UAH COS honors graduate Desalyn Johnson to enter UAB medical school, earn dual degrees
Apr 29, 2019
Desalyn Johnson discovered biology at the age of 12, and it changed her life forever. “We learned about the human body systems for the first time. All the organelles and cells that make up our bodies amazed me. ...
Novel else-tree classifier seeks to minimize misclassification in biological research studies
Jan 28, 2019
Truong Xuan Tran may have started his academic career as an electronic and telecommunication engineering major at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, but since coming to the U.S., he’s decided to follow his passion for computer scienc...
Five UAH programs ranked among the nation’s top 25 by NSF
Jan 10, 2019
The National Science Foundation released their latest survey of federally financed research expenditures, and five programs at UAH continue to be ranked among the top 25 in the nation. These include the following: ...
Seven get New Faculty Research awards
Dec 04, 2018
Seven new tenure-track faculty members at UAH will share $62,518 in 2018-19 New Faculty Research (NFR) awards from UAH's Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. ...
ASGC gears up to build first collaborative CubeSat to measure gamma-ray bursts
Nov 01, 2018
An effort by Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) members to design and build the first in a planned series of statewide collaborative cube satellites (CubeSats) will be the focus of a workshop Nov. 9 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Educator Training...
Alabama’s bioscience industry buoyed by research universities like UAH
Oct 03, 2018
The nation’s bioscience industry is rapidly becoming an economic driver according to a recent report from the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, generating $2 trillion in annual economic impact and employing more than 1.74 million people. ...
Climatologists obtain grant to develop new climate sensitivity information
Sep 18, 2018
Climatologists at UAH have received a grant from the United States Dept. of Energy to develop a new method of determining how the Earth’s climate is responding to greenhouse gases that they think will be more accurate than current methods. ...
UAH / MSFC / SAO partnership creates instrument to fly in sun's corona on probe
Aug 09, 2018
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) have created and tested the only instrument that will sample the solar wind while exposed directly to it ...
Proposal for interstellar mapping probe awarded $496 million grant by NASA
Jul 19, 2018
A team of astrophysicists that includes Dr. Gary Zank, chair of the Department of Space Science and the director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been awarded $496 million b...
Can Billions of Corn Plants Affect the Weather in Nebraska?
Jul 11, 2018
When thinking of irrigation, most people imagine the huge dry valleys of California – Sacramento, San Joaquin, Coachella, Imperial – where so much of our food and fiber is grown. However, it is the state of Nebraska that slakes the thirst of mo...