Mentorship, funding, and research opportunities help increase minority participation in STEM Jul 18, 2018 The Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and named for late former congressman and civil rights attorney Louis Stokes, strives to increase both the quality and the quantit... 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... Ph.D. student receives prestigious optics and photonics education scholarship from SPIE Jul 10, 2018 Hemang Jani, a Ph.D. candidate in optical science and engineering at UAH, was one of only 85 students around the world to receive a 2018 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The s... Small-town stargazer pursues passion for planetary seismology with physics Ph.D. Jun 28, 2018 Stargazing may have been the inspiration behind Deanna Phillips’ decision to earn her Ph.D. in planetary science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). ... 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... 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... 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... 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.... 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... 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... 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54