Cutting-edge, state of the art weather and climate data and analyses for Alabama business and governmental stakeholders is the goal of a new partnership between The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and Regional Earth System Predictability Research LLC (RESPR), a company with a UAH alumnus as its chief executive officer (CEO). RESPR CEO Dr. […]

Improved air quality monitoring is the goal of a research collaboration to develop a machine learning model that involves The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, and Spelman College in Atlanta. “The model being developed will incorporate unprecedented satellite observations of air pollutants in the troposphere, along […]

Development of a new concept for a solid-fueled ramjet using a rotating detonation engine (RDE) for hypersonic air-breathing propulsion at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has attracted a three-year, $1.5 million grant. The project’s principal investigator is Dr. Gabe Xu (pronounced shoe), an associate professor […]

Registration is open for the 14th annual Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium, set to be held both online and in person Oct. 12-14 at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System. “We have some great NASA leadership participating including Kathy Lueders, Jim Reuter, Bob Cabana and Jim Free,” […]

The Huntsville community is beginning to focus attention on Artemis I, the coming test launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), and Dr. Dale Thomas, an eminent scholar and professor of industrial and systems engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), will be watching with keen personal and professional interest. SLS is the […]

A research paper that found a significant warming bias globally in the newest climate models was co-authored by John Christy, a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The paper has been cited by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as among the top 10% most downloaded during 2020 from its […]

Two different strategies to discover and perfect pharmaceuticals active against the COVID-19 virus have attracted a half million dollars in research funding to support five institutions, including the Baudry Lab at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). The lab, led by Dr. Jerome Baudry (pronounced Bō-dre), a molecular biophysicist and the Mrs. Pei-Ling Chan Chair in […]

Huntsville native Casey Eaton, a doctoral student in systems engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), is one of 36 women from 22 countries to be awarded a $10,000 Zonta International Amelia Earhart (AE) Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year. Eaton graduated summa cum laude from UAH in May 2019 with a bachelor’s […]

Research on a better way to deliver chemotherapy drugs to reduce side effects earned a dual enrollment student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and Bob Jones High School in Madison third place in the material science category of the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair 2021 (ISEF). Kailyn Grant, a rising senior at Bob […]

After a scheduled November launch, when NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) achieves orbit and unfurls the 18 gold-coated beryllium segments of its 6.5-meter primary mirror, over two decades of crucial UAH partnership in the project will also blossom. The technical challenges of JWST allied UAH as a partner in the international project with NASA’s […]

A scientifically mysterious, isolated cloud bigger than the Milky Way has been found by a research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in a “no-man’s land” for galaxies. The so-called orphan or lonely cloud is full of hot gas with temperatures of 10,000-10,000,000 degrees Kelvin (K) and a total mass 10 billion times the […]

Fifteen deaf and hard of hearing high school students from at least nine states are learning about cybersecurity and computer technologies this week during the fifth annual GenCyber Camp for deaf and hard of hearing students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System. “Due to the […]

Research to improve space weather predictions by Dr. Nikolai Pogorelov at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, will boost abilities crucial to the success of the defense mission of the Space Force Command that’s set to be located here. “The cutting-edge research being done by Dr […]

Ten high school students with blindness and visual impairments are learning about cybersecurity this week at a GenCyber Camp at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System. The students from Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina will be exposed to a wide range of cybersecurity and computer topics […]

A unique storage system for a U.S. Navy Submersible developed by a senior design class team in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will be in the running for actual Navy use. “I have had teams work with the U.S. Special Operations Command in previous […]

Two teams from a senior design moon buggy class at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, are competing in a pandemic modified version of NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC). In January, MAE 490/1-05 Senior Design Moon Buggy class teams Twisted Metal and Falcon presented a […]

Research activities at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) continue to rank among the top federally funded programs in the United States, according to the latest information available from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The annual NSF Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey ranked six UAH programs in the top 20 nationally, up […]

Yamaha Corporation of America has named The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, as a 2021 honoree in its inaugural Institution of Excellence program, acknowledging the school’s extraordinary commitment to innovation in the study of music. Only 10 outstanding schools nationwide earned the prestigious designation this year. […]

Huntsville is the No. 2 midsize metro nationwide that’s most prepared to work from home, according to a report by Filterbuy.com, and the city’s connectivity, workforce and job mix have a lot to do with that, says an associate professor of management at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). “Huntsville is a booming community and some […]

Two recent research accomplishments in which the UAH Department of Biological Sciences closely collaborated with partners from outside the university illustrate the strength in such partnerships. Dr. Jerome Baudry (pronounced Bō-dre), a molecular biophysicist and the Mrs. Pei-Ling Chan Chair in Biological Sciences, joined with Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) to employ its Cray Sentinel supercomputer […]

The first-time discovery of a giant flare from a neutron star that’s outside Earth’s galactic neighborhood is the subject of a new research paper in the journal Nature that has four co-authors from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System. “This is the first time we could claim, without a […]

A novel sensor network using glass fibers to safeguard drinking water supplies is being developed under a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant in a cross-campus collaboration at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System. The grant is through the EPA’s P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition […]

Hello? Is there anybody out there? It’s one of humankind’s most interesting questions. Are we alone in the universe? Is Earth the singular planet supporting life among the billions and billions of planets circling stars light years away? Research by Dr. Gary Zank at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the […]

There are promising new laboratory results in an award-winning effort to find naturally occurring compounds that are therapeutic against the COVID-19 virus. So far, 35 of 125 naturally occurring compounds identified computationally at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to have potential against COVID-19 that have shown computational efficacy are undergoing first-batch testing at […]