UAH-developed public health tool predicts effects of a pandemic and mitigation efforts
Aug 10, 2022
Epidemiologists and public health officials have a new predictive tool to analyze the course of pandemics, thanks to a mathematical formula derived by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) professor in partnership with a collaborator who is a...
UAH-developed ultrasensitive optical sensing instrument has broad medical, science uses
Aug 04, 2022
In research that could broadly benefit science, medicine and engineering, a new kind of ultrasensitive optical sensing instrument has been developed by a doctoral student at UAH. ...
New infrastructure near NWS station likely cause of record July temperature readings, UAH scientist says
Aug 03, 2022
Additions of heat-capturing infrastructure around the National Weather Service (NWS) weather station at Huntsville International Airport are likely the cause for temperature data that NWS says shows the city had the hottest July on record, says Ala...
$500,000 grant funds UAH professor’s study of origin of tiny particles that can make clouds
Jul 27, 2022
In a study of tiny precursors to clouds that will provide scientists with more comprehensive information to use in global climate models, a researcher at UAH is trying to find out how ultrafine particles are created in an urban atmosphere. ...
Student overcomes setbacks of war to solve a difficult quantum optical system problem
Jul 21, 2022
In work applicable to super-fast quantum computing and quantum optics, undergraduate research by a recent graduate in physics and mathematics at UAH has simplified a difficult mathematical problem to further illuminate the behavior of two-level qua...
UAH co-hosts ALSAMP conference to boost underrepresented student participation in STEM
Jul 13, 2022
UAH recently co-hosted the 2022 Spring Research Conference for the Alabama Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ALSAMP). ...
Female urinary tract lactobaccilli can kill pathogenic bacteria, UAH research shows
Jul 06, 2022
Lactobacilli that live in the human female urinary tract’s microbiome are competitive and kill nearby pathogenic bacteria, according to the first study of its kind by a team led by microbiologist Dr. Tanya Sysoeva of UAH. ...
New discoveries about enzyme’s metabolic role may lead to better diabetes treatments
Jun 27, 2022
A treatment for conditions that underlie the development of Type 2 diabetes could evolve from new basic research discoveries at UAH. ...
Effect of dust and smoke on Western drought ‘likely similar’ to African study, author says
Jun 22, 2022
A UAH student says his examination of the combined influence of dust and smoke on surface atmosphere temperatures in sub-Saharan Africa likely applies to conditions in the American West, now in its worst drought in over 1,200 years. ...
Paper co-authored by Dr. Christy on climate model warming bias is a top 10 download
Jun 21, 2022
A research paper finding a significant global warming bias in climate models that was co-authored by the interim vice president for research and economic development at UAH has been cited by John Wiley & Sons Inc. as a top 10 download over the past...