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Department Office
Optics Building
Room 201 B
Huntsville AL 35899
Tel: 256-824-2483
At a Glance
The Department of Physics at The University of Alabama in Huntsville has 25 faculty members,
and offers BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Physics, as well as an MS degree in Optics and Photonics Technology.
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Research Specializations
The Department focus on research in the three major areas of astrophysics, space physics, and optics.
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UAH Physics Announcements
Announcements and News from the UAH Department of Physics. |
| 05/28/2009 NASA Student Ambassador Ms. Laura Seward, graduate student in the Department of Physics, has been selected to be among the first group of NASA Student Ambassadors. |
| 03/24/2009 Outstanding GRA Ms. Nicole Hasler has been awarded an Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award from the College of Science for the 08-09 AY. Ms. Hasler works with Prof. Bonamente. |
| 03/03/2009 Turbulence Simulation Assistant Professor Dastgeer Shaikh, using a new 3D simulation of turbulence cascading, has solved a physics mystery first observed in the solar wind 15 years ago. |
| 02/24/2009 PlayStation 3 Research How did Sony's PlayStation 3 (or, actually, sixteen of them) help Assitant Professor Lior Burko solve a fundamental astrophysics question? Click on the link to find out. |
| 02/24/2009 NSF CAREER Award Dr. Gang Li, Assistant Professor of Physics, has been awarded a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. |
| 02/20/2009 Record Gamma-Ray Burst Physics graduate student Adam Goldstein's first day on the job tending the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was a doozy. Goldstein was still learning the ropes the evening of 16 September 2008, nearing the end of his 12-hour on-call shift, when the GBM called his cell phone to signal that a burst had been detected. And what a burst... |
