UAH: News & Events

UAH scientist nears goal of solar storm prediction

3/14/2005 - A series of massive solar ejections in late October and early November 2003 forced astronauts aboard the International Space Station to retreat to the more heavily shielded Russian module, and made airline traffic divert from normal flight paths over the North Pole.

UAH research: Thermal management key to survival for long-term space endeavors

3/7/2005 - One of the risks facing astronauts on a lengthy excursion into space would be a tremendous amount of heat generated by the spacecraft from a variety of sources, including a major source of heat such as that produced by a nuclear generator, power plant or rocket engine.

UAH offers new information assurance certificate program

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CMOST finds 'performance-based logistics' best practices

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Excursions to Moon, Mars revolves around propulsion

2/28/2005 - As Clark Hawk sees it, discussing a mission to Mars begins and ends with propulsion. There is not much need to discuss traveling to the Red Planet if there is no energy behind a spacecraft pushing it along the 130-million-mile journey.

Solving the Texas-sized riddle of Houston's air pollution

2/22/2005 - When UAH's Dr. Noor Gillani looked at the air pollution problem in Houston TX in 2001, something didn't add up.

UAH research targets astronauts’ bone loss on lengthy space flights

2/21/2005 - The math is pretty stark: An astronaut loses more than 1 percent of his or her bone mass for every month spent in space. About 1 percent of the spine. More than 2 percent of some hip bones.

Regional Science Olympiad is Saturday at UAH

2/16/2005 - More than 450 young scientists from 27 middle and high schools across North Alabama will fire up their homemade catapults, engage their water-powered rockets and get their brains in gear for the North Alabama Science Olympiad on Saturday at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

Materials to build concrete structures exist in abundance on the lunar surface

2/14/2005 - High rise structures on the lunar surface? Well, maybe not skyscrapers, but the possibility exists that concrete structures could be built by astronauts using material indigenous to the moon.

UAH unveils student friendly plan for campus

2/4/2005 - A gateway to the university. The continued transition to a more pedestrian-friendly campus. Additional space to house students. The development of "green malls" that better link zones within the campus.

Five Alabama universities share NASA aerospace education grant

2/4/2005 - A $109,000 grant to support hands-on aerospace education activities at UAH and four other Alabama universities has been awarded to the Alabama Space Grant Consortium by NASA.

UAH graduate engineering program ranked best in U.S.

1/26/2005 - The graduate level engineering management program at The University of Alabama in Huntsville has been singled out as being the best in the nation by the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM).

Students' project gives old computers new life

1/25/2005 - A cluster of aging and once surplus computers might soon help business school faculty run complex research programs, and serve as a role model for any company or organization that is trying to decide what to do with outdated computer hardware.

UAH celebrates Homecoming 2005

1/21/2005 - The University of Alabama in Huntsville community is gearing up for Homecoming 2005 with sporting events, live music, bonfire, games, crowning of the homecoming king and queen and a dance.

MLA Awards Parker Prize to Rolf J. Goebel

1/21/2005 - The Modern Language Association of America recently announced the winner of the 41st annual William Riley Parker Prize for an Outstanding Article Published in PMLA, the association's journal of literary scholarship. The author of the winning essay is Rolf J. Goebel, professor of German and Foreign Languages and Literatures at UAH. His article, "Berlin's Architectural Citations: Reconstruction, Simulation, and the Problem of Historical Authenticity" appeared in the October 2003 issue of PMLA. Goebel will received a $500 monetary award and a certificate containing the text of the selection committee's citation for his winning essay.

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Moving cotton, corn out of western deserts may undo harm done to Southern economy

1/12/2005 - Massive federal subsidies that helped move much of America's farm production into western deserts also contributed substantially to the poverty and economic deprivation that now plague large portions of the rural South.

Alabama scientists propose solution to Western water shortage problems

1/10/2005 - Luring some water-intensive agriculture away from California and other western states back to the eastern U.S. could provide cost effective solutions to water shortages in desert states beset by drought and increasing demand for a shrinking water supply.

Graduate management class being offered in Romania

1/2/2005 - Professor Emeritus James McCollum is organizing a two-week, six-credit-hour course in "Proposal Writing and Project Management," MGT 470/570, for graduate and undergraduate students from UAH and Eastern Europe. The class is being offered through Black Sea University and will be taught June 27 through July 8 at a Black Sea resort area in Romania.

UAH students study international company’s supply chain

1/1/2005 - A class project by a trio of international graduate students in UAH's business school might be helping an international company with a Huntsville plant improve its supply chain.