Innovate Alabama awards more than $3 million in small business grants

Innovate Alabama announced the second round of recipients of the Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant, awarding more than $3 million to 19 small businesses across the state. The funds will be used to help these local business owners grow roots in Alabama by supporting the development and marketability of modern technology.  The initiative will continue to enhance Alabama’s […]

Undergraduate Research celebrates 9th annual UAH Research Horizons Poster Session

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Last Week, undergraduates at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) participated in the ninth annual UAH Research Horizons Poster Session at the Charger Union.  A total of 34 projects were presented by the students who conducted the work, with selected projects recognized for excellence in research and creative scholarship. Each year […]

UAH leads $20 million statewide effort to apply plasma technologies

 A statewide University of Alabama in Huntsville  (UAH)-led effort to fund, develop and commercialize plasma research and the high-tech workforce it requires is reaching out to a broad coalition of researchers, students, businesspeople and the public with a goal of stimulating thousands of high-paying jobs in Alabama and the Southeast.   “Effective outreach is essential for […]

Dynetics completes critical hardware demonstrations for sustainable human landing system

Dynetics, a branch of the Leidos enterprise, has successfully completed more than a dozen hardware tasks on its sustainable human landing system (HLS) program over the past 17 months. Those tasks, which include design, build and test of critical technologies, lay the groundwork for development of the complete lander system. “Our team has continued to […]

NASA awards $217M contract to Huntsville’s PCI Productions

PCI Productions, LLC, a media production company owned by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, has been selected by NASA to manage a critically important contract, valued at up  to $217 million, in communication services for all its’ agency centers. The contract will exponentially expand the creation and dissemination of practical and appropriate NASA information […]

Future tech leaders spend the weekend competing in HudsonAlpha Tech Challenge

This past weekend, 50 people composed of professionals, college students and high schoolers spent their entire weekend coding and working on their projects for the 6th annual HudsonAlpha Tech Challenge (HATCH.)  HATCH is a life sciences hackathon where participants compete to solve real-world issues faced by biotechnology researchers and innovators in genomics, genetics, and bioinformatics. […]

Huntsville Student Talks Internships, Biotechnology in New Book

When Martha Greer Walker started her internship in July of last year at the HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), she was still exploring future career options and was looking to answer some major questions about what the biotechnology field could do for young professionals. Like many other high school students, she was looking at the […]

Huntsville selected as one of 16 host cities for new multi-million dollar Esports national initiative

Huntsville’s reputation as the 4th Most Prosperous City in the Nation continues to attract new industry, key developments, and community initiatives that help shape the local economy. And now, a new industry has turned its eye on the once-small Rocket city: Electronic Sports (Esports). ExploreSkillz Discovery, Inc. has announced that Huntsville has been included in […]

UAH hosts 2nd Annual Engineering Showcase to celebrate Engineers Week 2023

HUNTSVILLE, AL – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, hosted the second annual UAH Engineering Showcase during Engineers Week 2023, Feb. 19 – 25. Founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951, EWeek is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of, […]

Huntsville’s Torch Announces Two Executive Promotions

Torch Technologies announced the promotions of Sam Burkett to Senior Vice President and Brady Porter to Vice President effective February 1, 2023. Mr. Sam Burkett Burkett joined Torch in 2016 and manages the Torch Air Force Weapons Group headquartered in Shalimar, FL, with employee-owners in Albuquerque, NM, Dayton, OH, Boston, MA, Hampton, VA, Las Vegas, […]