UA Again Selected for National Vehicle Competition
Students at The University of Alabama will compete in the latest national vehicle competition that challenges students to develop a hybrid-electric, autonomous vehicle over the next four years.
UA Leads Effort to Understand Imperiled Mussel Biodiversity
A nearly $1.8 million project led by The University of Alabama hopes to identify the processes and mechanisms that underlie patterns of biodiversity in freshwater mussels to better arm managers of environmental resources.
UA Engineers Part of Research to Maximize U.S. Fuel Economy
Engineering researchers at The University of Alabama will test a blend of a new bio-based fuel and diesel fuel as part of a project to reduce soot and greenhouse gas emissions and yield cleaner engine operation in cold-weather conditions.
Men in Leadership Gain from Psychopathic Behavior, Women Punished
People with psychopathic tendencies are slightly more likely to be a company boss, but a new study finds men are allowed a pass for those inclinations while women are punished.
UA Engineers Develop Solution to Child Heat Deaths in Cars
A patent-pending device developed by University of Alabama researchers can alert a cell phone when a human or animal is inside a parked vehicle getting too hot. It monitors carbon dioxide levels from human breath inside the vehicle along with temperature and car movement.
Best Practices, Not Individual Preferences, Bring Job Satisfaction
Though employees may like their work to cater to their individual preferences, they are predictably more satisfied when the organizational culture matches a set of widely preferred characteristics that provide a fair, supportive and stable work environment.
UA Professor to Advance U.S. Drought Monitoring and Prediction
With a NOAA grant from the UA Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research will help improve scientists’ ability to predict when and where our country is most at risk of drought.
Printing a Military Advantage
University of Alabama researchers are examining how a new 3-D printing technology could be used by the military.
UA Building Innovative Radars to Help Flood, Drought Management
Researchers at The University of Alabama will lead a project to develop and deploy radars that obtain information about snow and soil moisture to help manage the nation’s water resources.
UA Research to Study Impact ‘War on Drugs’ Has on Smuggling Routes
Researchers at The University of Alabama are bringing together their expertise in geography, modeling and criminal activity to better understand how enforcement activity influences drug trafficking in Central America.