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    Noel Goddard, CEO of Qunnect, Inc., which has deployed more quantum networks around the world than any other company in the United States.

    UAH Distinguished Lecture Series hosts Qunnect CEO Noel Goddard: “Quantum technology is going to touch all our lives”

    Nov 06, 2026

    The next great battle for national security may not be fought over who has the fastest computer, but over who can protect the information moving between them. ...


    Dark matter in the Milky Way

    UAH astrophysicist Sukanya Chakrabarti elected Fellow of American Physical Society

    Oct 12, 2026

    An astrophysicist whose research is helping scientists uncover the hidden structure of the universe has earned one of the physics community’s most selective professional honors. ...


    Savaria Parrish, Pragya Natarajan and Stephanie Manasterski, the first three UAH graduate students to receive fellowships in the National Science Foundation’s

    Three incoming UAH students win NSF EGFP grants highlighting student success; research opportunities still available for top STEM graduates

    Aug 21, 2026

    The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is welcoming three graduate students who won research fellowships through the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Established Program to Stimulate Competit...


    The Large Magellanic Cloud has a mass of approximately 41 billion times that of the Sun.

    UAH researchers find new method to “weigh” neighboring galaxies using pulsars as ultra-precise gravitational probes

    May 21, 2026

    Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, have identified a promising new method for measuring the mass of galaxies orbiting the Milky Way by using pulsars, some of the universe’s mo...


    These awards included UAH Foundation Staff Awards; Research and Creative Activity Undergraduate Mentor Award; College Outstanding Faculty Awards; University Distinguished Teaching Award; University Distinguished Research, Creative Achievement and Scholarly Performance Award; University Researcher of the Year Award, and the new faculty and staff Made a Difference Award

    UAH celebrates outstanding faculty, staff at 2026 University Awards for Excellence event on April 23

    May 12, 2026

    The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) honored the achievements of 23 faculty and staff members on April 23 at the 2026 University Awards for Excellence ceremony in the Student Services Building ballroom. ...


    Group of students engaged in a classroom setting with an instructor assisting and others listening or working on laptops.

    TEST Initiative Advances Undergraduate Learning in UAH’s College of Science

    Mar 18, 2026

    In fall 2025, the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, launched a new initiative aimed at strengthening teaching and enhancing undergraduate student learning. ...


    Andrew Johnston, Amentum, Education Committee, NSC-Huntsville; Dr. Dale Thomas, UAH Propulsion Center deputy director and ASGC director; and Terry Abel, Lockheed Martin, Education Committee, NSC-Huntsville.

    Alabama Space Grant Consortium receives second $20K donation from National Space Club - Huntsville

    Oct 15, 2025

    The Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has received a $20,000 donation from the National Space Club – Huntsville, marking the second year in a row th...


    Dr. Gary Zank is the director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and principal investigator for Future Technologies & enabling Plasma Processes.

    UAH researcher Dr. Gary Zank wins 2025 John Adam Fleming Medal, top prize in space physics

    Sep 30, 2025

    – Dr. Gary Zank, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and principal investigator for Future Technologies & enabling Plasma Processes (FTPP), has been selec...


    Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, gestures towards a colorful galaxy visualization projected behind them, illustrating cosmic elements and star movements.

    UAH researchers use pulsar accelerations to detect a dark matter sub-halo in the Milky Way for the first time

    Sep 08, 2025

    Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), and her team have published a new paper that for the first time uses binary and solitary pulsars to constrain prope...


    Dr. Massimiliano “Max” Bonamente, professor of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

    UAH researchers use X-rays from quasars to answer one of the three major questions in cosmology: where are the missing baryons?

    Sep 03, 2025

    Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, have published a series of two papers in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that resolve one of three major outstanding puz...


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