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Chrys Arreola Padilla and Annika Nittmo piloting the land rover

UAH team takes first in 2023 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge

Apr 25, 2023

A team from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) placed first in the 2023 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) this year. ...


Dr. Aaron Naeger, Dr. Susan Alexander and Dr. Michael Newchurch, left to right

UAH researchers to gain revolutionary data on air pollutants from new NASA instrument launch

Apr 07, 2023

A team of air-quality researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, expects to receive vital data from a new NASA instrument launched into space Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket toward its host...


Ronan Lucey and Kaylee Sharp assess power outages in turkey from a computer

UAH researchers use Earth observations to identify damage, impacts from earthquakes in Turkey

Mar 28, 2023

Two researchers from the UAH Earth System Science Center (ESSC) are using Earth observations to help those on the ground in Turkey make informed decisions. ...


Laura Provenzani staff photo.

UAH-led statewide effort to apply plasma technologies reaches out to broad coalition

Mar 08, 2023

A statewide UAH led effort to fund, develop and commercialize plasma research and the high-tech workforce it requires is reaching out to a broad coalition of researchers, students, businesspeople and the public with a goal of stimulating thousands ...


Amber Porteous

Aerospace engineering student Amber Porteous named Brooke Owens Fellow

Feb 24, 2023

Amber Porteous, an aerospace engineering senior from Mobile, Ala., slated to graduate in May, has been selected to receive the Brooke Owens Fellowship. ...


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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. ...


Eui metis composite zoom

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...


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