20, 2016
If it weren’t for the unique and decades-long collaboration between NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and UAH, Dr. Michael Brigg’s research might not ever have gotten off the ground. ...
New UAH lab seeks answers to particle, cloud mysteries
Oct 06, 2016
A new laboratory at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is setting out to solve some of the fundamental mysteries about one of the common compounds floating in the atmosphere and what effects (if any) that compound has on climate change. ...
Cross-eyed instrument to help UAH test GLM, study lightning
Oct 06, 2016
Designed to test and validate a lightning sensor set for launch into geostationary orbit in November, a set of sensor "eyes" is nearing completion in labs at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. ...
Four receive UAH New Faculty Research awards
Oct 04, 2016
Four new tenure-track faculty members at UAH will share $39,701 in 2016-17 New Faculty Research awards from UAH's Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. ...
UAH team readies GLM test unit
Sep 15, 2016
Two pieces of hardware designed to test the next three Geostationary Lightning Mappers (GLM) before they launch have been completed in UAH's Earth System Science Center and shipped to Lockheed Martin. ...
10 UAH students receive NSF CyberCorps scholarships
Sep 13, 2016
Full cybersecurity scholarships have been awarded to 10 students at UAH from its five-year, $4.2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberCorps Scholarships for Service program. ...
Initiative broadens UAH engineering students’ exposure to cybersecurity
Sep 06, 2016
Engineers who graduate from UAH will have broad exposure to industrial control systems cybersecurity within their fields of study under a new initiative. ...
Honors student’s cubesat software earns him first place at Utah conference
Aug 22, 2016
Open-source software for simultaneous satellite orbital and attitude propagation developed by University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) student Kareem Omar has won him $10,000 and first place in a student paper competition. ...
Ex-bomber mechanic studies heat islands
Aug 09, 2016
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - While taking part in a new summer research program, former B-1B bomber mechanic Dawn White learned that when summer temperatures hit their peak, living alone is a bigger issue in San Jose, Ca., than it is in Huntsville. ...