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 ...

Ligrani recognized for ASME committee leadership

Ligrani recognized for ASME committee leadership

Jun 27, 2019

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Gas Turbine Institute has recognized Dr. Phillip Ligrani for outstanding contributions, commitment and service to its Heat Transfer Committee with an Outstanding service Award. ...

Shooting for the Moon: UAH M. Louis Salmon Library awarded Recordings at Risk grant

Shooting for the Moon: UAH M. Louis Salmon Library awarded Recordings at Risk grant

May 20, 2019

The UAH M. Louis Salmon Library Archives and Special Collections has been awarded a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Recordings as Risk Grant. UAH was the only Alabama institution selected to receive the award in the fifth grant ...

Doctoral candidate Ryan Gott earns DOE research opportunity at Sandia

Doctoral candidate Ryan Gott earns DOE research opportunity at Sandia

Apr 12, 2019

Ryan Gott, a doctoral candidate in Dr. Gabe Xu’s Plasma and Electrodynamics Research Lab at UAH, has been awarded a United States Dept. of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program research opportunity at Sandia Nat...

UAH engineering alumnus Emory Eledui creating magic everyday

UAH engineering alumnus Emory Eledui creating magic everyday

Feb 04, 2019

If Emory Eledui (’11, BSE, ME) had listened to all the naysayers, he would have blown "the best career decision ever." ...

Sodium ion battery research could power up renewable energy storage

Sodium ion battery research could power up renewable energy storage

Jan 24, 2019

Longer life and increased capacity for a new technology battery that could be the workhorse of a renewable energy grid are the goals of a study of the effect of charging cycles on the structure of anodes in sodium ion batteries. ...