PRC Graduate Recognition 12/04/2019

PRC Graduate Recognition

Dec 04, 2019

Dr. Shery Welsh, a UAH Alumna, now serving as the Deputy Director, S&T, Advanced Technology Directorate, at the Missile Defense Agency, presented her title "Leaning Forward in Life to Success (Be a Weirdo)" to the graduating PRC students. ...

Group Photo with Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth

Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth visited the UAH campus for an aerospace research tour

Dec 09, 2019

Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth visited the UAH campus for an aerospace research tour on Monday, December 9, 2019. Dr. Frederick, Dr. Ligrani, and several graduate and undergraduate students offered the delegation a tour of the Propulsion Research Center exp...

UAH modeling the spacecraft for NASA’s nuclear thermal propulsion idea

UAH modeling the spacecraft for NASA’s nuclear thermal propulsion idea

Nov 13, 2019

Successful human spaceflight to Mars and back is bound by basic rules of physics that any home garage hot rodder knows: mass, power and fuel consumption. To complete the mission, there must be enough thrust to propel a spacecraft’s weight to the ...

2019 PRC Poster Winners

2019 PRC Poster Winners

Sep 18, 2019

Shelby Westrich, Nathan Schilling, and Dennis Nikitaev win in the 2019 Von Braun Symposium poster contest. Engineering - First Place - Undergraduate Shelby Westrich, University of Alabama in Huntsville “Pulsed Power Diagnostics for Fusion Propul...

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 ...

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. ...

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 alumna Molly Timbrook, husband design popular board game

UAH alumna Molly Timbrook, husband design popular board game "Hedge Lord"

Apr 09, 2019

When Molly Timbrook (’17 MA, English) attended UAH little did she know her graduate degree in English would be instrumental in launching a toy business. ...

Von Braun

Von Braun Memorial Symposium and Memorial Dinner set Oct. 23-25

Oct 15, 2018

"Galvanizing U.S. Leadership in Space" is the theme of the American Astronautical Society’s 11th Annual Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium Oct. 23-25 in Charger Union Theater at UAH, an event being held in conjunction with UAH and NASA Marshall...

Ligrani

Wind tunnel will be used to study gas turbine hot section components

Aug 22, 2018

The wind tunnel at UAH Johnson Research Center (JRC) will be used to provide data to research gas turbine hot section components at engine conditions. ...