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Graduate student unites his passion for science and enthusiasm for diversity at UAH

Apr 23, 2018

Roberto Dextre first recognized his connection to science at the High School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan, where he noticed that he easily understood math and science. "I think it was the physics courses that opened my mind to how science...

Team Chargernaut takes first place in NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge

Apr 19, 2018

First two teams in the moon buggy senior design class each designed and fabricated two rovers from the ground up, and then the UAH Team Chargernaut snapped a six-year drought to capture first place in the weather-shortened NASA Human Exploration Ro...

Charger Rocket Works earns Vehicle Design Award at NASA competition

Apr 10, 2018

NASA awarded the UAH Charger Rocket Works team with the Launch Vehicle Design Award for creative and innovative overall vehicle design for the intended payloads while maximizing safety and efficiency at its 18th annual Student Launch. ...

UAH engineering major’s internships prepare him for a high-flying career in aerospace

Apr 06, 2018

Davis Hunter was making paper airplanes in church at seven years old when another congregant presented a possibility that he had never considered. "They told me that I should be an aerospace engineer," Hunter says. Flash forward to 2018, and he is ...

UAH professor’s early-stage proposal for “Marsbees” selected to receive NASA funding

Apr 04, 2018

A proposal on Marsbees submitted by Dr. Chang-kwon Kang, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UAH, was one of only 25 selected to receive a 2018 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) award. ...

Rover part of Charger Rocket Works NASA Student Launch entry

Apr 02, 2018

Charger Rocket Works, the student team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), is at full thrust to qualify a nine-foot rocket with an autonomous rover as its payload for the launch portion of the coming NASA Student Launch competition Ap...