The Huntsville City Council’s regular meeting Thursday night turned into a marathon session that lasted for nearly five hours, and one resolution that met with much debate was approved by the slimmest of margins. Representatives for Huntsville, Scottsboro and Athens proposed to form the North Alabama Public Energy District, a cooperative district, which seeks to […]
Land wealth transfer, carbon technology for craft breweries, farm managing shellfish and seaweed, reducing waste and maximizing animal carcass value. These were themes at the Founders Red Carpet Premiere, the title of Monday night’s HudsonAlpha AgTech Accelerator Showcase, powered by gener8tor, that marked the end of the fifth and final cohort and second fund. After […]
Drake State Community and Technical College is enhancing its 15-year partnership with NASA’s High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH) program through significant upgrades to its advanced manufacturing lab. The ongoing collaboration provides students with hands-on experience working on actual aerospace components and opportunities to engage directly with NASA engineers and mentors. As […]
The Rocket City maintains its position as a leading national destination for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals. The latest national report from CoworkingCafe ranks Huntsville as the fourth-best mid-sized U.S. metro area (with a population between 500,000 and 999,999), based on factors such as job availability, wage growth, affordability, and educational infrastructure. The […]
On Wednesday, June 25, the Catalyst Center for Business & Entrepreneurship hosted the city’s latest NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) event. The agenda for the event included a welcome from Catalyst’s COO, Sandy Edwards; CEO Lisa Mays; and Don Carver, President of Cepeda Systems. For the main portion of the event, staff members from […]
Albert Russel Erskine Sr., born in 1871 into a family with Dutch roots that settled in Huntsville around the turn of the 19th century, made his mark before committing suicide in 1933 under intense financial stress. Before he left his troubles behind, he was regarded as one of the nation’s most prominent industrial magnates of […]
HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology’s Dr. Emily Gordon introduced the classroom to the bookends of STEM simultaneously. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, known by its acronym STEM, is the basis for the “Spark’’ cohort at HudsonAlpha. The nonprofit in Cummings Research Park sponsors ongoing educational projects. The Spark program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), […]
Two classes were in session at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology’s Propst Center last week. In one, middle schoolers were working on summer camp projects downstairs. Nothing unusual there, but one floor up a second learning session unfolded – for teachers. The Invention Convention (IC), a state, national, and international program with competitions that begin […]
Those who have attended NASA rocket launches live at Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral tell of an inspiring experience. It wasn’t Florida, it wasn’t NASA and it wasn’t in-person, but the live showing of the Blue Origin NS-32 launch and landing in West Texas on a big screen at the U.S. Space & Rocket […]
Innovate Alabama has awarded more than $3.3 million in SBIR/STTR supplemental grants to 20 small businesses across Alabama, empowering them to scale cutting-edge technologies and create jobs. Of the 20 grants awarded, 11 will benefit startups based in North Alabama. The Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program provides non-dilutive funding to companies that have previously received […]
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