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 ...

A graduate student discusses their research at a poster session, featuring various charts and visuals about AI methods.

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. ...

A vibrant spiral galaxy with bright blue and red regions, showcasing star formation against a dark cosmic background.

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...

A person holds an open equipment case, displaying various electronic components and wiring, set in a laboratory environment.

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...

NGC 4696, a galaxy within the Centaurus galaxy cluster, 170 million miles from Earth.

UAH physics undergrad co-authors breakthrough study in the journal Nature probing motion of gas in a galaxy cluster

Feb 12, 2025

Kokoro Hosogi, a physics student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has achieved a rare honor for an undergraduate: her contributions are being recognized in a study published in the journal Nature. ...

Claude Blue, research lead and EPC president; Noa Milivojevic, EPC chief mechanical engineer Ella Hazle, aerospace engineering sophomore; Dmitri Tsahelnik, aerospace engineering and physics sophomore. 

UAH Electric Propulsion Club seeks patent for experimental ion thruster developed by EPC students; presents at International Astronautical Congress in Italy

Jan 07, 2025

The Electric Propulsion Club (EPC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), recently traveled to Milan, Italy, to present STARGATE, an experimental gridded ion thruster developed by the group, at the 75th International Astronautical Congre...

Dr. Mehmet Sarp Yalim, a research scientist 1 in the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR).

UAH researcher wins $608k SHINE grant to study Joule heating in the sun’s atmosphere for clues to the biggest mystery in heliophysics

Sep 18, 2024

Dr. Mehmet Sarp Yalim, a research scientist in the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has won a $608,000 National Science Foundation (...

Former UAH student and model maker (right) Blake Parker presents models of the Voyager and Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft to (left) Dr. Gary Zank, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research

CSPAR gains two scale models of spacecraft crucial to its work, courtesy of UAH alumnus

Sep 12, 2024

Two scale models of spacecraft that provide research data to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) have joined a Parker Solar Probe model on prominent display at CSPAR offices in Cramer...