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Ultra-thin silicon films create vibrant optical colors

Ultra-thin silicon films create vibrant optical colors

Mar 23, 2015

A new technology, which creates a rainbow of optical colors with ultra-thin layers of silicon, has been recently demonstrated by a research group at UAH. ...


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Blast From the Past – Opening a Rocketry Time Capsule

Mar 19, 2015

UAH's Propulsion Research Center is preparing for its 25th anniversary next year, and the experimental roots of its faculty run even deeper. In 1956, 16-year-old Jimmy Blackmon did a very unusual thing for that time. He built a rocket from scratch ...


Morning is the time for powerful lightning

Morning is the time for powerful lightning

Mar 17, 2015

Wherever you are, if it's 8 a.m. it's time for the kids to be in school, time perhaps for a second cup of coffee, and time for the most powerful lightning strokes of the day. ...


UAH, CCI sponsor Be The Match® drives in memory of Leslie Vallely

UAH, CCI sponsor Be The Match® drives in memory of Leslie Vallely

Mar 10, 2015

To those who have been lucky enough to find one, a bone marrow match has been compared to winning the lottery. The statistics of finding a match break down like this: every four minutes in the U.S., someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer, that's ...


UAH’s “Let’s Pretend” hospital celebrates 30 years

UAH’s “Let’s Pretend” hospital celebrates 30 years

Mar 10, 2015

Let's Pretend Hospital is a first grade field trip like no other. The unique education program began 30 years ago by the UAH College of Nursing and Huntsville Hospital to help reduce the fear and anxiety that may accompany a hospital visit or a tr...


Award-winning researcher Robert Swap visits UAH  as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series

Award-winning researcher Robert Swap visits UAH as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series

Mar 02, 2015

Award-winning educator and researcher, Dr. Robert J. Swap, will be the guest speaker for UAH Distinguished Speaker Series on Tuesday, March 3. ...


Interest in weather more than just academic for UAH earth system science student

Interest in weather more than just academic for UAH earth system science student

Feb 11, 2015

Adam Clayton doesn't have the luxury of sleeping in late. Instead, he rises early each morning to tweet the weather forecast to his hundreds of followers. "You have to make a commitment to be up, especially if there's something big going on," says ...


UAH scientists ship instrument that will expand view of global lightning

UAH scientists ship instrument that will expand view of global lightning

Feb 11, 2015

An expanded view of lightning around the globe is coming closer for scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), thanks to a repurposed measuring instrument. UAH researchers have passed NASA qualifying inspections and shipped out a...


Anderson wins thesis competition

Anderson wins thesis competition

Feb 06, 2015

Eric Anderson's Earth system science master's thesis won a regional competition for the best use of digital technology in graduate research. The award includes a cash prize, plus travel expenses to receive the award at the Conference of Southern G...


14 get UAH New Faculty Research awards

14 get UAH New Faculty Research awards

Jan 30, 2015

Fourteen new tenure-track faculty members at UAH will share $127,213 in 2014-15 New Faculty Research (NFR) awards from UAH's Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. "We invested more UAH funds then we had originally ant...


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