Patrick Porter, Vice President, Flight Test and Flight Operations at Honda Aircraft Company; Clay Mowry, AIAA CEO and President of the International Astronautical Federation; Claude Blue, UAH aerospace engineering student, Research Lead of STARGATE project and President of Electric Propulsion Club, NASA Space Grant Scholar Jeffrey King, current STARGATE Chief Electrical Engineer and former Navy nuclear electrician; and Kurt Polzin, Chief Engineer - NASA’s Space Nuclear Propulsion Project

UAH student group Electric Propulsion Club wins first place at 2025 AIAA conference for new satellite propulsion system

Jul 09, 2025

The Electric Propulsion Club at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) won first place at the 2025 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Conference Region II Student Conference in Raleigh, N.C. ...

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UAH announces promotion, tenure awards for 2025-26, past year’s grants of emeritus status

Jun 11, 2025

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) announced awards of tenure and/or promotion for 22 faculty members and recognized eight who were granted emeritus status over the past year at the University Awards for Excellence. ...

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UAH researcher unveils new map of Milky Way galaxy in atomic hydrogen, revealing its clumped “flocculent” nature for first time

Jun 09, 2025

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to develop a more accurate map of the outer gas dis...

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Alabama Space Grant Consortium names scholarship, fellowship winners for 2025-2026

Jun 02, 2025

The Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) has announced the recipients of its 2025-26 scholarships and fellowships. ASGC is located on the campus of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System. ...

Poster Session at the HEOS Cookout in Spring, 2025. Photo courtesy HEOS.

Building Connections Through Light: HEOS Hosts Annual Cookout at UAH

May 19, 2025

The Huntsville Electro-Optical Society (HEOS) recently held its annual cookout at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) with clear goals in mind: to build community, encourage students, and celebrate innovation in optics and photonics. While ...

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Student projects highlight research innovation in 2025 Graduate Poster Session

Apr 07, 2025

The Graduate School at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) hosted its annual UAH Graduate Poster Session in the Student Services Building on the UAH campus, a part of the University of Alabama System. ...

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UAH physics researcher proposes first-time model that replaces dark energy and dark matter in explaining nature of the universe

Apr 07, 2025

Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a paper in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity that proposes a universe built on steps of multip...

Dr. Gary Zank, director of the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), holding a model of the Parker Solar Probe and SWEAP instrument suite created by Blake Parker

UAH development of SWEAP instruments helps Parker Solar Probe win 2024 Collier Trophy

Apr 01, 2025

The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument suite developed by researchers at The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and the Marshall Space Flight Center for NASA’s Parker...

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UAH celebrates Research Week with 11th Research Horizons Poster Session highlighting undergraduate student innovation

Mar 03, 2025

To celebrate Research Week, Undergraduate Research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is highlighting the 11th UAH Research Horizons Poster Session, March 4. ...

Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way

UAH breakthrough enables the measurement of local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time

Feb 25, 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 pioneered the use of gravitational acceleration measurements of binary pulsars to help illuminate...