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  • UAH student wins national 2024 Department of Energy CyberForce® competition

    Russ Nelson, UAH Research writer|Aug 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AUG. 14, 2024) – A student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has won the 2024 Department of Energy (DOE) CyberForce competition®, a national contest designed to hone cybersecurity skills and visibility by challenging students to face off in simulated cyber-focused scenarios centered on securing operational energy technology from adversarial forces. Hunter Wittenborn, a computer science major heading into his sophomore year this fall at UAH, a part of the Univ...

  • UAH researcher wins 2024 ORAU Powe Junior Faculty Award to explore novel method of synthesizing ammonia with potentially global implications

    Russ Nelson, UAH Research writer|Aug 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AUG. 16, 2024) – Dr. Agnieszka Truszkowska, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has won the 2024 Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award. The national honor is a one-year $5,000 commitment aimed at enriching the research skills and professional growth of young faculty members at ORAU member institutions. Truszkowska's research f...

  • The impact of early childhood education is widespread, so why doesn't every city offer it?

    Stacker, Wade Zhou|Aug 1, 2024

    "What serves my children best is play-based learning that allows kids the space to learn in the place where they learn best. Play is the language of students, it's where they're the experts and it's where they're able to have a lot of fun and have a lot of joy, but also develop the critical executive functioning skills that determine life outcomes," Baltimore prekindergarten teacher Berol Dewdney told NPR in 2022. The word "education" is often associated with high school or college, where...

  • Will this be the year K-12 students recover from the pandemic's effect on learning?

    Stacker, Natalie P. McNeal|Aug 1, 2024

    As a new school year begins, students are still struggling to achieve grade-level proficiency in reading and math, compounding the learning loss during school closures at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. HeyTutor analyzed news reports and academic research to see how learning loss during the coronavirus pandemic might impact students during the 2024-2025 school year. A 2024 Annie E. Casey Foundation report revealed that many students in the United States are still performing far below their...

  • UAH HERC rover team makes STEM outreach trip to Dominican Republic hosted by INTEC University

    Russ Nelson, UAH Research Writer|Aug 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AUG. 22, 2024) – Winning the 2024 Human Rover Explorer Challenge (HERC) provided an engineering student team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, the opportunity to perform STEM outreach in the Dominican Republic (DR) this summer. UAH rover team THESEUS members traveled to the DR capital to give presentations to attendees at the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, or INTEC University, at the invitation of DR rover tea...

  • UAH TERMINUS student team successfully launches NASA RockSat-X payload into space

    Russ Nelson, UAH Research Writer|Aug 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AUG. 28, 2024) – Team TERMINUS from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, successfully launched a student-developed payload aboard a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket that featured two experiments designed by the UAH Space Hardware Club (SHC). The student packages were launched as part of the NASA RockSat-X program, a flight that soared to an altitude of 100 miles from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops I...

  • UAH researcher wins NASA FINESST scholarship to study connection between solar wind turbulence and energetic particles

    Russ Nelson, UAH Research writer|Aug 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AUG. 30, 2024) – Ashok Silwal, a doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been chosen to receive a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) scholarship to study stream interaction regions (SIRs) in the heliosphere. SIRs accelerate energetic particles, impacting the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere....

  • More schools are banning smartphones, but kids keep bringing them

    Stacker, Carolyn Jones for CalMatters, Khari Johnson for CalMatters|Aug 1, 2024

    At Bullard High School in Fresno, California, it's easy to see the benefits of banning students' cellphones. Bullying is down and socialization is up, principal Armen Torigian said. Enforcing the smartphone restrictions? That's been harder. Instead of putting their devices in magnetically locked pouches, like they're supposed to, some kids will stick something else in there instead, like a disused old phone, a calculator, a glue bottle or just the phone case. Others attack the pouch, pulling at...

  • Kids are going back to school during one of the hottest years on record. Here's how heat affects learning.

    Stacker, Martin Slagter|Aug 1, 2024

    In July, global temperatures continued to climb to their highest levels on record, marking 14 consecutive months of record-high temperatures, according to a National Centers for Environmental Information report. As temperatures climb, so do concerns over the effect of these hot weather days on learning. "Kids are coming to school and not even having their basic needs of comfort met; and if they don't have their needs met, they can't progress and learn and do all of those things we want them to...

  • How school counselors can address the youth mental health crisis

    Stacker, Matt Zbrog|Aug 1, 2024

    America is experiencing a mental health crisis, and mental health struggles amongst the nation's youth are intensifying. Student mental health is in a precarious place, with children and teens exposed to more information, more social contact, and more discord than ever before. The student mental health crisis is pervasive. The good news is that Americans are more aware of the importance of mental health now more than ever. Age-old taboos are finally lifting. Even the federal government is...

  • Extreme heat is making schools hotter - and learning harder

    Stacker, Jessica Kutz, The 19th|Aug 1, 2024

    Angela Girol has been teaching fourth grade in Pittsburgh for over two decades. Over the years she's noticed a change at her school: It's getting hotter. Some days temperatures reach 90 degrees Fahrenheit in her classroom which, like many on the East Coast, isn't air-conditioned. When it's hot, she said, kids don't eat, or drink enough water. "They end up in the nurse's office because they're dizzy, they have a headache, their stomach hurts — all because of heat and dehydration," she said. To c...

  • 84% of U.S. educators actively use AI in the classroom

    Stacker, Grant Policar|Jul 1, 2024

    The first full school year since OpenAI launched ChatGPT on Nov. 20, 2022 has come to a close. Since then, educators' attitudes toward artificial intelligence have changed. For example, New York City Public Schools was the first district to ban ChatGPT in January 2023, only to lift the ban later that year in May. In fact, 70% of educators in New York report that AI has actually increased their passion in teaching. It's not just New York, though. Data shows that, across the country, educators'...

  • UAH HEL Optics Metrology Workshop aims to advance High-Energy Laser (HEL) Technologies

    Guest Writer, University of Alabama at Huntsville|Jul 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (June 27, 2024) – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will host the HEL Optics Metrology Workshop to improve metrology processes and technologies in high-energy laser (HEL) weapon systems. Registration is now open. The workshop will connect stakeholders from across the region on September 11-12 on the campus of UAH, a part of the University of Alabama System. Registration will close on September 4. The cost is $170. Federal government and UAH employees and students m...

  • College of Business researcher promotes "digital wellness" by studying ways consumers are detoxing from addictive technology

    Russ Nelson, UAH Research Writer|Jul 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (JUL 10, 2024) – In this digital age, there is growing concern that the overconsumption of digital media through smartphones, apps and social sites can impact mental and physical health, as well as increase social dysconnectivity. Increasingly, however, many people are looking to take back the hours they typically spend glued to their devices and instead foster a healthier relationship with the online world. Dr. Karen Anne Wallach, a researcher at The University of Alabama in H...

  • 5 tips to staying on track for students headed to college in the fall

    Stacker, Jason Gonzales for Chalkbeat|Jul 1, 2024

    Many Colorado high school graduates have headed into this summer uncertain about college. Some still might need an estimate of the cost, commit to enroll at a school, or finish tasks, like turning in immunization records and high school transcripts, before they show up in the fall. While students and families might fear they're behind for the fall, college advisers and admissions experts say they shouldn't worry after a college-going process complicated by Free Application for Federal Student...

  • UAH College of Science hosts STEM Summer Institute for area high schoolers

    Russ Nelson, UAH research writer|Jul 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (JUL. 15, 2024) – In June and July, the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) a part of the University of Alabama System, hosted two weeks of activities in support of the 2024 CAP & GOWN Project STEM Summer Institute. The free outreach program is designed to help students in grades 9-12 prepare for their college experience and includes ACT prep classes, tours and research events as well as hands-on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (...

  • UAH entry selected "Most Innovative" in 37th Concrete Canoe Competition

    Russ Nelson|Jul 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (JUL. 15, 2024) – Engineering students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) designed and built the canoe voted "most innovative" in the 37th annual American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Concrete Canoe Competition. The final phase of the event was staged as part of the 2024 ASCE Civil Engineering Student Championships at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, on June 20-22. The team from UAH, a part of the University of Alabama System, finished 17th o...

  • UAH helps Alabama lead charge to meet surging battery needs

    Russ Nelson, UAH research writer|Jul 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (JUL 22, 2024) – With the number of electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States projected to skyrocket to 26.4 million by 2030, the need is great for not only producing, but improving, the safety and efficiency of the batteries that power them, as well as cell phones, autonomous unmanned vehicles and smart electronics. Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, are doing their part to ensure Alabama is leading t...

  • UAH teams excel in 2024 international CanSat competition

    Russ Nelson, UAH research writer|Jul 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (JUL 23, 2024) – Three Space Hardware Club (SHC) teams from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, have placed first, third and fourth nationally in the 2024 International CanSat competition. UAH student teams Shockwave, Snapdragon and Moonracer placed first, third and fourth nationally, while also notching second, seventh and 10th, respectively, in the final international rankings. The accomplishment is even more impressive c...

  • UAH-led coalition building new statewide plasma industry in Alabama, backed by National Science Foundation

    Russ Nelson, UAH research writer|Jul 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (JUL 24, 2024) – A 10-year, $40 million federal investment in plasma science and engineering (PSE) efforts in Alabama managed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has produced tangible results that are very encouraging, according to Dr. Sandra Richardson, the section head for the Research Capacity and Competitiveness Section in the Office of Integrative Activities at the U.S. National Science Foundation. UAH is a part of the University of Alabama system. Alabama i...

  • We're OLLI! – Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UAH holds open house Aug. 16, launches new logo

    Anne Marie Martin, UAH writer and editor|Jul 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (JUL 29, 2024) – When members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) urge others to join the fun, they keep the name simple: "OLLI offers such interesting classes!" "We love to dance at OLLI!" "I've met so many new friends through OLLI!" When OLLI at UAH holds an open house on Aug. 16, guests will see the popular name highlighted in a new logo. The event, set for 10 a.m. to noon in Wilson Hall on the UAH campus, gives t...

  • Teacher QuitToks and what they say about the future of teaching

    Stacker, Grant Policar, Alina Lehtinen-Vela|Jul 1, 2024

    As the summer break nears its end, many teachers are starting to plan for the school year ahead. Some plan not to return. The trend of teachers quitting has been noticeable on social media. Teachercertification.com reports that teachers are among the largest groups posting QuitToks, with over 72 million videos under the theme Teacher QuitTok. The videos often point out issues causing burnout for teachers. This loud quitting could impact the minds of those planning their future careers, which is...

  • UAH researcher demonstrates Milky Way's last major galactic collision happened much more recently than previously thought

    Russ Nelson, UAH Research writer|Jun 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (JUN 6, 2024) – Dr. Tom Donlon, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, is the lead author of a new paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that reveals the Milky Way Galaxy's last major collision occurred billions of years later than previously thought. Donlon worked with Dr. Heidi Newberg, professor of physics and astronomy, and her team at the Rensselaer P...

  • Senate passes resolution led by Senators Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville commending University of South Alabama's 60th Anniversary

    Staff Writer|Jun 1, 2024

    On Friday, the United States Senate by unanimous consent this week passed a resolution introduced by U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) to celebrate the University of South Alabama's 60th anniversary. The University of South Alabama was founded on May 3, 1963, and has since awarded over 90,000 degrees. Notably, the University's nationally recognized health system, USA Health, is the only academic health system along the upper Gulf Coast and continues to lead...

  • UAH alumnus Andrew Couch receives Knight-Hennessy Scholars fellowship at Stanford

    Anne Marie Martin, UAH writer and editor|Jun 1, 2024

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (JUN 26, 2024) – Andrew Couch, an alumnus of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been chosen as a recipient of the 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholars (KHS) fellowship award at Stanford University, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in management science and engineering with a focus on decision and risk analysis. Couch earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 2022 and a Master of Science in 2023, both in industrial and systems engineering, at UAH, a part of The University of A...

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