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. ...
‘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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
UAH junior Thomas Vu Nguyen awarded DAAD RISE internship
Jun 02, 2021
Thomas Vu Nguyen, a Department of Mechanical Engineering and Honors student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has received a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Internship in ...
Alumnus and NASA inventor Jonathan Lee is driven to battle COVID-19 after losing his father
May 26, 2021
For NASA inventor Jonathan Lee, an alumnus of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, the global pandemic could not be more personal: it took away his father last year, spurring Lee to join the battl...
UAH creates endowed scholarship to honor NASA pioneer Ann McNair
May 19, 2021
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has created an endowed scholarship to honor Ann McNair. ...
