UAH connects Huntsville to EarthKAM on space station
Nov 12, 2015
Personnel at UAH Information Technology and Systems Center (ITSC) and the Earth System Science program had major roles in relocating the Sally Ride EarthKAM project to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville from its former home at the Uni...
Meeting will plan storm research campaign
Nov 05, 2015
More than 100 of the top severe storms research scientists in the U.S., social scientists and weather service personnel will gather in Huntsville next week to help plan the largest severe weather research campaign ever conducted in the southern U.S...
Big demand for UAH undergraduate paper about disease detection device
Nov 04, 2015
A former undergraduate student who is now in a master's program at UAH was the lead author on a journal article that is one of ScienceDirect's 10 most downloaded chemistry articles among U.S. authors published since January 2014. ...
UAH students compete in the eighth Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium Student Poster Competition
Nov 02, 2015
The eighth Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium, "Space Exploration and Discovery: Expanding Human Knowledge," was recently held on the campus of UAH. The annual symposium is sponsored by the American Astronautical Society (AAS) and coordinated wit...
UAH professor helps develop new technique for locating genetic "switches"
Oct 23, 2015
Dr. Eric Mendenhall, assistant professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has discovered a new way of locating the genetic "switches" on specific points on DNA, called enhancers, that control when a gene is turned on ...
UAH student a surprise winner at the NOBCChE 2-Minute Drill Research Pitch
Oct 14, 2015
Samuel Nkrumah-Agyeefi set out for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) intending to keep a low profile. It was his first major conference since bec...
Amirazodi wins scholarship for locating villages by satellite
Oct 05, 2015
Suppose you have a drug that can eliminate a parasite that causes painful skin diseases and can lead to permanent blindness, but the people who need the drug are semi-nomadic villagers living in a deep and massive South American rain forest. ...
UAH teams for severe weather research
Oct 05, 2015
UAH, with its NASA and NOAA partners, is at "the epicenter" of research into techniques that will use data from a new generation of weather satellites to predict severe weather, with three new projects funded by NASA. ...
UAH welcomes Dr. Shuang Zhao, Assistant Professor with shared faculty appointments in CAHS and CoS
Sep 28, 2015
Shuang Zhao was "always sick" from the constant pollution from the thick, gray blanket of clouds hanging over her hometown, of Lifen, in the Shanxi Province located in northern China. According to a 2010 CNN online news article, Lifen was at the to...
UAH joins experimental group that could create a new field of science
Sep 24, 2015
UAH is now part of potentially groundbreaking experiments to detect and discover gravitational waves, a detection that could alter our physical understanding of the universe. ...
