Latest news from University of Alabama Huntsville on News en-us Copyright 2025 News 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/uah-development-of-sweap-instruments-helps-parker-solar-probe-win-2024-collier-trophy/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-development-of-sweap-instruments-helps-parker-solar-probe-win-2024-collier-trophy/?sc=rsin Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:50:35 EST The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument suite developed by researchers at The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and the Marshall Space Flight Center for NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) has helped the PSP earn the coveted 2024 Robert J. Collier Trophy. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-researcher-wins-500k-nsf-career-award-to-advance-problem-formulation-in-systems-engineering/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-researcher-wins-500k-nsf-career-award-to-advance-problem-formulation-in-systems-engineering/?sc=rsin Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:00:37 EST Dr. Hanumanthrao "Rao" Kannan, an assistant professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to reimagine foundational aspects of systems engineering, an interdisciplinary field that involves designing, integrating and managing complex systems throughout their lifecycle. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/fighting-fire-with-science-uah-and-nasa-forge-groundbreaking-fire-management-collaboration-in-south-alabama/?sc=rsin /articles/fighting-fire-with-science-uah-and-nasa-forge-groundbreaking-fire-management-collaboration-in-south-alabama/?sc=rsin Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:45:06 EST Researchers from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, have partnered with the Alabama Forestry Commission and NASA's FireSense initiative to study prescribed burns in the Geneva State Forest in South Alabama. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-college-of-business-professor-recognized-as-highly-cited-researcher/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-college-of-business-professor-recognized-as-highly-cited-researcher/?sc=rsin Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:00:47 EST Dr. Xiaotong Li, a professor in the College of Business at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been named to a list of the world's most cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics, a global provider of analytics in academia and government. The Highly Cited Researchers list identifies researchers who have published multiple papers that are frequently cited, placing them in the top one percent for citations in their fields over the past decade. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-researcher-awarded-early-career-fellowship-to-study-changes-in-water-quality-in-mobile-watershed/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-researcher-awarded-early-career-fellowship-to-study-changes-in-water-quality-in-mobile-watershed/?sc=rsin Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:40:54 EST Dr. Paresh Samantaray, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering at The University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH), has won a National Academies Early-Career Research Fellowship to study changes over time in the water quality of the Dog River Watershed in Mobile, Ala. The region encompasses a 95-square-mile area that drains into Mobile Bay and the Gulf coast. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-breakthrough-enables-the-measurement-of-local-dark-matter-density-using-direct-acceleration-measurements-for-the-first-time/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-breakthrough-enables-the-measurement-of-local-dark-matter-density-using-direct-acceleration-measurements-for-the-first-time/?sc=rsin Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:30:34 EST Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), and her team have pioneered the use of gravitational acceleration measurements of binary pulsars to help illuminate just how much dark matter there is in the Milky Way galaxy and where it resides. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/interdisciplinary-uah-faculty-group-wins-1-35m-army-grant-to-advance-human-interactions-with-artificial-intelligence/?sc=rsin /articles/interdisciplinary-uah-faculty-group-wins-1-35m-army-grant-to-advance-human-interactions-with-artificial-intelligence/?sc=rsin Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:55:29 EST A faculty group from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been awarded a $1.35 million grant from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Analysis Center to support advancements in human-systems integration analysis and artificial intelligence (AI). The interdisciplinary venture represents researchers from the departments of industrial and systems engineering, psychology and computer science at UAH, a part of The University of Alabama System, working together to improve human-AI interactions in AI-centric autonomous systems. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-physics-undergrad-co-authors-breakthrough-study-in-the-journal-nature-probing-motion-of-gas-in-a-galaxy-cluster/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-physics-undergrad-co-authors-breakthrough-study-in-the-journal-nature-probing-motion-of-gas-in-a-galaxy-cluster/?sc=rsin Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:40:11 EST Kokoro Hosogi, a physics student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has achieved a rare honor for an undergraduate: her contributions are being recognized in a study published in the journal Nature. The researcher recently supported the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) studying celestial X-ray objects to help illuminate why gas at the core of the Centaurus galaxy cluster approximately 170 million light years away is not generating young new stars as rapidly as predicted, a discovery with important implications on the evolution of galaxy clusters. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-interdisciplinary-collaboration-with-mazda-toyota-manufacturing-seeks-to-drive-innovation-in-workforce-development/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-interdisciplinary-collaboration-with-mazda-toyota-manufacturing-seeks-to-drive-innovation-in-workforce-development/?sc=rsin Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:00:28 EST The departments of Psychology and Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (ISEEM) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have joined forces in a novel interdisciplinary collaboration with Mazda Toyota Manufacturing (MTM) to drive innovation in workforce development, employee retention and performance. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-researcher-looks-to-ai-and-neural-networks-to-reduce-wait-times-for-lesion-classification-in-breast-cancer-patients/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-researcher-looks-to-ai-and-neural-networks-to-reduce-wait-times-for-lesion-classification-in-breast-cancer-patients/?sc=rsin Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:25:37 EST One of the most agonizing experiences a cancer patient suffers is waiting without knowing: waiting for a diagnosis, waiting to get test results back, waiting to learn the outcome of treatment protocols. Now a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is co-author of a paper in Nature Scientific Reports that studies the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and neuronal networks to significantly cut the time required for medical professionals to classify lesions in breast cancer ultrasound images. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-researcher-says-interaction-of-kinetic-waves-and-suprathermal-particles-could-be-key-to-unlocking-biggest-mystery-in-heliophysics/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-researcher-says-interaction-of-kinetic-waves-and-suprathermal-particles-could-be-key-to-unlocking-biggest-mystery-in-heliophysics/?sc=rsin Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:00:02 EST A graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama system, has published a paper in the journal Astronomy and Physics that builds on an earlier study to help understand why the solar corona is so hot compared to the surface of the sun itself. To shed further light on this age-old mystery, Syed Ayaz, a Ph. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-electric-propulsion-club-seeks-patent-for-experimental-ion-thruster-developed-by-epc-students-presents-at-international-astronautical-congress-in-italy/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-electric-propulsion-club-seeks-patent-for-experimental-ion-thruster-developed-by-epc-students-presents-at-international-astronautical-congress-in-italy/?sc=rsin Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:10:47 EST The Electric Propulsion Club (EPC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), recently traveled to Milan, Italy, to present STARGATE, an experimental gridded ion thruster developed by the group, at the 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC). The group's STARGATE team consists entirely of UAH undergraduates and is an independent student research organization working in the fields of electric propulsion (EP) and plasma physics at UAH, a part of The University of Alabama System. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-scientists-help-unveil-dynamic-gamma-ray-emissions-in-tropical-thunderclouds/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-scientists-help-unveil-dynamic-gamma-ray-emissions-in-tropical-thunderclouds/?sc=rsin Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:45:30 EST Researchers from the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have partnered with atmospheric scientists from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to make groundbreaking discoveries about gamma-ray emissions from thunderstorms. Once considered rare and short-lived, these high-energy bursts are now revealed to be far more dynamic, extensive and frequent than previously thought, particularly in tropical regions, according to the team's findings, featured in the international science journal Nature. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/national-academies-of-sciences-engineering-and-medicine-award-600k-to-uah-to-join-gulf-scholars-program/?sc=rsin /articles/national-academies-of-sciences-engineering-and-medicine-award-600k-to-uah-to-join-gulf-scholars-program/?sc=rsin Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:45:24 EST The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has announced The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been awarded a $600,000 grant to join the Gulf Scholars Program (GPS). The initiative is part of a five-year, $12.7 million pilot program aimed at preparing undergraduate students to address environmental, health, energy and infrastructure challenges in the Gulf of Mexico. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-atmospheric-researchers-find-disadvantaged-urban-populations-are-subject-to-greater-heat-stress-poor-air-quality/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-atmospheric-researchers-find-disadvantaged-urban-populations-are-subject-to-greater-heat-stress-poor-air-quality/?sc=rsin Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:40:08 EST Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have employed a NASA open-source program to reveal that disadvantaged populations may be subject to greater heat stress and poor air quality. For this study, the researchers focused on Houston, Tex. Combining changes in heat and land cover with Houston's socioeconomic data demonstrated that economically disadvantaged populations are subject to greater heat stress. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-plasma-researcher-follows-up-first-of-its-kind-study-of-alfv-n-waves-with-groundbreaking-new-findings-possibly-key-to-mystery-of-solar-corona-heating/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-plasma-researcher-follows-up-first-of-its-kind-study-of-alfv-n-waves-with-groundbreaking-new-findings-possibly-key-to-mystery-of-solar-corona-heating/?sc=rsin Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:30:21 EST Syed Ayaz, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has published a paper in Scientific Reports that builds on an earlier first-of-its-kind study that examined kinetic Alfven waves (KAW) as a possible explanation for why the solar corona, the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere, is approximately 200 times hotter than the surface of the sun itself. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-doctoral-candidate-awarded-150-000-nasa-finesst-grant-to-research-3d-printed-lunar-concrete/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-doctoral-candidate-awarded-150-000-nasa-finesst-grant-to-research-3d-printed-lunar-concrete/?sc=rsin Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:00:14 EST Ledia Shehu, a doctoral student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been selected to receive a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grant for her proposal, "Physics-Based Multiscale Constitutive Model for ISRU-Based 3D-Printed Lunar Concrete." The project seeks to develop a multiscale model for 3D-printed concrete using lunar materials by simulating lunar conditions. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/national-space-club-taps-uah-eminent-scholar-dr-gary-zank-to-receive-2024-distinguished-science-award/?sc=rsin /articles/national-space-club-taps-uah-eminent-scholar-dr-gary-zank-to-receive-2024-distinguished-science-award/?sc=rsin Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:05:23 EST The National Space Club (NSC), Huntsville Chapter, has selected Dr. Gary Zank at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to receive the 2024 Distinguished Science Award. Zank is the Aerojet/Rocketdyne Chair in Space Science, as well as director of the Center for Space Physics and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR). The award was presented at the 36th Annual Dr. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-researcher-wins-300k-nsf-award-to-characterize-vulnerability-of-intelligent-controllers-for-cyber-physical-systems-to-safeguard-smart-grids-robotic-swarms-autonomous-vehicles/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-researcher-wins-300k-nsf-award-to-characterize-vulnerability-of-intelligent-controllers-for-cyber-physical-systems-to-safeguard-smart-grids-robotic-swarms-autonomous-vehicles/?sc=rsin Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:25:40 EST Dr. Avimanyu Sahoo, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) award totaling $299,969 to characterize the vulnerability of the learning-based intelligent cyber-physical systems (CPS) and defend them. The CPS represents a symbiotic integration of physical systems, sensors, actuators and learning-based intelligent controllers through communication networks such as smart grids, robotic swarms and autonomous vehicles. University of Alabama Huntsville /articles/uah-graduate-student-wins-doe-office-of-science-graduate-student-research-award-to-study-magneto-inertial-fusion-at-los-alamos/?sc=rsin /articles/uah-graduate-student-wins-doe-office-of-science-graduate-student-research-award-to-study-magneto-inertial-fusion-at-los-alamos/?sc=rsin Thu, 24 Oct 2024 11:20:26 EST Ian Wagner, a doctoral candidate of mechanical and aerospace engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been selected to receive the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award. The honor resulted from Wagner's proposed research project to study plasma-jet driven magneto-inertial fusion, to be conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). University of Alabama Huntsville