Russ Nelson

6 days ago | 256today.com | Russ Nelson |Bud McLaughlin

HUNTSVILLE – Dr. Donna Guerra, a clinical associate professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has been selected president of the Alabama League of Nursing. Guerra has been a member of the ALN for 10 years and was nominated as president-elect in 2023 before being chosen president. The ALN’s mission is to support the development and improvement of Alabama nursing services or nursing education. “I believe in the ALN. Its mission fits well with my work as a nurse educator,” Guerra said.

2 weeks ago | phys.org | Russ Nelson

Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a paper in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity that proposes a universe built on steps of multiple singularities rather than the Big Bang alone to account for the expansion of the cosmos.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Russ Nelson

7 hours agoNASA has shared an incredible new video showing what collision of multiple galaxies look like. The video, which shows several galaxies swirling to collapse and merge into one, is actually a supercomputer simulation critical to understanding galactic evolutions. According to NASA, they also reveal …

1 month ago | 256today.com | Russ Nelson

HUNTSVILLE – Dr. Paresh Samantaray, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, 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. The region encompasses a 95-square-mile area that drains into Mobile Bay and the Gulf coast. The $76,000 award is part of the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

1 month ago | 256today.com | Russ Nelson

HUNTSVILLE – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, 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.