New SEC Program to Match Entrepreneurs, University Startups

New SEC Program to Match Entrepreneurs, University Startups

The University of Alabama, along with the rest of the Southeastern Conference, is launching the Southeast Executives-on-Roster to broaden access to experienced entrepreneurial talent and to match that talent to university-affiliated startups in need of executive management.

UA Researchers Examining Parkinson’s Resilience

UA Researchers Examining Parkinson’s Resilience

Research underway at The University of Alabama, supported by the National Institutes of Health, hopes to identify factors and methods through which individuals are either resilient or susceptible to the neurodegeneration in the brain as part of Parkinson’s disease.

The Earlier the Better

The Earlier the Better

Findings from UA research suggest earlier interventions and ones designed to address developing social skills are more likely to be successful in helping address youth aggression and peer victimization in children.

UA Professors Help in Discovery of Potential Cosmic Ray Source

UA Professors Help in Discovery of Potential Cosmic Ray Source

Three professors at The University of Alabama are part of an international team of scientists who found evidence of the source of tiny cosmic particles, known as neutrinos, a discovery that opens the door to using these particles to observe the universe.

Microscopic Battle

Microscopic Battle

Though 1,000 times smaller than a human hair’s width, Andhra, and other viruses like her, could prove vital as researchers seek new approaches in fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Winning the Water Quality Game

Winning the Water Quality Game

The Alabama Water Institute can use the Watershed Game to teach people around campus and Tuscaloosa how to win water quality battles in real life.

A man looks out over the water from a small boat.

Nutrient Packed

Researchers from The University of Alabama are studying excess nutrients in and around Mobile Bay, attempting to increase our understanding of the problem, a necessary step to raise awareness and improve solutions.

UA Student Team Selected for Magnetic Antenna Contest

UA Student Team Selected for Magnetic Antenna Contest

For the second consecutive year, a team of engineering students at The University of Alabama is one of six selected as finalists in an international contest to design an antenna system to sound wireless channels and locate radio signals.

With Project, Physics Professor ‘Pushing the Limit of Our Understanding’

With Project, Physics Professor ‘Pushing the Limit of Our Understanding’

Work led by a University of Alabama physics professor will help grasp behavior of emerging materials while unstable that could lead to more efficient and controllable uses for energy and information processing applications.

Disease Afflicting Frogs Becoming Deadlier

Disease Afflicting Frogs Becoming Deadlier

A disease-inducing fungus in amphibians worldwide could become deadlier as different genetic variations emerge, according to research led by The University of Alabama.