Cutting-edge research seeks to develop low-cost rapid diagnostic to detect pathogenic bacteria
Aug 28, 2018
If personalized medicine is on the cutting edge of disease diagnosis and treatment, Dr. Surangi Jayawardena’s research is on the cutting edge of personalized medicine. In fact, it’s hard to get much more pioneering than designing theranostic sy...
UAH researcher, others get Golden Eagle Award for quick fix to Gamma-ray Burst Monitor anomaly
Aug 23, 2018
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has announced it will present a Golden Eagle Award to Dr. Narayana Bhat, a research scientist at UAH Center for Space Plasma and Astronomic Research (CSPAR). ...
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...
Mentorship, funding, and research opportunities help increase minority participation in STEM
Jul 18, 2018
The Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and named for late former congressman and civil rights attorney Louis Stokes, strives to increase both the quality and the quantit...
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...
Ph.D. student receives prestigious optics and photonics education scholarship from SPIE
Jul 10, 2018
Hemang Jani, a Ph.D. candidate in optical science and engineering at UAH, was one of only 85 students around the world to receive a 2018 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The s...
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...
