HudsonAlpha Names East as Vice President for Educational Outreach

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Kelly East will lead the Educational Outreach department at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology as the new Vice President for Educational Outreach later this summer. East will report to the President and provide strategic leadership for the educational initiatives that advance the Institute’s mission and that further its role as a leader in STEM […]

Artemis Update: Despite minor test errors, wet dress rehearsal fires off smoothly

After a very long day of work, the Artemis team has earned a well-deserved chance to appreciate a job well done following the completion of its fourth wet dress rehearsal. NASA administrators announced during the post-wet dress teleconference that although the latest exercise wasn’t without a few hiccups, all of the critical targets had been […]

HudsonAlpha, University of Georgia CROPS Conference Addresses Plant Sustainability

Hundreds of scientists and agricultural researchers from across the country converged on HudsonAlpha from June 13-16 for a biotechnology conference hosted by the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. HudsonAlpha’s fourth annual CROPS conference marked the return to in-person meetings, with this year’s theme focusing on […]

Boeing Discusses Its Economic Impact, Celebrates 60 Years in Alabama

Boeing, Alabama’s largest aerospace company, commemorated its 60th year of operation in Huntsville with a presentation held on Tuesday, June 7 at the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce.  Chamber president and CEO Chip Cherry kicked off the event, noting that Boeing secured its first business license in Huntsville in 1962 and describing the company as […]

HudsonAlpha Welcomes Two New Associate Companies to its Campus

Huntsville, AL – Polaris Sensor Technologies and Madison Core Laboratories opened offices at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology earlier this year. “All of us welcome Polaris and Madison Core Labs to the HudsonAlpha campus,” said Carter Wells, Vice President for Economic Development at HudsonAlpha. “We look forward to working together, integrating their teams into the HudsonAlpha ecosystem.” Polaris Sensor Technologies is developing a novel method to disinfect and sterilize […]

Teledyne’s MUSES Celebrates 5th Anniversary in Space

Huntsville, AL – Yesterday marks the 5th anniversary of Teledyne Brown Engineering’s (TBE) International Space Station (ISS)-based Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES). MUSES is a precision-pointing platform for earth-viewing instruments, such as high-resolution digital cameras and hyperspectral imagers. MUSES can accommodate four payloads simultaneously and the ISS can robotically change, upgrade, and service those instruments. Teledyne Brown is responsible for […]

NASA Officials Provide Update on Artemis I

In a media teleconference held on Friday at Kennedy Space Center, NASA officials discussed the status of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the SLS and Orion spacecraft in advance of the uncrewed Artemis I lunar mission.  Tom Whitmeyer of the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.; Senior Vehicle Operations Manager Cliff […]

Starliner Completes Successful Mission; Looking Forward to Next

Following the successful launch of the NASA–Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), which carried the CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station, Starliner returned safely to Earth at 5:49 p.m. CDT on May 25 with a soft landing at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico a little over four hours after undocking from the ISS.  […]

HATCH 2022: HudsonAlpha’s 5th Annual Tech Challenge

Solving biotechnology’s stickiest issues continues to be an ongoing challenge for the scientific community.  For local high school students, college students, and some of the area’s professionals that recently participated in HudsonAlpha’s 5th Annual Tech Challenge (HATCH 2022), not only was there the possibility in gaining satisfaction in finding solutions, but there was also the […]

Open House Alert: HudsonAlpha Showcases its BioSkills Program

School’s out for the summer in just a matter of days, and for those with a strong interest in STEM, HudsonAlpha will be hosting an open house on Thursday, May 26th. This event will present to high school students and their parents an overview of the BioSkills program.  This event promises to provide participants with […]