UA Engineering Professor Earns NSF Career Award

University of Alabama, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. NSF's CAREER Awards recognize top-performing young scientists and engineers who are beginning their careers. Hubner has been awarded a five-year, $400,000 grant to advance his study of luminescence technology, which is the emission of light as a result of energy other than heat…

Seven-Foot Cones Key in New Approach to Nuclear Energy

Seven-Foot Cones Key in New Approach to Nuclear Energy From national security issues, to high oil prices, to environmental impacts, reasons for the growing search for alternative energy sources are broad-based. Now, a national security laboratory, with an assist from a University of Alabama engineer, is using what appear to be giant, steel traffic cones to try and turn nuclear fusion into a realistic energy alternative…