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Fern genome research holds valuable agricultural & medical potential

Fern genome research holds valuable agricultural & medical potential

Sep 29, 2022

Dr. Paul Wolf, Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, professor, and plant geneticist, and graduate student Rijan Dhakal, among several other researchers, recently had their research published in Nature Plants on "dynamic genome evoluti...


An advisory board for the new high-performance computing hub will make making decision-making a collective experience, says Dr. Vladimir Florinski.

$1.95 million DOE grant funds UAH effort to better understand climate change

Sep 28, 2022

A nearly $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Biological & Environmental Research will fund efforts by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) team led by the director of the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) to ...


College of Science new faculty members after attending the first of four meetings as part of the Science Faculty Scholars program.

COS welcomes seventeen new faculty for fall 2022

Sep 23, 2022

The College of Science is proud to welcome several new faculty members: Dr. Chaity Banerjee Mukherjee Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Dr. Banerjee Mukherkee's research involves the intersection of AI, data science, m...


Aerospace Engineering grad, Neil Laya

UAH announces new Eminent Scholars in Atmospheric and Earth Science and Psychology

Sep 23, 2022

The University of Alabama in Huntsville announced two faculty members have been appointed to Eminent Scholar positions. These appointments became effective Aug. 10, 2022 ...


Undergraduate students show and explain their summer research projects in the atrium of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology.

Fifteen UAH students earn awards for Summer Community of Scholars research

Sep 20, 2022

Fifteen student research posters were selected for top Deans and Space Grant Award honors at the end-of-program Summer Community of Scholars (SCS) poster session held on Sept. 14 in the Shelby Center for Science and Technology at The University of ...


Vineetha Menon

IEEE Huntsville selects Dr. Vineetha Menon as Young Professional of the Year

Sep 20, 2022

Dr. Vineetha Menon, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been named by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEE...


Robert Preece

UAH has mission and science roles in LEAP project selected by NASA for further study

Sep 19, 2022

A proposed space mission involving The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been selected by NASA for the second time as part of a group of four for a possible future deployment. ...


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ESA Solar Orbiter confirms solar switchback origin theory by UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank

Sep 12, 2022

For the first time a solar switchback has been directly observed that confirms 2020 models by astrophysicist Dr. Gary Zank at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) that theorized how these surprising structures in the solar wind originate.h...


An advisory board for the new high-performance computing hub will make making decision-making a collective experience, says Dr. Vladimir Florinski.

Grant establishes UAH as hub for statewide university high-performance computing

Aug 30, 2022

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will become the Alabama hub for statewide high-performance computing (HPC) under a nearly $1 million two-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. ...


Earth System Science student Emily Wisinski named Goldwater Scholar

Earth System Science student Emily Wisinski named Goldwater Scholar

Aug 24, 2022

Emily Wisinski, an Honors student in the Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, a part of The University of Alabama System, has been named a 2022 Goldwater Scholar. ...


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