Kavan Hazeli

Professor gets CAREER grant for additive manufacturing materials research

Mar 19, 2020

Research to develop lightweight multifunctional metallic materials that can mimic structural properties in nature has won an assistant professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) a $540,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant. ...

Rocket Team

Student team’s NASA Student Launch rocket and rover effort is successful

Mar 18, 2020

A student team at UAH successfully launched a rocket with a rover as its payload in a national NASA Student Launch that was shortened by the COVID-19 virus. ...

AIAA awardees

Undulating flight saves Monarchs energy, says award-winning study with drone implications

Feb 07, 2020

In a finding that could benefit drone design, award-winning research by a doctoral student at UAH shows that the undulating flight paths of Monarch butterflies are actually more energy efficient than a straight-line path. ...

Student with blue laser

UAH’s aerospace engineering research activities rank fifth in the United States

Jan 06, 2020

Five programs among the top 12 nationally. ...

The Combustion Institute - 2020 Spring Tech Mtg & Call for Papers and Competitions

The Combustion Institute - 2020 Spring Tech Mtg & Call for Papers and Competitions

Dec 19, 2019

2020 Spring Technical Meeting of the Central States Section — Calls for Papers and Competitions  Central States Section of The Combustion Institute ...

Joseph Agnew

Standing room only crowd engages in student’s warp drive theory speech

Sep 16, 2019

If space is the final frontier, we’re going to have to boost our propulsion speeds to slip the bounds of our solar system. Andromeda, our nearest major galaxy, is 2.573 million light years away. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, so a ...

Dr. Shigeyuki Ueno

Three degrees in five years—UAH alumnus Shigeyuki Ueno graduates in record time

Aug 19, 2019

In a record-breaking time of five years, Shigeyuki Ueno earned bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees (’07, BSE, ’09 MSE, ’12, Ph.D.) in engineering from UAH. ...

hands-on research in the STEM fields

Two programs give underrepresented students hands-on experience in the STEM fields

Aug 13, 2019

Each summer, UAH welcomes to its campus a group of hard-working high achievers from rural, frontier, or other targeted outreach schools to take part in two programs designed to give historically underrepresented students hands-on experience in the ...

GRTs standing in lab by balloon

Space Hardware Club on the hunt for terrestrial gamma rays in thunderstorms

Jul 01, 2019

Student members of the Space Hardware Club at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are preparing to launch weather balloons into thunderstorms to try to directly observe the terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs) storms generate. ...

Wernher von Braun pauses in front of the Saturn V

UAH to host 50th anniversary lunar landing events: Fireworks show will highlight week’s activities

Jul 01, 2019

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will host a variety of events and activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 landing on the moon. UAH has played a key role in America’s space program since Marshall Space ...