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October 1, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – Light the way to better health at SHINE 2025: the Symposium for Health Innovation and Neighborhood Engagement. Hosted by the College of Nursing at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), SHINE brings together community changemakers, health professionals and policymakers to spark innovation, strengthen partnerships and drive real change in access to health care for all. UAH is a part of The University of Alabama System. "At UAH, we're committed to s...
Rob Hainer // Shutterstock Best public colleges in America Earning a college degree is an investment with far-reaching benefits. According to February 2025 data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, adults with bachelor's degrees earn a median of $20,000 more per year than those with a high school diploma. This increased income can mean a big difference in quality of life, from being able to afford a home to lower instances of poverty and even longer life expectancy. Those statistics may...
Best community colleges in 2025 Community college can be the pathway to creating more lifelong income, with associate’s degree holders earning 14% more — or $6,496 more per year — than those with a high school education. But while tuition and fees tend to be less expensive for community colleges than four-year degrees, it still costs a median $5,040 per year to complete two semesters of coursework, and in many cases can cost upwards of $10,000 per year. Given the time and monetary inves...
September 24, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) College of Business and Science Applications International Corporation (NASDAQ: SAIC) celebrate another stage in their longstanding partnership with the announcement of a $50,000 donation from the company to launch the UAH Cloud Center of Excellence. The program will provide students with direct access to cloud-computing education and trainings in order to grow their professional development skills and expand t...
Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University during fall. Winston Tan // Shutterstock Best colleges in America The 2024-2025 school year saw a growing number of students at campuses nationwide. Undergraduate enrollment was up by 3.2% in the spring of 2025, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. That increase is all the more noteworthy when you consider the current price tag for a college education—per the Education Data Initiative, the average cost of one year at a h...
Back to school, back to the bus. Why that yellow ride still defines childhood You didn’t need an alarm clock. You had the school bus. And its arrival was unmistakable — the low diesel growl echoing down the block, the squeal of brakes, the faint smell of exhaust mixing with morning dew. Step inside and you were hit with the same sensory cocktail every kid knows: cracked Naugahyde seats sticky in summer, rattling windows that never quite shut, and the odd mystery gum fused under the bench sin...
Texas passed a Bible-themed curriculum. But many districts aren’t using it This coming school year, the Fairfield, Texas, school district, about halfway between Dallas and Houston, will roll out a new K-5 reading program that includes multiple biblical references, The 74 reports. But the staff, hoping to avoid debates over families’ religious beliefs, has chopped roughly 30 sections out of the curriculum, including a kindergarten lesson on the Golden Rule featuring Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and...
Mastering the college application process The 2024-2025 admissions cycle flipped the script. Application surges, shifting test policies, and AI tools have reshaped how colleges choose students. For applicants in 2025-2026, it’s more competitive, but also full of opportunity. Scholarship Institute compiled a college application guide to help you work the system, not get worked by it. The rules, both official and unwritten, are changing fast, but staying on top of timelines and putting effort i...
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...
This state's kindergarten vaccination rates decline as more parents claim exemptions New childhood vaccination data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that Georgia vaccination rates are decreasing, with 86.8% of the state’s children fully up-to-date on their required vaccines when they entered kindergarten last year. The state’s exemption rate is also on the rise, at 4.8%, with most granted for religious rather than medical reasons. But that’s not the whole story...
September 4, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is proud to welcome students, alumni, parents, families and friends to campus for Family & Friends Weekend 2025, a four-day celebration of Charger spirit and community from Thursday, Sept. 18, through Sunday, Sept. 21. UAH is a part of The University of Alabama System. The weekend enables guests to experience UAH in their own way, with a wide variety of activities across campus and throughout the Rocket City. T...
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...
Back-to-school 2025: 5 tips for helping last-minute shoppers save money Whether you’re sending a kindergartener off to their first day or helping your college senior gear up for campus life, back-to-school shopping can get expensive fast, especially when shopping last minute. According to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey, families with students in elementary through high school plan to spend an average of $858.07 on clothing, shoes, school supplies, and electronics—slightly down...
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...
Gorodenkoff // Shutterstock Best public middle schools in Alabama Stacker compiled a list of the best public middle schools in Alabama using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: academics grade, teachers grade, district overall grade, culture & diversity grade, and parent / student surveys. You can read more about the methodology here. Online schools were not included in the list. PeopleImages.com - Yuri A // Shutterstock #10. Saraland Middle/Nelson Adams -...
1 ways to save on back-to-school shopping Come August, and it’s time to enjoy the last weeks of steamy summer weather, visit the pool and beaches, and—if you’re a student or the parent of one—do your back-to-school shopping. Doing so can be expensive. Families with students in elementary through high school are planning to spend $858.07 on average on electronics, school supplies, clothing and shoes, and that figure jumps to $1,325.85 for families of college students, according to the Nationa...
Survey: 60% of teachers used AI this year and saved up to 6 hours of work a week Nearly two-thirds of teachers utilized artificial intelligence this past school year, and weekly users saved almost six hours of work per week, according to a recently released Gallup survey. But 28% of teachers still oppose AI tools in the classroom. The 74 breaks down the findings from the poll, published by the research firm and the Walton Family Foundation in June, which includes perspectives from 2,232 U.S....
What is contributing to rising college costs? Higher education tuition has doubled in the last 20 years, with some institutions today hitting the $100,000 mark for a four-year degree. These escalating costs have discouraged many prospective students from taking the leap into academia, as well as those experiencing waves of ballooning debt. However, it’s not only students who feel the pinch. As costs rise, higher education institutions and communities feel it, too. The prospect of federal f...
Monkey Business Images // Shutterstock Best private K-12 schools in the Birmingham metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best private K-12 schools in the Birmingham metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: top colleges score, college enrollment, culture & diversity grade, parent / student surveys, and student teacher ratio. You can read more about the methodology here. GUNDAM_Ai // Shutterstock #15. Tabernacle Christian School - Location: Garde...
SeventyFour // Shutterstock Best private K-12 schools in the Huntsville metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best private K-12 schools in the Huntsville metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: top colleges score, college enrollment, culture & diversity grade, parent / student surveys, and student teacher ratio. You can read more about the methodology here. DenisProduction.com // Shutterstock #13. Huntsville Christian Academy - Location:...
Gorodenkoff // Shutterstock Best private K-12 schools in the Mobile metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best private K-12 schools in the Mobile metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: top colleges score, college enrollment, culture & diversity grade, parent / student surveys, and student teacher ratio. You can read more about the methodology here. Anna Jurkovska // Shutterstock #12. Central Christian School - Location: Robertsdale, AL -...
Roman Kosolapov // Shutterstock Best private K-12 schools in the Montgomery metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best private K-12 schools in the Montgomery metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: top colleges score, college enrollment, culture & diversity grade, parent / student surveys, and student teacher ratio. You can read more about the methodology here. panitanphoto // Shutterstock #15. Lowndes Academy - Location: Lowndesboro, AL -...
July 31, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) College of Business and Keel Point, an independent wealth advisory firm, recently celebrated the start of their new $100,000 collaboration – the Keel Point Professorship in Family Wealth – and welcomed the return to UAH of the professor who will fill that role, Dr. Frank Mullins. UAH and Keel Point representatives described the significance of the partnership during a check presentation ceremony on July 9 at the B...
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...
