Orphan disease treatment “at a tipping point” thanks to advances in clinical pharmacology
Jul 03, 2019
When it comes to understanding and treating orphan diseases, "it’s the beginning of a new era," says Dr. Jerome Baudry, the Mrs. Pei-Ling Chan Professor of Biological Sciences at UAH. Until now, he explains, healthcare providers have tended to tr...
Space Hardware Club on the hunt for terrestrial gamma rays in thunderstorms
Jul 01, 2019
Student members of the Space Hardware Club at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are preparing to launch weather balloons into thunderstorms to try to directly observe the terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs) storms generate. ...
Now in its fifth year, shadowing program gives aspiring college students insight into undergraduate research opportunities
Jun 12, 2019
On June 6, 23 students from area high schools spent an afternoon at UAH, shadowing undergraduate participants in the university’s Summer Community of Scholars (SCS) Program. The SCS has over 80 members made up of undergraduates in the Research or...
Alaska wildfires and Iowa droughts topics for NASA DEVELOP presentations
Apr 03, 2019
Three students and one alumna at UAH recently made presentations to NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) officials regarding their research as part of the UAH-hosted MSFC node of NASA DEVELOP. ...
14 undergrads to present at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Apr 01, 2019
Fourteen undergraduates from the UAH have been invited to present their research and creative projects at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) to be held April 10-13 at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga. ...
Biomechanics research more than just academic for student athlete
Mar 11, 2019
As a student athlete at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Noah Pring has plenty of personal experience with the toll that playing sports at a high level can take on the human body. ...
Research Horizons Day and Research Week focus on student discoveries
Feb 28, 2019
For the fifth year, Research Horizons Day and Research Week will highlight student research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). ...
UAH only university to get two grants for student research from same NSF division
Jan 31, 2019
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is the only case this year in which one National Science Foundation division funded two site Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) at the same university. ...
ASGC gears up to build first collaborative CubeSat to measure gamma-ray bursts
Nov 01, 2018
An effort by Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) members to design and build the first in a planned series of statewide collaborative cube satellites (CubeSats) will be the focus of a workshop Nov. 9 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Educator Training...
U.S., international students compete at Von Braun Memorial Symposium poster session
Oct 30, 2018
University students from across America and internationally competed in the ninth annual Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium student poster competition hosted by UAH on Oct. 23-25. ...
