Glaukos Corporation sees a bright future in Huntsville

Being one in a million is a dream, being one amongst over a hundred is a reality for Huntsville in a recent business decision that adds yet another feather to the Rocket City’s crowded cap.  Cummings Research Park is getting a new tenant with an eye on the future – Glaukos Corporation – which is […]

Artemis program key to Huntsville’s role in the expanding aerospace industry

NASA is going back to the moon, and Huntsville is right at the heart of making it happen. The Artemis program is a key part of NASA’s Moon to Mars campaign.  NASA’s Artemis missions will establish a base camp on the moon and the Gateway outpost in the moon’s orbit.  Each mission will provide knowledge […]

Embracing organizational integrity in the workplace

One of the essential ingredients in forming an effective and welcoming workplace environment is organizational integrity. It is also one of the four CODE components of the adaptive leadership model.  Workplaces with high organizational integrity attract better job candidates and retain good employees longer, even in a highly competitive job market. For this reason, it […]

Local institutions partner to be a part of five-year, $12.7M initiative to launch new Gulf Scholars Program

The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has awarded a $600,000 grant to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to join the Gulf Scholars Program (GSP). This funding is part of a larger five-year, $12.7 million initiative aimed at preparing undergraduate students to tackle environmental, health, energy, […]

Real Estate Update: Recent report shows seasonal slowdown

The Alabama Association of Realtors released its October 2024 Alabama Economic and Real Estate Report.  The report indicated a slowdown in real estate sales across the state, which the report attributed to a combination of high interest rates, which spiked up to 6.72% by late October, and seasonal slowdown typical for fall.  Alabama recorded 4,880 […]

HudsonAlpha hosts Nobel Laureate Dr. Harold Varmus for talk on cancer research and scientific innovation

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology hosted a talk with Nobel Laureate Dr. Harold Varmus on the evening of November 19 at the Jackson Center.  Dr. Varmus, working alongside his University of California San Francisco colleague Dr. Michael Bishop, discovered oncogenes. This discovery earned the two men the Nobel Prize in the category “Physiology or Medicine” in […]

UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank Honored with 2024 Distinguished Science Award by National Space Club Huntsville

The National Space Club (NSC), Huntsville Chapter, awarded Dr. Gary Zank of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) the 2024 Distinguished Science Award at the 36th Annual Dr. Wernher von Braun Memorial Dinner on Oct. 30. Zank, who holds the Aerojet/Rocketdyne Chair in Space Science and directs UAH’s Center for Space Physics and Aeronomic […]

HudsonAlpha, gener8tor launch AgTech Accelerator’s fall cohort to drive agricultural innovation

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, in collaboration with global venture firm gener8tor, has announced the six agriculture technology startups selected for the Fall 2024 HudsonAlpha AgTech Accelerator. The accelerator program, based in Huntsville, kicked off earlier this month and will invest up to $100,000 in each startup. Focused on advancing agricultural innovation, the accelerator provides selected […]

North Alabama engineers honored at National SWE Conference for outstanding community contributions

Two members of the North Alabama professional section of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) were honored with awards at the annual conference, WE24, in Chicago, Illinois. The conference was held from October 24 to 26.  Shela Joyce, Continuous Improvement Lean Specialist at IPEX, and Rachel Carter Snoddy, Software Engineer at Boeing, were recognized for […]

UAH researcher awarded $300,000 NSF grant to bolster security in intelligent cyber-physical systems

Dr. Avimanyu Sahoo, an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has secured a $299,969 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study vulnerabilities in learning-based intelligent cyber-physical systems (CPS) and develop defense strategies. This research is part of a $600,000 collaboration with Dr. […]