The University of Alabama College of Engineering has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for a research project involving the development of a new Internet-based laboratory that provides instructional material on embedded systems.
Sara Johnson, managing director of the Global Macroeconomics Group at Global Insight (formerly DRI•WEFA), will present the U.S. Economic Outlook at the 2004 Economic Outlook Conference, presented by The University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research.
Tickets will go on sale Monday, Jan. 12, for a performance by gospel artist Yolanda Adams as part of the 15th annual Martin Luther King Jr. “Realizing the Dream” event at The University of Alabama Moody Music Concert Hall, Saturday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m.
The number of existing homes sold in Alabama fell 16.7 percent in November to 3,334 units, the third straight month of declines, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
The University of Alabama Elections Board has set Feb. 9-25 as a “preliminary campaign period” for 2004 Student Government Association candidates on campus.
Trailing 200,000-light-year-long streamers of seething gas, a galaxy that was once like our Milky Way is being shredded as it plunges at 4.5 million miles per hour through the heart of a distant cluster of galaxies. In this unusually violent collision with ambient cluster gas, the galaxy is stripped down to its skeletal spiral arms as it is eviscerated of fresh hydrogen for making new stars.
Looking at rocks in Oregon might not be the first place that comes to mind in searching for clues to whether life exists on Mars, but that’s where The University of Alabama’s Dr. Eric Roden expects to begin his quest later this spring.