Despite their sometimes destructive consequences, can earthquakes actually be helpful events? The answer is a resounding “yes,” according to a team of two students and two professors from The University of Alabama and Auburn University.
The German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has selected a University of Alabama professor for its Humboldt Research Award.
The University of Alabama has been awarded a U.S. Department of Energy grant totaling more than $4.85 million for a multidisciplinary project that will characterize geologic formations for carbon dioxide storage in Alabama.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute will award $1.5 million to The University of Alabama to launch four distinct initiatives designed to teach and inspire the nation’s next-generation of scientists.
A former vice president and professor at a private Japanese university who previously was part of an IBM research team has been named director of The University of Alabama Center for Materials for Information Technology, known as MINT.
For the fourth consecutive year, a student from The University of Alabama has been named a Goldwater Scholar, receiving one of the country’s most elite academic scholarships.
Growers and consumers of apples stand to be among the beneficiaries of a University of Alabama start-up company’s $25,000 winnings in a state-wide business competition.
University of Alabama scientists invite the public to a discussion of the smallest known particles, and the gigantic instrument used to study them, as well as an opportunity to view the moon and Saturn through a UA telescope.
Remote access to a telescope in the Andes Mountains of Chile gives a group of astronomers and their students, including those at The University of Alabama, newly acquired peeks into the wonders of the Southern Hemisphere’s nighttime sky.
Two teams affiliated with The University of Alabama are among nine finalists in a state-wide competition designed to help launch start-up companies.