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Talwinder Singh

NESSF award funds student’s research into extreme space weather

Jun 18, 2018

Talwinder Singh, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Space Science at UAH, has been awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) for the 2018/2019 academic year. His proposal, entitled "Modeling Coronal Mass Ejections in the Solar W...


Fresnel Lenses

UAH researchers support project to detect particles from deep space on NASA balloon mission

Jun 01, 2018

A team of researchers at UAH has been awarded NASA funding as part of a large, five-year-long U.S. collaboration to fly an ultra-long duration balloon mission with three innovative ultra-sensitive telescopes to sense cosmic rays and neutrinos comin...


Dr. Bruce Stallsmith and Zeina Sleiman

From fish to pharmaceuticals, UAH biology major reaps rewards after pursuing research opportunities

May 25, 2018

Zeina Sleiman couldn’t have predicted she’d end up waist-deep in the icy waters of Estill Fork when she took a job in the chemistry stockroom at UAH as a freshman. But that’s exactly where the junior biology major found herself last spring, c...


Angela Burke

Earth system science major finds flood of undergraduate research opportunities at UAH

May 24, 2018

It wasn’t hard for Angela Burke to narrow down her choices when she set out to earn her bachelor’s degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) field. "Nothing in STEM held my interest except meteorology!" she says with a laugh....


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UAH students awarded $10,000 to compete in national cybersecurity challenge

May 22, 2018

A team of four students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) were among 10 finalists selected to participate in the third annual National Cyber Analyst Challenge and Conference (NCAC) this past spring: Justin Cole, Iain Deason, and Ky...


Dr. Robert Preece and graduate students Matthew Stanbro and Rachel Hamburg

UAH researchers receive NASA Space Flight Awareness Team Award

May 17, 2018

On the morning of August 17, 2017, Rachel Hamburg, a master’s student in the Department of Space Science at UAH, received a text message from a fellow graduate student at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). "He told me...


Mia Milne

Mia Milne UAH Sociology senior recipient of Georgia State University Fellowship

May 01, 2018

Mia Milne has always been keenly interested in other people’s lives, and how they live. It wasn’t until her senior year of high school that she discovered the academic name for her avid curiosity — Social Sciences. ...


Don Gregory and Seyed Mirshafieyan

UAH researchers get on consumers’ wavelength with InSb technology

Apr 27, 2018

A paper by UAH physics professor Dr. Don Gregory and UAH Ph.D. student Seyed Sadreddin Mirshafieyan was recently published in Nature, Scientific Reports. ...


Dr. Niemiller

UAH cave ecologist sheds light on subterranean species

Apr 26, 2018

As a cave ecologist, Dr. Matthew Niemiller is a frequent visitor to the dark, damp caves of the Southeastern U.S., where he chases millipedes, beetles, and other diminutive creatures through tight spaces. Hours spent breathing cool, heavy air and w...


Shrestha

UAH student part of discovery that may improve treatment of type 1 diabetes

Apr 24, 2018

Shristi Shrestha is both literally and figuratively a long way from her days as an undergraduate student conducting research on medicinal plants. ...


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