VORTEX-SE tornado study brings 11 institutions to UAH
Mar 23, 2017
The mysteries of severe weather in the southeastern U.S. — and why tornadoes kill and injure more people here than any other part of the country — will get an in-depth probe this spring, as researchers from 11 research institutions around the c...
UAH undergrads to launch balloons for Vortex-SE tornado research
Mar 21, 2017
Bad weather in March, April and early May will bring a virtual cloud of weather balloons to North Alabama, as scientists from around the U.S. gather to study the challenges of predicting which storms spin up tornadoes across the Southeastern states...
Area’s success gains national notice, UAH helps Hawaii with cyber education
Mar 06, 2017
The University of Hawaii System (UHS) is establishing a broad-based cybersecurity education program there with help from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) by modeling the success of Huntsville and Madison County. ...
Hard work and opportunity enable UAH student to pursue career goals
Mar 03, 2017
Nicholas West’s classmates knew what they were doing when they voted him "Most Likely to Succeed" his senior year of high school. After receiving an Alabama Opportunity Scholarship Fund (AOSF) scholarship to attend the prestigious McGill-Toolen C...
Science of Music explored during Biomusicology presentation at UAH
Feb 20, 2017
It was Albert Einstein who said "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music." ...
Lightning sensor launch Saturday brings decades of work to fruition
Feb 15, 2017
In the mid 1990s, when NASA built two identical Lightning Imaging Sensors (just in case), Dr. Hugh Christian planned all along to send the flight spare into space. ...
Radar study targeting wind events at NASA, Air Force launch facilities
Feb 09, 2017
Rockets rolling to their launch towers at both the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida (and the people who work on them) may soon be a little bit safer, thanks to research in the Atmospheric Science Departmen...
Asia Oceania Geosciences Society names Zank its sixth honorary member
Feb 07, 2017
Dr. Gary Zank, chair of the Department of Space Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and director of its Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, has been named as the sixth-ever honorary member of the Asia Oceania Geosci...
UAH, HudsonAlpha team as part of national $31.5 million genetics effort
Feb 02, 2017
Research that will be done by UAH and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology will provide a framework by which scientists can better understand how our cells work. ...
CyberCorps Scholarships for Service Program application period opens
Jan 25, 2017
UAH is requesting student applications for full scholarships to study cyber security in the fourth year of a five-year, $4.2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberCorps Scholarships for Service (SFS) program. ...
