Welcome, Faculty & Staff

Fourteen new tenure-track faculty members at UAH will share $127,213 in 2014-15 New Faculty Research (NFR) awards from UAH's Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development.

"We invested more UAH funds then we had originally anticipated due to the high quality of the proposals we received," says Dr. Ray Vaughn, vice president for research and economic development. "It is important for us to remember that we are investing based on our expectation of facilitating a return on that investment by our faculty. I've found the UAH faculty to be a very good investment."

Retha Mecikalski, a doctoral student in atmospheric science at UAH, won the best student presentation award at the seventh Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data during the recent 2015 American Meteorological Society annual meeting in Arizona.

February 28 will mark the 22nd annual Science Olympiad Regional Tournament to be held at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). As in years past, the daylong event will task more than forty teams of middle and high school students from across Northern Alabama with solving educational challenges that range from designing a device that can launch a projectile to building and testing a Rube Goldberg machine.

"It's a great way to increase science awareness among middle and high school students and we believe it encourages out-of-the-classroom engagement of science," says Carey Snowden, Outreach and Events Coordinator for UAH's College of Science, which has long been a sponsor of the Science Olympiad.

Vanessa Colebaugh, UAH's Tournament Director, agrees. "The students are gaining skills they might not get in the classroom, like teamwork and problem-solving," she says. "But at the same time, since anyone is welcome to come watch, the atmosphere is like a sporting event with supporters cheering for their teams."