Dr. Rainer Steinwandt Joins CoS as New Dean
Jan 15, 2021
In early January, Dr. Rainer Steinwandt joined the College of Science as Dean. He comes to us from Boca Raton, FL, where he chaired the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Steinwandt studied c...
Promising lab results in quest to find naturally occurring anti-COVID therapies
Nov 30, 2020
There are promising new laboratory results in an award-winning effort to find naturally occurring compounds that are therapeutic against the COVID-19 virus. ...
Computer Science Dept. adds Data Science & Web Programming Options
Nov 13, 2020
As a result of increasing demand, both by students and industry, the Computer Science Department at UAH has developed two new concentrations and a certificate that will be offered as of the Fall 2020 term: Data Science Concentration Data Science ...
UAH announces 2020 Foundation Staff Awards
Oct 27, 2020
The University of Alabama in Huntsville, a part of The University of Alabama System, announced the 2020 Foundation Staff Awards. The recipients this year are Maryann Bierer, Computer Science, Staff Excellence Award; Irma Johnson, Facilities & O...
NASA awards Exceptional Public Service Medal to ESSC’s Sue Estes
Oct 15, 2020
NASA has awarded its Exceptional Public Service Medal to Sue Estes, a research scientist at the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, who also has a role at ...
UAH research shows contract company’s products kill COVID surrogate virus
Sep 23, 2020
Contract testing done for North Carolina-based ESC Brands LLC at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has shown two of the company’s Zetrisil-based sanitizers are as effective as alcohol and a...
College of Science welcomes newest undergraduate Academic Advisor
Sep 22, 2020
Please welcome the College of Science’s newest undergraduate Academic Advisor, Jenny Bianchi Harvard. ...
UAH leads $3.2 million solar software model effort to aid in space weather predictions
Sep 01, 2020
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA have awarded $3.2 million over three years to development of open-source solar atmosphere and inner heliosphere software models useful to predict space weather, a project led by The University of Alaba...
Dr. Vineetha Menon selected as one of 20 Gulf Research Program early career fellows
Aug 10, 2020
Dr. Vineetha Menon, an assistant professor of computer science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been selected as one of 20 recipients of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Gulf Research Program (GRP) Ear...
NASA awards its Exceptional Public Achievement Medal to Dr. Michael Briggs
Aug 10, 2020
NASA has awarded its Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for sustained performance that embodies multiple contributions on NASA projects, programs or initiatives to Dr. Michael S. Briggs, an assistant director of the Center for Space Plasma and Ae...