UAH team ASTRA, a subset of the UAH Space Hardware Club, placed fifth among all United States teams.

UAH team places eighth internationally in 2024 University Rover Challenge

Jul 26, 2024

A team comprised of College of Engineering and College of Science students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, placed eight internationally in the 2024 University Rover Challenge (URC) in Mo...

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...

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 ...

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...

Future Technologies and Enabling Plasma Processes.

UAH-led FTPP recognized nationally as National Science Foundation ranks in top 10 best places to work

May 22, 2024

The $20 million, five-year Future Technologies and Enabling Plasma Processes (FTPP) initiative led by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, is cited in The Washington Post. ...

Students from The University of Alabama in the lab with the battery test equipment.

UAH researcher wins $279K NSF EPSCoR Fellowship to explore preventing catastrophic failures in lithium-ion battery packs in electric vehicles

Apr 25, 2024

Dr. Avimanyu Sahoo, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been awarded a U.S. National Science Foundation's Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Fellowship totaling $279,105 to study ways to en...

Students from The University of Alabama at the finish line

UAH engineering students top NASA HERC Rover Challenge for second consecutive year

Apr 24, 2024

For the second year in a row, engineering students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville, a part of the University of Alabama System, have captured first place in the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) competition. ...

Gamma Ray Burst

UAH astrophysics research advances understanding of how the light of gamma-ray bursts is produced

Apr 22, 2024

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of gamma radiation, typically generating more energy in a few seconds than the Sun will produce over its ten-billion-year lifetime. ...

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UAH ranks first in state in six categories of federal research expenditures, according to latest HERD Survey

Apr 10, 2024

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) ranks first in the State of Alabama in six categories of federal research expenditures, according to the most recent Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey. ...

Student from The University of Alabama in Huntsville standing in front of a group of people

Undergraduate Research celebrates 10th annual UAH Research Horizons Poster Session

Apr 08, 2024

Research undergraduates at The University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) participated in the 10th Annual Research Horizons Poster Session in March. ...