The annual statewide Alabama Launchpad business plan competition for technology and high-growth ideas has attracted 41 teams to compete in its second season. The University of Alabama has 12 participating teams, the most of any institution.
Think, for a second, about the size of a red blood cell. Now, imagine anything that’s about 7,000 times smaller. That would be a nanometer. It’s also representative of the world in which a host of University of Alabama researchers are involved.
This year’s freshman class of Coca-Cola First Generation Scholars at The University of Alabama are giving back to the West Alabama community in a service project to help five families who have critically ill babies in intensive care at DCH Regional Medical Center.
Dennis Lockhart, the president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, will be the keynote speaker at the 2008 Economic Outlook Conference scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 17 and presented by The University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research.
Dr. Metka Zupančič, associate professor of French and modern languages at The University of Alabama, pays tribute to one of the most influential women writers in France with her latest work.