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UAH researcher gains $95K USDA grant to help control Japanese beetle that causes $450M in U.S. damage annually

UAH researcher gains $95K USDA grant to help control Japanese beetle that causes $450M in U.S. damage annually

Sep 09, 2025

Japanese beetles cause approximately $450 million in damages every year to private lawns and golf courses alone. Now a UAH researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has won a $94,986 Un...


Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, gestures towards a colorful galaxy visualization projected behind them, illustrating cosmic elements and star movements.

UAH researchers use pulsar accelerations to detect a dark matter sub-halo in the Milky Way for the first time

Sep 08, 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 published a new paper that for the first time uses binary and solitary pulsars to constrain prope...


Sophia Vanderwaal, a Physics Major at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), visited the York Minster while on an undergraduate research trip to London.

Reaching for the Stars: How Sophia Vanderwaal is Shaping Her Future in Physics

Aug 20, 2025

Sophia Vanderwaal, a senior physics major at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), is helping push the boundaries of astrophysics. Under the mentorship of Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at ...


20 new faculty members to join The University of Alabama in Huntsville for fall 2025 are, front row, left to right, Bhaskar Gaur, Purva Diwanji, Amanda Markert, Zahra “Ideh” Kashefineyshaburi, Yue Xiao, Joshua Tonkel, Ryan Reynolds and Shauna Bowes, and back row, left to right, Daniel Krenn, Bailey Phillips, Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Jonathan Blakely, Abdullah Yildizbasi, Farhan Majid, April Urban, Sergio Garduno and Philip Burton.

UAH welcomes 21 new faculty members as 2025-26 academic year begins

Aug 19, 2025

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) welcomes 21 new faculty members to its ranks as the 2025-26 academic year begins with the start of classes on Aug. 20. UAH is a part of The University of Alabama System. ...


Jackson Griggs, who is double majoring in biological sciences and psychology with a chemistry minor, plans to become a physician in rural Alabama.

Jackson Griggs Pursues Medicine with Purpose Through UAH and Rural Internship Opportunities

Aug 14, 2025

Jackson Griggs is a student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) who is double majoring in biological sciences and psychology with a chemistry minor. On the pre-health track, Griggs balances a demanding academic schedule with a varie...


Elijah Shannon, a senior computer science major at UAH, is conducting research focused on detecting misleading AI-generated content online.

Shaping the Future of AI: Elijah Shannon Leads Research and Student Innovation

Aug 14, 2025

Elijah Shannon, a senior at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) majoring in computer science, is helping define the future of artificial intelligence. As the founding president of the newly established Data Science and Artificial Intelligen...


Students from Germany and the Southeastern U.S. arrive on the UAH campus to take part in International Space Camp exploring space weather science and its global impacts.

UAH hosts students from Germany and Southeastern U.S. at International Space Weather Camp

Aug 13, 2025

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, recently welcomed students from across the Southeastern U.S. and Germany to the International Space Weather Camp (ISWC), a two-week immersive program explori...


UAH researcher wins $681K NSF CAREER award to study the interaction of shockwaves and solar wind turbulence in the sun’s heliosphere

UAH researcher wins $681K NSF CAREER award to study the interaction of shockwaves and solar wind turbulence in the sun’s heliosphere

Jul 24, 2025

Dr. Lingling Zhao, an assistant professor in the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been awarded a $681,356 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development...


Dr. Lee Tiszenkel, a UAH alumnus at the UAH Earth Systems Science Center, performs field research in Houston, Texas, focused on atmospheric ultrafine particles that can impact urban air quality

UAH first-of-its-kind study shows air quality data derived from megacities are not accurate when applied to U.S. urban centers

Jul 23, 2025

Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have published a paper in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment that demonstrates for the first time that using data gathered on atmospheric particles from Chinese meg...


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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