$2.3 million NSF grant boosts UAH effort to predict harmful solar weather events
May 05, 2022
When big blasts of energy from the sun envelop the Earth, they can be so strong that a 2015 event so weakened Earth’s protective magnetic field that it penetrated to the atmosphere, posing a threat to everything from circling space station astron...
UAH collaboration creates self-learning AI platform to discover new drugs
May 04, 2022
Research to propel microsatellites and CubeSats with ionized plasma from a micro-electrical engine will take a UAH doctoral student in aerospace engineering to Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico this fall. ...
CubeSat propulsion research lands doctoral student a DOE Sandia Labs internship
May 03, 2022
Research to propel microsatellites and CubeSats with ionized plasma from a micro-electrical engine will take a UAH doctoral student in aerospace engineering to Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico this fall. ...
Butterfly-like micro-aerial vehicle places graduating senior second at AIAA regional
Apr 28, 2022
A graduating senior at UAH who is working to develop a micro-aerial vehicle that can fly like a monarch butterfly has won second place for his paper in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Regional Student Conferences Regio...
Honors College and Prevost Scholarship create opportunities for Michael Sorrell
Apr 21, 2022
Michael Sorrell, a mechanical engineering major slated to graduate in 2023, says his experience at UAH, and specifically with the Honors College, has been formative. ...
UAH receives initial approval from UA System Board of Trustees for major engineering building project
Apr 08, 2022
The first phase of a new engineering building project at UAH has received conceptual approval from the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees. ...
‘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. ...
UAH helping create AI cell phone forensics tool to help police solve mass crimes
Mar 01, 2022
There can be lots of forensic evidence on many people’s cell phones when a mass incident like a shooting or bombing is happens, but winnowing out the relevant material and putting it in context can be a time-consuming and tedious affair for law e...
UAH Honors College receives continuing $125K gift to fund the Stanley E. Prevost Honors Scholarship
Feb 23, 2022
Stanley E. Prevost presented the UAH Honors College with a $125,000 gift as part of a continuing gift to fund the UAH Stanley E. Prevost Honors Scholarship. ...
Image made in pioneering UAH research into galactic gas mixing appears on journal cover
Feb 24, 2022
An image created by UAH astrophysicists who did pioneering research to quantify processes involved in gas mixing in the tails of galaxies being stripped of their gas envelopes has been featured on the cover of the February issue of the journal “N...