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1 week ago | 
256today.com | Russ Nelson |Bud McLaughlin
HUNTSVILLE – A researcher at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to develop a more accurate map of the outer gas disk of the Milky Way galaxy. The findings of Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at UAH, are being presented this week at the 246th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Anchorage, Alaska, in conjunction with Michigan State University.
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2 weeks ago | 
256today.com | Russ Nelson |Bud McLaughlin
HUNTSVILLE – A University of Alabama in Huntsville researcher has offered a model that could resolve turbulence and eddies within hurricanes as they make landfall, enhancing predictions and public safety.
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2 weeks ago | 
phys.org | Russ Nelson |Lisa Lock |Robert Egan
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to develop a more accurate map of the outer gas disk of the Milky Way galaxy.
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2 weeks ago | 
phys.org | Russ Nelson |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin
Dr. Xiaomin Chen, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, has published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters that offers a new model capable of resolving turbulence and eddies within hurricanes as they transition from water to land. The innovation provides a way to quantify the uncertainty of 10-meter wind estimates above the surface derived from different observation-based approaches for the first time.
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3 weeks ago | 
256today.com | Russ Nelson |Bud McLaughlin
HUNTSVILLE – The Human Exploration Rover Challenge team at the University of Alabama in Huntsville recently hosted the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo from the Dominican Republic during NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge.
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1 month ago | 
256today.com | Russ Nelson |Bud McLaughlin
HUNTSVILLE – A research team at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has demonstrated inexpensive store-bought tape can be used to craft a triboelectric nanogenerator capable of harvesting electrical energy from various sources, including human movement and environmental conditions, to power small devices like wearable biosensors.
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1 month ago | 
256today.com | Russ Nelson |Bud McLaughlin
HUNTSVILLE – A new research study from the University of Alabama in Huntsville addresses thequestion, “how much have urban areas warmed from the Urban Heat Island effect?”UAH Earth System Science Center Research Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer and UAH Earth System Science Center Director and Alabama State Climatologist Dr. John R. Christy have spent several years developing a novel method that quantifies, for the first time,average UHI warming effects related to population density.
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1 month ago | 
256today.com | Russ Nelson |Bud McLaughlin
HUNTSVILLE – To demonstrate the collaborative skills necessary to tackle the practical challenges of living in space, students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville are taking a multidisciplinary course recently showcased by an event called “Astronaut Breakfast Day.”The activity was hosted by the College of Nursing at UAH, where participants met to sample genuine astronaut fare.
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2 months ago | 
256today.com | Russ Nelson |Bud McLaughlin
HUNTSVILLE – It’s often said that one of the hardest things to accomplish in team competitions is a “three-peat” – winning three championships in a row. After placing first in 2023 and 2024 in NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge, the University of Alabama in Huntsville was set to do just that this year, before a catastrophic mechanical setback on the first day of the two-day competition ended the dream of a third consecutive victory.
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2 months 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. The College of Nursing faculty member 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.
