Doctoral student wins best presentation award Jan 29, 2015 Retha Mecikalski, a doctoral student in atmospheric science at UAH, won the best student presentation award at the seventh Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data during the recent 2015 American Meteorological Societ... Graduate student lands $400,000 laser technology grant for team Jan 27, 2015 UAH student landed a $400,000 competitive grant from the Dept. of Defense High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office (JTO) for a team effort to develop and test diode-pumped xenon laser technology for the U.S. military. UAH's Amanda Black Clark is ... UAH Cyber Corps students attend D.C. job fair Jan 20, 2015 UAH recently received its Cyber Corps certificate at the National Science Foundation/Dept. of Homeland Security/Office of Personnel Management job fair held in Washington, D.C. The first group of students in UAH's NSF-funded Scholarship for Servic... UAH now a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Jan 20, 2015 UAH has joined an elite group of higher education institutions by being named a National Security Agency/Dept. of Homeland Security Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense (NSA/DHS CAE IA/CD). Nationally at the end of ... Deadline for undergraduate research program approaches Jan 16, 2015 Undergraduate students at UAH have until Jan. 31 to apply for the 12th annual Expanding Horizons through Research Program, A Research or Creative Experience for Undergraduates (RCEU) summer program. ... UAH partners in integrated photonics institute effort Jan 13, 2015 UAH has partnered with four other research universities and a consortium of photonics industry leaders in an effort to win a $110 million federal contract for an integrated photonics institute that would be housed in the $70 million Florida Advance... Sudden jump in a storm's lightning might warn a supercell is forming Jan 07, 2015 A sudden jump in the number of lightning strikes inside a garden-variety thunderstorm might soon give forecasters a new tool for predicting severe weather and issuing timely warnings, according to research at UAH. The sudden increase in lightning ... Dr. Lingze Duan chosen as senior member of IEEE Dec 22, 2014 Dr. Lingze Duan, associate professor of physics at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been named a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Duan's current research focuses on ultrafast o... The dust devil and the details: Spinning up a storm on Mars Dec 18, 2014 Spinning up a dust devil in the thin air of Mars requires a stronger updraft than is needed to create a similar vortex on Earth, according to research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Early results from this research in UAH's ... Gamma-ray flashes from lightning are both more complex, common Dec 16, 2014 Early evidence shows there is nothing at all special about thunderstorms whose cloud-to-cloud lightning bolts produce flashes of gamma rays, according to research led by scientists at UAH. "These TGFs (terrestrial gamma-ray flashes) can come from ... 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72