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...
UAH hosts annual Girls’ Science and Engineering Day
Oct 24, 2018
Lisha Adams, Executive Deputy to the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) will give the welcome and make brief remarks to young girls attending UAH's Girl's Science and Engineering Day on Saturday, Nov. 3. ...
Novel space-detecting algorithm may prove to be a panacea for parking problems
Oct 19, 2018
As a busy graduate student at UAH, Sai Nikhil Reddy Mettupally doesn’t have a lot of time to waste driving around campus looking for a parking spot. And he’s not alone. ...
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. ...
NAS taps CSPAR director to head decadal survey for plasma physics
Sep 24, 2018
Dr. Gary Zank, director of UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and chair of the Department of Space Science, has been named by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to co-chair a committee performing a decadal survey for pla...
AGU scholarship recipient uses space-based observations to help define extreme weather
Sep 21, 2018
While the threat of severe weather may strike fear into the hearts of most people, Lena Heuscher is not most people. In fact, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science at UAH, she sees the arrival of high-impact events as an opp...
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. ...
Center for Applied Optics director joins VirTra Inc. as NASDAQ bell is rung
Sep 17, 2018
The director of the UAH Center for Applied Optics (CAO) was invited on the NASDAQ podium during the ringing of the market’s opening bell recently after the center developed a patented lens system for a rifle scope used with VirTra Inc.’s virtua...
CSPAR director to address NSF as distinguished speaker
Sep 13, 2018
Dr. Gary Zank, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and chair of the Department of Space Science at UAH, will speak on three current space missions of scientific discovery as a distinguished speaker at the National...
Applications now being accepted for the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program
Sep 02, 2018
UAH, a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, is requesting student applications for full scholarships to study cybersecurity through its renewed five-year, $5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberCorps...
