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Released: 30-Jan-2019 10:05 AM EST
UAH professor says multigenerational teams could be an asset to companies
University of Alabama Huntsville

Dr. Pavica Sheldon, professor and chair of the Department of Communication Arts at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), offers insight into the four generations that comprise today's workforce.

Released: 30-Jan-2019 9:00 AM EST
UAH sodium ion battery research could power up renewable energy storage
University of Alabama Huntsville

Longer life and increased capacity for a new technology battery that could be the workhorse of a renewable energy grid are the goals of a study of the effect of charging cycles on the structure of anodes in sodium ion batteries.

Released: 10-Jan-2019 10:05 AM EST
Five UAH programs ranked among the nation’s top 25 by NSF
University of Alabama Huntsville

The National Science Foundation released their latest survey of federally financed research expenditures, and five UAH programs continue to be ranked among the top 25 in the nation.

   
3-Jan-2019 1:05 PM EST
Texas expert has big plans as UAH director of Unmanned Aerial Systems Programs
University of Alabama Huntsville

Jerry Hendrix has joined the Rotorcraft Systems Engineering and Simulation Center (RSESC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) as its director of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Programs responsible for UAS research.

3-Jan-2019 1:05 PM EST
Stronger knee joint repairs could result from CME chair’s research
University of Alabama Huntsville

Research underway at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) could provide stronger repairs for injured knees.

Released: 18-Dec-2018 10:05 AM EST
UAH researchers hope to bring clarity to challenges posed by contaminated water using plasma-based technology
University of Alabama Huntsville

Associate professor Dr. Gabriel Xu and Ph.D. candidate Ryan Gott are conducting research on plasma-based technology for water purification with funding from NSF EPSCoR CPU2AL.

Released: 11-Dec-2018 11:05 AM EST
UAH joins nationwide effort to increase college access, equity, and postsecondary attainment
University of Alabama Huntsville

UAH has joined with 130 other public universities and systems for "Powered by Publics: Scaling Student Success," an initiative organized by the APLU to increase college access and close the achievement gap.

Released: 29-Nov-2018 3:05 PM EST
The Alabama Plasma Internship Program Is Accepting Applications From Undergraduate Students at Southeastern U.S. Universities Through Jan. 18
University of Alabama Huntsville

NSF EPSCoR CPU2AL program in Huntsville, Alabama, is now accepting applications for their Alabama Plasma Internship Program from undergraduate students enrolled at institutions across the Southeastern U.S. (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico). The application deadline is Jan. 18, 2019, 1 p.m. CDT.

Released: 29-Nov-2018 1:05 PM EST
Corporate Internship Program on Plasma Technology Applications is accepting applications from students at AL partner institutions through Jan. 24
University of Alabama Huntsville

NSF EPSCoR CPU2AL program in Huntsville, Alabama, is now accepting applications from students at Alabama partner institutions for their Corporate Internship Program on Plasma Technology Applications. The application deadline is Jan. 24, 2019, 1 p.m. CDT.

Released: 16-Nov-2018 3:55 PM EST
Two Electives Offered by UAH's College of Nursing – Global Health and Medical Missions – Emphasize Importance of Cultural Competence
University of Alabama Huntsville

UAH’s College of Nursing offers two electives designed to help students cultivate their cultural competence: the Global Health Program and the Medical Missions Program.

5-Nov-2018 7:00 AM EST
UAH I²C firm RadioBro wins first prizein warfighter technology contest
University of Alabama Huntsville

RadioBro Corp., a firm at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Dorothy S. Davidson Invention to Innovation Center (I²C) has won a $10,000 first prize in a nationwide contest to improve field communications for U.S. warfighters.

   
Released: 19-Oct-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Novel Space-Detecting Algorithm May Prove to Be a Panacea for Parking Problems
University of Alabama Huntsville

Sai Nikhil Reddy Mettupally, a computer science master’s student at UAH, is developing a novel space-detecting algorithm that relies on Big Data analytics and deep-learning techniques to lead drivers directly to an empty parking spot.

   
Released: 18-Oct-2018 11:05 AM EDT
UAH to Host Space Commercialization Workshop on Oct. 23 from 2 to 6 p.m.
University of Alabama Huntsville

The workshop, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 23, from 2 to 6 p.m. in the Charger Union Theater on the UAH campus. It will feature two panel discussions and a keynote address from Kevin O’Connell, Director, Office of Space Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce.

Released: 9-Oct-2018 12:05 PM EDT
UAH’s Jackson County safe school technology tests may keep children statewide safer
University of Alabama Huntsville

Security technology tests at a Jackson County school in collaboration with The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Systems Management and Production (SMAP) Center could help keep Alabama’s schoolchildren safer if implemented statewide.

Released: 3-Oct-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Alabama’s bioscience industry buoyed by research universities like UAH
University of Alabama Huntsville

Thanks to research universities like UAH, Alabama is enjoying an unprecedented ramp up in its bioscience industry.

21-Sep-2018 2:05 PM EDT
NAS taps UAH CSPAR director to head decadal survey for plasma physics
University of Alabama Huntsville

Dr. Gary Zank, director of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), has been named to co-chair a committee performing a decadal survey for plasma physics.

17-Sep-2018 9:00 AM EDT
Climatologists obtain grant to develop new climate sensitivity information
University of Alabama Huntsville

Climatologists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have received a grant from the United States Dept. of Energy to develop a new method of determining how the Earth’s climate is responding to greenhouse gases that they think will be more accurate than current methods.

Released: 29-Aug-2018 12:05 PM EDT
UAH and UA Introduce State’s First Joint Nursing Science Ph.D. Program
University of Alabama Huntsville

Enrollment in a joint Nursing Science Ph.D. program offered by UAH and UA will begin in the summer of 2019.

Released: 22-Aug-2018 10:05 AM EDT
UAH wind tunnel will be used to study gas turbine hot section components
University of Alabama Huntsville

The wind tunnel at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Johnson Research Center (JRC) will be used to provide data to research gas turbine hot section components at engine conditions.

Released: 15-Aug-2018 11:05 AM EDT
New Elective Gives UAH Students Preview of the Ups and Downs of Critical Care Transport Nursing
University of Alabama Huntsville

Undergraduate students in Ron Bolen’s critical care transport nursing course at UAH learn how to stabilize and care for patients in the air, land, and sea transport environment.

   
8-Aug-2018 1:00 PM EDT
UAH/MSFC/SAO partnership creates instrument to fly in sun’s corona on probe
University of Alabama Huntsville

The UAH, MSFC and SAO have created and tested the only instrument that will sample the solar wind while exposed directly to it aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP)

Released: 31-Jul-2018 3:05 PM EDT
NLN Names UAH College of Nursing a 2018 Center of Excellence in Nursing Education
University of Alabama Huntsville

The College of Nursing at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) was named a National League for Nursing (NLN) 2018 Center of Excellence in recognition of its efforts to promote the pedagogical expertise of faculty.

Released: 19-Jul-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Proposal for Interstellar Mapping Probe Awarded $496 Million Grant by NASA
University of Alabama Huntsville

NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Probes program has awarded $496 million to fund the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe mission concept.

Released: 17-Jul-2018 10:05 AM EDT
NSF Grant Will Help Fund Engineering Professor’s Research of Bio-Inspired Micro-Air Vehicles
University of Alabama Huntsville

"Dynamics and Control of Long Range Micro Air Vehicles Inspired by Monarch Butterflies" receives NSF grant.

Released: 9-Jul-2018 4:05 PM EDT
Global Temperature Report: June 2018
University of Alabama Huntsville

Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.13 C per decade

Released: 20-Jun-2018 10:05 AM EDT
3-D Printing Offers Quick, Cost-Effective Solution to Help Train Aspiring Nurses
University of Alabama Huntsville

UAH SMAP Center student interns have created a variety of cost-effective 3-D printed task trainers to be used by students in UAH’s College of Nursing.

Released: 19-Jun-2018 12:05 PM EDT
UAH researchers develop novel technique to identify counterfeit flash memory
University of Alabama Huntsville

Assistant professor Dr. M. Tauhidur Rahman, Ph.D. students Sadman Sakib and Preeti Kumari, assistant professor Dr. Biswajit Ray, and Ph.D. student M.S. Bahar Talukder, all of UAH’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have developed a novel method of detecting counterfeit flash memory with close to 100 percent confidence using program-erase time.

Released: 7-Jun-2018 4:50 PM EDT
Global Temperature Report: May 2018
University of Alabama Huntsville

Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.13 C per decade

Released: 2-May-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Global Temperature Report: April 2018
University of Alabama Huntsville

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade

Released: 27-Apr-2018 2:05 PM EDT
UAH Researchers Get on Consumers’ Wavelength with Indium Antimonide Technology
University of Alabama Huntsville

A paper by UAH physics professor Dr. Don Gregory and UAH Ph.D. student Seyed Sadreddin Mirshafieyan was recently published in "Nature, Scientific Reports."

Released: 27-Apr-2018 2:05 PM EDT
UAH Cave Ecologist Sheds Light on Subterranean Species
University of Alabama Huntsville

Dr. Matthew Niemiller, an assistant professor of ecology at UAH, conducts field research in caves throughout the Tennessee Valley and around the country to better understand species that are rare, threatened, endangered, or relatively unknown.

Released: 25-Apr-2018 5:00 PM EDT
UAH Low-Cost Weather Stations to Join Irrigation/Weather Study
University of Alabama Huntsville

A grid of low-cost weather stations built at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will track temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity and other weather variables across parts of Nebraska this summer to help scientists learn more about how large-scale irrigation might be changing the weather.

Released: 24-Apr-2018 12:05 PM EDT
UAH Student Part of Discovery That May Improve Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes
University of Alabama Huntsville

UAH Ph.D. student Shristi Shrestha is honing her skills in single-cell gene expression as a graduate research assistant at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. She recently served as first co-author of a paper that was published in the journal "Cell Reports."

Released: 4-Apr-2018 3:30 PM EDT
Global Temperature Report: March 2018
University of Alabama Huntsville

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade

Released: 4-Apr-2018 12:05 PM EDT
UAH Professor’s Early-Stage Proposal for “Marsbees” Selected to Receive NASA Funding
University of Alabama Huntsville

Dr. Chang-kwon Kang’s proposal on Marsbees was one of only 25 selected for NASA’s 2018 Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which funds early-stage technology that has the potential to revolutionize future space exploration.A proposal on Marsbees submitted by Dr. Chang-kwon Kang, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), was one of only 25 selected to receive a 2018 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) award.

Released: 3-Apr-2018 4:50 PM EDT
UAH Researchers’ Supercomputer Simulations Shed Light on the Heliospheric Interface
University of Alabama Huntsville

Dr. Nikolai Pogorelov is a professor in UAH’s Department of Space Science and a researcher with UAH’s Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research. His co-authored paper shows that the disruption of the heliopause can be attributed to magnetohydrodynamic instability, possibly accompanied by magnetic reconnection."Three-dimensional Features of the Outer Heliosphere Due to Coupling between the Interstellar and Heliospheric Magnetic Field.

Released: 3-Apr-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Weather Satellite Wanders Through Time, Space, Causing Stray Warming to Contaminate Data
University of Alabama Huntsville

Drs. John Christy and Roy Spencer of UAH's Earth System Science Center used a difference-minimizing algorithm to compensate for spurious data collected by a drifting weather satellite, NOAA-14.

Released: 22-Mar-2018 11:05 AM EDT
UAH English Professor’s Work Shows That Poe and Schreber Are Birds of a Feather
University of Alabama Huntsville

Dr. Joe Conway’s latest research project flies in the face of his past work by migrating toward bird mimicry in literature. His essay, “Words Are for the Birds: ‘Non-Reasoning Creatures Capable of Speech’ in the Writings of Schreber and Poe,” appears in “Mocking Bird Technologies,” edited by Christopher GoGwilt and Melanie D. Holm and published by Fordham University Press.

Released: 15-Mar-2018 6:05 PM EDT
UAH Nursing Professor Helps Older Adults Stay Standing
University of Alabama Huntsville

Dr. Amy Hunter, a full-time faculty member and a part-time practitioner, is focused on improving the quality of care for older adults.

Released: 5-Mar-2018 5:05 PM EST
Global Temperature Report: February 2018
University of Alabama Huntsville

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade

Released: 28-Feb-2018 4:05 PM EST
GOES-S Weather Satellite Launch Will Provide Unique View of Lightning Over the Western Hemisphere
University of Alabama Huntsville

UAH scientists are looking forward to getting a unique stereo view of lightning in storms over the U.S. with the launch of the GOES-S weather satellite.

Released: 2-Feb-2018 4:05 PM EST
Global Temperature Report: January 2018
University of Alabama Huntsville

Temperatures fall as La Niña’s effects are felt

Released: 31-Jan-2018 2:50 PM EST
UAH Part of Team Awarded the Rossi Prize for High-Energy Astrophysics
University of Alabama Huntsville

The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) team was selected by the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society as the 2018 recipient of the Rossi Prize. The team was recognized for their role in the first joint detection of gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the same cosmic event – the spectacular smashup of two neutron stars in a distant galaxy.

Released: 29-Jan-2018 11:05 AM EST
Two UAH Graduate Students Take First Place in Prestigious Embedded Security Challenge
University of Alabama Huntsville

Thiago Alves and Rishabh Das, two UAH cybersecurity Ph.D. students, placed first in the North American Embedded Security Challenge at the 14th annual Cyber Security Awareness Week in New York City this past November.

Released: 3-Jan-2018 4:15 PM EST
Global Temperature Report: December 2017
University of Alabama Huntsville

2017 was third warmest year in satellite record

Released: 6-Dec-2017 5:05 PM EST
UAH Professors Find “Widespread Misattribution” in Research Publications and Grant Proposals
University of Alabama Huntsville

UAH business professors find a pattern of widespread misattribution in publications and in research proposals with significant variation by academic rank, discipline, sex, publication history, co-authors, and other factors.

Released: 5-Dec-2017 3:40 PM EST
Global Temperature Report: November 2017
University of Alabama Huntsville

Global temperatures drop; November still warm

Released: 30-Nov-2017 1:05 PM EST
UAH Engineering Student Uses 3-D Printing to Successfully Build and Test Hall-Effect Thruster
University of Alabama Huntsville

UAH master’s student Ethan Hopping, who now works at Blue Origin, and UAH professor Dr. Gabe Xu partnered to design and test a Hall-effect thruster with a 3-D printed channel and propellant distributor.



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