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Blast From the Past – Opening a Rocketry Time Capsule

Mar 19, 2015

UAH's Propulsion Research Center is preparing for its 25th anniversary next year, and the experimental roots of its faculty run even deeper. In 1956, 16-year-old Jimmy Blackmon did a very unusual thing for that time. He built a rocket from scratch ...


UAH Steel Bridge Team has span ready for ASCE/AISC competition

UAH Steel Bridge Team has span ready for ASCE/AISC competition

Mar 17, 2015

A 20-foot long, 4-foot wide, 4 1/2-foot tall steel bridge weighing around 120 pounds has been created by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Steel Bridge Team for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) steel bridge competition in ...


UAH in pilot AUVSI program to establish student clubs

UAH in pilot AUVSI program to establish student clubs

Mar 09, 2015

UAH is among six universities involved in a pilot program to establish student clubs for the Association of Unmanned/Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI). ...


Borrowing from whales to engineer a new fluid sensor

Borrowing from whales to engineer a new fluid sensor

Mar 02, 2015

How can a humpback whale and a device that works on the same principle as the clicker that starts your gas grill help an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fly longer and with more stability? Well, it all starts with biological structures called tuberc...


Noted researcher, historian Peter S. Alagona visits UAH  as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series

Noted researcher, historian Peter S. Alagona visits UAH as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series

Feb 23, 2015

Noted researcher, and historian Dr. Peter S. Alagona, will be the guest speaker for UAH Distinguished Speaker series next month. Alagona's talk entitled "Species Complex: Classification and Conservation in American Environmental History," will be ...


UAH lecturer who works for NASA is Engineer of the Year

UAH lecturer who works for NASA is Engineer of the Year

Feb 18, 2015

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has selected a part-time lecturer at UAH who is a NASA engineer as its 2015 Engineer of the Year for his work in Nuclear Thermal Rocket (NTR) propulsion. ...


Professor’s illustrious career leads to research innovations and broadened horizons for students

Professor’s illustrious career leads to research innovations and broadened horizons for students

Feb 17, 2015

It might be surprising to learn that Dr. Phil Ligrani, Eminent Scholar in Propulsion and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UAH, is an avid antique collector. His most exciting find to date? An original hand-colored copperplate li...


Call for Annual College of Engineering Award Nominations (2014-2015)

Call for Annual College of Engineering Award Nominations (2014-2015)

Feb 10, 2015

2014-2015 COE Outstanding Staff Award 2014-2015    COE Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award 2014-2015    COE Outstanding Faculty Research Award 2014-2015    COE Outstanding Faculty Service Award 2014-2...


NSF CAREER award enables UAH battery research

NSF CAREER award enables UAH battery research

Feb 04, 2015

Smaller, lighter electric car batteries that don't have to sacrifice longevity to be petite could be one benefit of basic research into lithium-ion battery nanomaterials at UAH. ...


14 get UAH New Faculty Research awards

14 get UAH New Faculty Research awards

Jan 30, 2015

Fourteen new tenure-track faculty members at UAH will share $127,213 in 2014-15 New Faculty Research (NFR) awards from UAH's Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. "We invested more UAH funds then we had originally ant...


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