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UAH Space Hardware Club team will connect area students with International Space Station

Apr 04, 2022

Eight area sixth and eighth graders will be placing a long-distance call to lower Earth orbit when they dial up the International Space Station (ISS) via ham radio on April 7. ...


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Space Hardware Club team’s robotic rover on its way to summertime competition in Utah

Mar 24, 2022

After two years of work, a four-function robotic rover developed for use on Mars by a 21-person Space Hardware Club (SHC) team at UAH, will be in summer competition at the University Rover Challenge (URC) finals in the desert of southern Utah. ...


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UAH programs in top 25 nationally for federal funding as university ranks in research elite

Mar 10, 2022

Six programs at UAH rank among the top 25 federally-funded programs in the United States, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey. ...


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Number of NSF CAREER awards won over three years puts UAH in elite group nationally

Mar 09, 2022

The number of coveted National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards won by UAH faculty in the past three years puts UAH among an elite group of very high research universities nationally. ...


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‘Bubble-through’ nuclear engine might be a future NASA workhorse

Mar 08, 2022

A cutting-edge nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) rocket engine using what’s called centrifugal liquid fuel bubble-through could one day be a ticket for NASA to go directly into deep space. ...


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Northrop Grumman Names UAH ‘Focus University’

Feb 18, 2022

Northrop Grumman, a global aerospace and defense technology company with more than 90,000 employees, has designated UAH as a “Focus University” – one of only eight institutions in the country to receive that distinction. ...


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UAH achieves top level R1 rank in Carnegie research classifications

Feb 07, 2022

UAH has achieved the highest research activity rating in the current, 2021 update of the Carnegie Classification of Institutes of Higher Education. ...


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UAH wind tunnel researchers investigate shock waves under new NSF research grant

Jan 27, 2022

The wind tunnel at UAH will be used to study the effects of shock waves at transonic, supersonic and hypersonic speeds under a three-year, $249,000 basic research grant from the Thermal Transport Program of the National Science Foundation. ...


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Alumnus Dr. Albert Patterson named Mavis Future Faculty Fellow

Jul 16, 2021

Dr. Albert Patterson, an alumnus of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), was named a 2020-2021 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Grainger College of Engineering Mavis Future Faculty Fellow. ...


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Honors student Declan Brick named Goldwater Scholar

Jun 07, 2021

Declan Brick, an aerospace engineering and physics double-major at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has been named a Goldwater Scholar, the first from UAH in 13 years. ...


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