On Road to Possible Fourth Title, Robotics Team Tackles New Challenge

On Road to Possible Fourth Title, Robotics Team Tackles New Challenge

NASA’s annual robotics challenge presents a new problem for college students to solve, and students at The University of Alabama hope their solution can win the contest for a fourth straight year.

‘Go, Bailey, Go!’

‘Go, Bailey, Go!’

Engineering students designed and built a child with physical challenges a car he can drive himself.

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UA Researcher Helps to Understand Possible Antarctic Glacier Collapse

Dr. Rebecca Totten Minzoni, an assistant professor of geological sciences, has a role to play as a marine geologist and paleontologist in the roughly $25 million research collaboration. She will use her expertise in finding clues to the past behavior of Thwaites Glacier through what is left behind in the offshore sediment to inform models for how the glacier could behave in the future.

UA Professor Finds John Stuart Mill in the Margins

UA Professor Finds John Stuart Mill in the Margins

More than a century after John Stuart Mill’s personal library was donated to an Oxford college, a University of Alabama English professor and a team of international collaborators are allowing a broader audience access to the history literally hand-written by Mill into the margins of his books.

Search for Research Vice President Continues

Search for Research Vice President Continues

The search committee for a new vice president of research and economic development is continuing to identify top-quality candidates for the post.

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New UA Center to Focus on Water Science and Engineering

A new research center at The University of Alabama aims to improve accuracy of data and reduce uncertainty for water management and emergency preparedness.

Research Models How Deadly Virus Moves Among Pacific Salmon, Trout

Research Models How Deadly Virus Moves Among Pacific Salmon, Trout

For the first time researchers studying a deadly virus modeled how it spreads to young trout and salmon in the waters of the Columbia River Basin, showing that migrating adult fish are the main source of exposure.

Light Therapy

Light Therapy

Grief for a young colleague and natural intellectual curiosity launched Dr. Elizabeth T. Papish on a path toward using a metal, light and acidity to battle cancer cells. Trials and treatments may still be far in the future, but Papish’s research has, at least, pointed in a potentially beneficial direction.

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Gender Parity, Not Gap, in CEO Pay

Male and female CEOs are paid equally in corporate America, according to research by a team at The University of Alabama.

UA Wins 2018 SEC Student Cyber Challenge Competition

UA Wins 2018 SEC Student Cyber Challenge Competition

A team of students from The University of Alabama won first place in the SEC Student Cyber Challenge, the Southeastern Conference announced recently.