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ESS students win von Braun prizes

ESS students win von Braun prizes

Nov 20, 2014

Research can take a person to unexpected places. For instance, neither UAH students Jeanné le Roux nor Chris Phillips expected their summer undergraduate research projects to take them to the top of the recent von Braun Symposium undergraduate stu...


UAH student posters place at  GEO-Huntsville Forum contest

UAH student posters place at GEO-Huntsville Forum contest

Nov 14, 2014

Five projects were presented by students at UAH during a poster competition at the GEO-Energy Summit and Educational Forum 2014 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Nov. 12-13. Three UAH students brought home prizes from the poster session, which...


UAH Earth system science student named EPA fellow

UAH Earth system science student named EPA fellow

Nov 11, 2014

As a child growing up in central Alabama, Montana Etten-Bohm knew when she was 7 years old that she wanted to study the weather. "When there were tornado warnings, I'd be sitting outside trying to watch a tornado," said Etten-Bohm, who is from Pel...


UAH professor watching galaxy he discovered collide with cluster

UAH professor watching galaxy he discovered collide with cluster

Nov 11, 2014

A UAH assistant physics professor is on the first scientific team to use new observation equipment to observe the collision of a galaxy he discovered with a galaxy cluster - a kind of slow-motion cosmic car wreck. As part of an international group...


Von Braun Memorial Symposium sees record number of student poster entries

Von Braun Memorial Symposium sees record number of student poster entries

Oct 30, 2014

A record number of students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) entered the student poster competition at the seventh Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium held on the campus Oct. 27-29. A total of 43 students representing every coll...


Vice president for $2.5 billion  company returns to tour alma mater

Vice president for $2.5 billion company returns to tour alma mater

Oct 23, 2014

A UAH graduate who is now a corporate vice president and chief scientific officer of a company with $2.5 billion in annual medical device sales came back to his alma mater Wednesday for a campus tour. Stanton J. Rowe (BS, biological sciences, '75)...


UAH students present research at International Astronautical Congress

UAH students present research at International Astronautical Congress

Oct 10, 2014

Four students from UAH presented their research in the regular congress of the 65th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Toronto, Canada, from Sept. 29 to Oct. 3. UAH is a full member of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), t...


UAH receives $638,277 grant to recruit, retain students in the STEM fields

UAH receives $638,277 grant to recruit, retain students in the STEM fields

Oct 08, 2014

Job growth in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields over the next decade is expected to far outpace the national average, yet current estimates show that fewer and fewer high school students are interested in STEM careers. As...


New weather research facility boosts UAH’s severe weather capabilities

New weather research facility boosts UAH’s severe weather capabilities

Oct 02, 2014

UAH's new Severe Weather Institute - Radar and Lightning Laboratories (SWIRLL) is boosting the interest of prospective graduate atmospheric science students and reinforcing the university's increasing severe weather and lightning research prominenc...


UAH adds a front door to campus for economic development support

UAH adds a front door to campus for economic development support

Oct 01, 2014

UAH has expanded the scope of its research office to the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED) to acknowledge the office's broader economic roles at the state, regional and local levels. "It's an obvious fit,"...


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