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UAH helps U.S. Army see through the rain

UAH helps U.S. Army see through the rain

Mar 08, 2016

Nathan Lawrence knew the experiment he was helping with involved monitoring artificial rain in a U.S. Army lab at Redstone Arsenal, so he wore a rain jacket. ...


Teledyne Brown Engineering provides  unique imaging data to new consortium

Teledyne Brown Engineering provides unique imaging data to new consortium

Mar 03, 2016

A new Alabama university consortium made possible through a donation by Teledyne Brown Engineering will provide state universities a unique opportunity to obtain imaging data from the International Space Station (ISS) for research. ...


NOAA, UAH, and partners kick off tornado study

NOAA, UAH, and partners kick off tornado study

Mar 02, 2016

Tornadoes are the target as researchers spend the next two months in northern Alabama collecting data as part of the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast, a research project coordinated by NOAA's Nati...


Dynamic cyber warning software looks promising

Dynamic cyber warning software looks promising

Mar 01, 2016

UAH researchers are seeing potential in a software application that could effectively warn users when they are about to give away sensitive personal information online. ...


In a U.S. first, UAH team measures lightning-produced ozone with Lidar

In a U.S. first, UAH team measures lightning-produced ozone with Lidar

Feb 16, 2016

Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have used UAH's Rocket-city Ozone (O3) Quality Evaluation in the Troposphere (RO3 QET) Lidar to measure ozone that was chemically produced by summertime lightning over the United Stat...


UAH’s Biology Society opens members’ eyes to opportunities in the field

UAH’s Biology Society opens members’ eyes to opportunities in the field

Feb 09, 2016

The Biology Society at UAH is back, and back in a big way. The once-defunct student-run organization re-formed last semester under the leadership of current president Christopher Sebastian, an Honors student and junior biology and compute...


Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction

Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction

Feb 11, 2016

For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the Earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein's 1915 general t...


UAH Karen Ames Memorial Lecture Series features renowned mathematician Edriss S. Titi

UAH Karen Ames Memorial Lecture Series features renowned mathematician Edriss S. Titi

Feb 01, 2016

Edriss S. Titi, a Professor of Mathematics at The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, will be the keynote speaker for the UAH Dr. Karen Ames Memorial Lecture Series on Friday, Feb. 12. ...


UAH's OLLI offers a new winter term course,  HudsonAlpha: The Power of Genetics

UAH's OLLI offers a new winter term course, HudsonAlpha: The Power of Genetics

Jan 15, 2016

UAH's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) will present a winter-term course entitled:, HudsonAlpha: The Power of Genetics, Mondays, Jan. 25 through Feb. 15. ...


Plasma researcher elevated to IEEE Fellow

Plasma researcher elevated to IEEE Fellow

Jan 14, 2016

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has elevated a researcher at UAH to IEEE Fellow. ...


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