Well, along with I’m sure lots of other people, I was up at 3 a.m. CDT to watch Discovery come home to Florida. As soon as I turned on NASA TV at 3:05 a.m., I could tell from the body language in the control room at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, that they were not going to land on that first opportunity at 3:46 CDT.
Dr. Yuebin Guo, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Alabama, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. CAREER Awards are NSF’s most prestigious awards for top performing scientists and engineers who are early in their careers.
Discovery has been cleared for landing. Previously this week, Shuttle managers had determined that both the tiles and the reinforced carbon-carbon components of the thermal protection system were fit for re-entry.
The Alabama Museum of Natural History in Smith Hall on The University of Alabama campus will host the photographic exhibit, Science into History: Photographs by Eugene Allen Smith and the Geological Survey of Alabama, Aug. 27-Nov. 11.
Five of the state’s leading business and civic leaders will be inducted into the Alabama Business Hall of Fame on Thursday, Oct. 6 at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The 2005 Summer Undergraduate Research Participation Program in the chemistry department at The University of Alabama gives students an individual project to work on for 10 weeks with UA faculty, staff and graduate students. The National Science Foundation and the UA chemistry department sponsor this program. This year’s participants included: Georgia
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers recently awarded scholarships to two mechanical engineering students at The University of Alabama.
Aria Robinson of Mobile has been selected as a 2005 McNair Scholar at The University of Alabama.
I’m back home in Alabama. In fact, I have been working at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville this week. I got home to Tuscaloosa around 10:00 p.m. Friday night, spent the weekend recovering from last week’s travels, and got up at 5:00 a.m. Monday morning to come to work here at Marshall where I serve as the Center’s University Affairs Officer. I will be returning to Tuscaloosa Thursday afternoon.