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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (JUNE 16, 2026) – Can newly identified antiviral compounds help stop some of the most dangerous mosquito-borne viruses that attack the brain? A research team led by scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has generated a new class of antiviral compounds that show strong therapeutic potential against Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV), considered the most dangerous neurotropic alphavirus known to infect h...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (APR. 9, 2026) – The Alabama Office of the State Climatologist (AOSC), housed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is inviting Alabamians to participate in the annual "Rain Gauge Rally" by joining CoCoRaHS, the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. CoCoRaHS is a citizen science program made up of volunteer observers who measure and report rainfall across the nation. Each year, CoCoRaHS hosts the Rain G...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (MARCH 25, 2026) – Two Atmospheric and Earth Science (AES) graduate students from the at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, were recognized with top awards at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) recently in Houston, Texas. The First Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Climate was part of the AMS Annual Meeting, one of the premier gatherings of atmospheric scientists worldwide. The s...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (MAR. 17, 2026) – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, will host the Southeast Aerial Drone Competition (ADC) Regional Championship April 17–18 at Spragins Hall on the UAH campus. The event will bring middle and high school students from across the Southeast to Huntsville to compete in a series of team-based aerial drone challenges designed to test their technical knowledge, piloting skills and problem-solving abilities. Part...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.- MARCH. 6, 2026 – In an era defined by ambitions to return to the Moon and push onward to Mars, a groundbreaking partnership between NASA and Blue Origin is demonstrating how collaboration between government and industry can strengthen America's space capabilities and accelerate the growth of the commercial space economy. At the center of these efforts is the restoration and reuse of the Apollo-era Test Stand 4670 by Blue Origin at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (FEB. 19, 2026) – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is hosting its fifth annual Engineering Showcase as the signature event of Engineers Week 2026, Feb. 22 – 28. Held Tuesday, Feb. 24, from 5 - 7 p.m. in Room 112 of the Student Services Building on the UAH campus, the 2026 Showcase serves as the highlight of the week. Founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951, Engineers Week – also known as E-Wee...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (FEB. 24, 2026) – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, and ASKA have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) establishing a framework to explore collaborative research and development opportunities in advanced hybrid-electric, autonomous drive-and-fly vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Under the agreement, UAH's Rotorcraft Systems Engineering and Simulation Center (RSESC) and ASKA will examine potential areas of c...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (FEB. 27, 2026) – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, hosted the inaugural Army Best Drone Warfighter Competition on Feb. 17–19 at its Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) and Counter-UAS Test Range, highlighting the university's expertise in advanced uncrewed systems research, testing and training. The competition reinforces the UAH's role as a national leader in uncrewed systems integration and innovation. Sponsored by the Army...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (FEB. 11, 2026) – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, announced a major new partnership with Microsoft, which will join UAH’s Invention to Innovation Center (I²C) as a Corporate Innovation Partner. The collaboration marks a significant milestone for Huntsville and the federal technology community, reinforcing the region’s position as a national leader in defense, aerospace and advanced computing innovation. Through this p...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (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. Open to students of all majors, the challenge invites participants to design and develop "serious games" – games created to educate, train, improve health or drive social impact. Sign up by February 11th. The cha...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - February 6, 2026 – Transforming doctoral research into patented technology is a challenging achievement, particularly while completing a Ph.D. Dr. Aaron Werth and Dr. Rishabh Das, former doctoral students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, successfully navigated this process, earning U.S. patents for innovative cybersecurity technologies developed through their dissertation research at UAH's Center for Cybersecurity R...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (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 finalist in the 2026 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV) Student Competition. The regional North American finals take place this month, with the winners advancing t...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (DEC. 8, 2025) – Sarah Dalessi, a fifth-year student in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is the lead author of a paper on arXiv detailing the discovery of the fastest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded. GRB 230307A is a gamma-ray burst in the ultrarelativistic category, meaning the velocity of the GRB's jet, a focused beam of high-energy particles and photons, came within 99.99998 percent of t...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (DEC. 16, 2025) – Scientists search for "decaying" dark matter (DDM) because it offers unique signatures like specific X-ray or gamma-ray lines or neutrino signals not seen in normal matter, potentially revealing dark matter's particle nature, mass and interactions, information that could illuminate the universe's structure. DDM is a theoretical model where dark matter particles aren't perfectly stable, but slowly decay over vast cosmic timescales into lighter dark matter p...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (NOV. 25, 2025) – Three CanSat teams at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, placed first, second and sixth nationally in the 2025 International CanSat competition held in Monterey and Staunton, Va. UAH teams BlueStreak, Cosmos and Rotorstorm also placed sixth, eighth and fourteenth, respectively, in the international rankings for the annual event that showcases student-built CanSats, a type of miniature satellite designed t...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (NOV. 20, 2025) – Dr. Bramwell Brizendine, an assistant professor of computer science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, has been selected to receive the Young Faculty Award (YFA), an award of $500,000, from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The funding will support the researcher's work on Binary Emulation and Analysis Simulation Technology (BEAST), a cutting-edge system that aims to create a more powerful framework for emulating and analyzing m...
HUNTSVILLE, AL. (OCTOBER 30, 2025) – A new study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) by researchers from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, calls for invalidating the world record hottest temperature of 134 degrees F recorded in Death Valley, Calif., on July 10, 1913. UAH Earth System Science Center (ESSC) Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer and ESSC Director and Alabama State Climatologist Dr. John R. Christy e...
HUNTSVILLE, AL. (October 15, 2025) – The Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has received a $20,000 donation from the National Space Club – Huntsville, marking the second year in a row the group has made this donation to the ASGC. The funds help provide a long-term K-12 STEM engagement plan for the state that leverages the ASGC's connections to eight higher education institutions across Alabama, inc...
September 8, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – 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 properties of a dark matter sub-halo in our own galaxy. Sub-halos are smaller clumps of dark matter that reside within a larger dark matter halo – regions of invisible matter surrounding galaxies and galaxy clu...
September 3, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, have published a series of two papers in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that resolve one of three major outstanding puzzles in cosmology: the "missing baryon problem," a discrepancy between the amount of baryonic matter detected from shortly after the Big Bang when compared with recent epochs. Dr. Massimiliano "Max" Bonamente, a p...
HUNTSVILLE, AL. (SEPTEMBER 25, 2025)– This summer, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, hosted the SAPIENCE Drone Competition, an international Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) event supported by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science for Peace and Security Programme. SAPIENCE stands for "Sense & Avoid - a cooPeratIvE droNe CompEtition," a project that highlights the use of cutting-edge autonomous drone and AI technologies to s...
July 29, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL – The Terminus Spaceflight Research Group at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is set to send a new payload into space, a follow-up to the successful launch and retrieval of a previous Terminus payload in Aug. 2024. This time the student group, a subset of the Space Hardware Club at UAH, aims to loft a CubeSat-like device that will examine the potential of producing electrical energy by harnessing the heating experienced on reentry of the vehicle, as we...
July 23, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – 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 megacities to characterize air quality for U.S. urban centers leads to significant inaccuracies. Dr. Lee Tiszenkel, a UAH alumnus at the UAH Earth System Science Center and Dr. Shanhu Lee, a professor in the Department of Atm...
July 9, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL – 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. The award recognizes the student club's development of a patent pending of new type of gridded ion thruster. An ion thruster is a form of electric propulsion that creates a cloud of positive ions which is then accelerated using e...
June 9, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to develop a more accurate map of the outer gas disk of the Milky Way galaxy. The findings are being presented at the 246th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Anchorage, Alaska, on June 8-12, in conjunction with Michigan State University (MSU). The study e...
