UA Students Turn Car Seat Idea into an Innovation
Fox 6 (Birmingham) –May 21
Students at the University of Alabama turn an idea about car seats into an innovation that may make your child safer … “it’s great because the University of Alabama is always known for several other things and patent design is even better for the school.” Professors who assisted in the project say they’ve been contacted by several car seat makers about design.
GOP election setbacks could spread to state
Mobile Register – May 22
Not long ago, Alabama Republicans could have felt confident of keeping the congressional seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Rep. Terry Everett…But Democratic upsets in special congressional elections in Louisiana and Mississippi this month suggest that the bar has gotten higher…”It appears that if things continue, a conservative Democrat running the right kind of campaign can win in a conservative Southern district,” said David Lanoue, chairman of the political science department at the University of Alabama…
Biofuels backers playing defense as some blame rising food prices on ethanol production
Birmingham News – May 22
…Peter Clark, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Alabama who follows the petroleum industry, questions the use of corn for ethanol production. “Anytime you divert a product from one use to another it will cause shortages,” he said. “They are using fields that were primarily growing wheat in western Oklahoma for growing corn for use in ethanol. It has got to be causing some of this rise because if corn is diverted from use as animal feed, it will drive up food prices.”…