UAH launches new scholarship program for financially disadvantaged STEM transfers

UAH launches new scholarship program for financially disadvantaged STEM transfers

May 14, 2018

UAH is pleased to introduce the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Assistance for Transfer Improvement and Excellence (MATRIX) program, a brand new initiative to provide support for transfer students who have both a demonstrated financial need an...

Career Services Officers

Four-year engagement plan makes meaningful match between UAH students and employers

May 11, 2018

With an eye toward helping to grow the region’s pool of talented, qualified STEM employees, the Office of Career Services at UAH has launched a four-year employer engagement plan – known as the i4 program – to match UAH students with corporat...

Dr. Christine and Dr. Eletra

UAH faculty, researchers honored at annual awards ceremony

Apr 25, 2018

Awards Ceremony and Reception held on April 14, in the Student Services Building on campus to honor faculty and researchers at UAH. ...

Roberto Dextre

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...

moon buggy racers

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 team

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. ...

Davis Hunter

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 ...

Dr. Chang-kwon Kang

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 Team

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...

Dr. Azita Amiri

Five UAH researchers receive nearly $200,000 for upcoming projects

Mar 13, 2018

Five faculty members and researchers at UAH have been awarded with $199,037 from the UAH Research Infrastructure Fund Program (RIF), an initiative of the Office for the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED). ...