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UAH opens signup for Charger Innovation Challenge: Serious Games Edition, Spring 2026, to design impactful games for prizes, publishing opportunities

Jan 28, 2026

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is accepting student applications for the Charger Innovation Challenge (CIC): Serious Games Edition, a semester-long ‘hackathon’ launching in Spring 2026...

UAH ESV student competition team member Alex MacGregor in the UAH Traffic Lab.

UAH transportation engineering team advances to regional finals of international NHTSA Enhanced Safety of Vehicles student competition

Jan 27, 2026

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is gaining national attention for its growing leadership in transportation safety and engineering innovation, as a team of UAH students has been selected a f...

Dr. Emil Jovanov, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, with UAH President Charles L. Karr

UAH ECE researcher Dr. Emil Jovanov chosen a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Jan 13, 2026

Dr. Emil Jovanov, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the highest pro...

Successful launch of UAH Pegasus rocket near Marshall Space Flight Center.

UAH student team places third in 25th NASA Student Launch Challenge

Jun 26, 2025

A student team from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, placed third in the 2025 NASA Student Launch Challenge – University Student Launch Initiative (USLI). ...

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...

Joe Baldwin, Manager, Dassault Systèmes North America – Academics, and Col. John W. Jones, Director of the Aviation Test Laboratory at UAH, seated signed an agreement Standing behind them are Bill DeVries, Vice President Industry Transformation and Customer Success at Dassault Systèmes; Dr. David A. Puleo, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at UAH, and Dr. Robert Lindquist, Vice President for Research and Economic Development at UAH

UAH signs MOU with Dassault Systèmes to bolster workforce development for high-demand technology and manufacturing sectors

Dec 12, 2024

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will provide its students and faculty with world-class applications for product design, simulation and collaboration through an MOU with Dassault Systèmes ...

Artistic view of a NASA plane flying over gamma ray-glowing clouds in the Caribbean

UAH scientists help unveil dynamic gamma-ray emissions in tropical thunderclouds

Dec 06, 2024

Researchers from the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have partnered with atmospheric scientists from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to make groundbreaking discoveries about gamma-ray e...

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UAH Distinguished Lecture Series hosts former NSA Director, General Paul Nakasone

Oct 09, 2024

UAH hosted retired four-star General Paul M. Nakasone, former commander of the United States Cyber Command and former leader of the U.S. National Security Agency, as part of UAH’s 2024 Distinguished Lecture Series. ...

The FARM team collecting data in a tornado.

UAH becomes the largest mobile radar facility in the U.S. with the addition of the FARM to its deployable weather research fleet

Oct 04, 2024

With the addition of the Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets (FARM) team to its deployable weather research fleet, the Severe Weather Institute – Radar and Lightning Laboratories (SWIRLL) at UAH will be the largest and most comprehensive mobile...