New faculty members who joined The University of Alabama in Huntsville community in 2024, front row, left to right, Deanna Womble, Jackson Lawrence, Will Waldron, Hannah Nolte, Melissa Miasek, Preston Miller and Summer Atkins and, back row, left to right, Charles O’Brien, Daniel Walsh, Natalie Click, Henrick Haule, Jeffery Williams, Evan Miller and Cheng Chen.

As fall 2024 semester begins, UAH welcomes 25 new faculty members to Charger community

Aug 23, 2024

As the 2024-2025 academic year begins, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) welcomes 25 new faculty members who joined the Charger community in 2024. ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science.

UAH researcher wins $750K EPSCoR

Aug 05, 2024

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has won a $750,000 Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) award to support STROBE-X, a planned $1 billion probe-class NASA observatory that aims to unl...

The UAH TERMINUS Spaceflight Research Group displays the tethers

UAH TERMINUS student group set to launch biggest, most advanced spacecraft with NASA

Jul 25, 2024

This August, a student team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, is set to launch its biggest payload yet into the upper atmosphere from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va...

Terry Abel, Lockheed Martin, Education Committee, NSC-Huntsville; Dr. Dale Thomas, UAH Propulsion Center deputy director and ASGC director; Steve Cash, Axient Corp., President, NSFC-Huntsville; and Andrew Johnston, Jacobs, Education Committee, NSC-Huntsville.

Alabama Space Grant Consortium receives 20k donation

Jul 19, 2024

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 (NSC) - Huntsville Chapter to support a 2024-2025 s...

Outreach program designed to help students in grades 9-12 prepare for their college experience

UAH College of Science hosts STEM Summer Institute for area high schoolers

Jul 15, 2024

In June and July, the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) a part of the University of Alabama System, hosted two weeks of activities in support of the 2024 CAP & GOWN Project STEM Summer Institute. ...

Dr. Federico Fraternale, Research Scientist 1 at the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR)

Research scientist’s “one-of-a-kind” model of the heliosphere wins $824k NASA heliophysics grant

Jun 18, 2024

Dr. Federico Fraternale at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been awarded a $824,132 NASA heliophysics grant to develop new global models of the heliosphere that incorporate interstellar ...

Promotions Tenure

UAH promotion, tenure awards for 2024-2025 year given to 25 outstanding faculty members

Jun 07, 2024

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) recognized 25 faculty members for their outstanding performance and overall excellence by awarding them tenure and/or promotion starting with the 2024-2025 academic year. ...

Milky Way are more prominent than expected, leading researchers to determine the last major galactic collision occured only three billion years ago

UAH researcher demonstrates Milky Way’s last major galactic collision happened much more recently than previously thought

Jun 06, 2024

Dr. Tom Donlon, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, is the lead author of a new paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that reveal...

Dr. Richard Lieu, distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at UAH.

UAH researcher shows, for the first time, gravity can exist without mass, mitigating the need for hypothetical dark matter

Jun 06, 2024

Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that is implied by gravitational effects that can’t be explained by general relativity unless more matter is present in the universe than can be seen. ...

UAH alumni Dr. Jared Fuchs and Dr. Christopher Helmerich.

UAH researcher leads groundbreaking paper that warp drive is possible through known physics

May 29, 2024

Two researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have published a paper that demonstrates for the first time that a subluminal warp drive is possible within the bounds of known physics without the need to employ exotic unknown forms...