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Family honors aerospace engineering pioneer with Ronald Lee Lancaster Memorial Scholarship 

Feb 16, 2023

Esther Lancaster, wife of Ronald “Ron” Lee Lancaster, has pledged $25,000 to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to establish a scholarship for students pursuing mechanical or aerospace engineering. ...

Dr. Vladimir Kolobov

New plasma stratification computer model has manufacturing, space science uses

Dec 12, 2022

Manufacturers using plasma processes in semiconductor production and materials processing will have a new tool to avoid undesirable plasma stratifications using a computer striations model developed by UAH and CFD Research Corp. ...

Robert Preece

UAH has mission and science roles in LEAP project selected by NASA for further study

Sep 19, 2022

A proposed space mission involving The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been selected by NASA for the second time as part of a group of four for a possible future deployment. ...

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ESA Solar Orbiter confirms solar switchback origin theory by UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank

Sep 12, 2022

For the first time a solar switchback has been directly observed that confirms 2020 models by astrophysicist Dr. Gary Zank at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) that theorized how these surprising structures in the solar wind originate.h...

Aerospace Engineering grad, Neil Laya

Aerospace Engineering grad Neil Laya wins Alabama Space Grant Consortium Fellowship

Sep 01, 2022

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has announced that Neil Laya, an aerospace engineering graduate student, has been awarded an Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) Fellowship. Laya also was recently recognized for receiving Honorable M...

An advisory board for the new high-performance computing hub will make making decision-making a collective experience, says Dr. Vladimir Florinski.

Grant establishes UAH as hub for statewide university high-performance computing

Aug 30, 2022

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will become the Alabama hub for statewide high-performance computing (HPC) under a nearly $1 million two-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. ...

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Alumna Tia Ferguson recalls the time she trekked to the South Pole to retrieve a NASA experiment

Jul 11, 2022

In 2008, Tia Ferguson, (MS, electrical engineering, ’03) ventured to a place so remote and forbidding, even veteran world travelers can be daunted by the prospect of such a journey. ...

Lingling Zhao

Oak Ridge Associated Universities selects Dr. Lingling Zhao for Powe Award

Jun 02, 2022

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) has selected Dr. Lingling Zhao, an assistant professor of space science at UAH, for a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. ...

Gary Zank

$20 million UAH-led partnership to boost Alabama in plasma science and engineering

May 16, 2022

Nine Alabama universities and one private firm are partnered in a new $20 million, five-year effort led by UAH to develop transformative technologies in plasma science and engineering (PSE) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Establishe...

Dr. Gang Li

$2.3 million NSF grant boosts UAH effort to predict harmful solar weather events

May 05, 2022

When big blasts of energy from the sun envelop the Earth, they can be so strong that a 2015 event so weakened Earth’s protective magnetic field that it penetrated to the atmosphere, posing a threat to everything from circling space station astron...