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. ...
UAH space mission will explore terrestrial gamma ray flashes
Sep 09, 2015
UAH researchers are heading into space in 2018 to measure and better understand terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs) that originate from thunderstorms, a project that will bring hands-on experience to UAH's undergraduates. ...
UAH's Fourth Annual UAH Health Careers Day, Sept. 18
Sep 08, 2015
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will host the Fourth Annual Health Careers Day (HCD 15) on Friday, Sept. 18. HCD15 activities begin at 9:15 a.m., in the Shelby Center for Science and Technology on the UAH campus. The keynote speaker ...
UAH researchers plan conference to probe agricultural sustainability
Sep 02, 2015
Is the way the United States raises its food sustainable and reliable for our future? Agricultural migration and how the United States might plan for more sustainable food production will be the topics of an Oct. 21-23 workshop in Boulder, Colo., ...
UAH welcomes Dr. Shanhu Lee, associate professor of Atmospheric Science
Aug 31, 2015
Shanhu Lee was a small girl growing up in Yanji, China, when she became "obsessive" about collecting "pretty" photographs of space, rockets and oceans from The National Geographic magazine. Lee's photo collection eventually prompted her to make her...
