Birth control for moths – that’s one way of describing the focus of a start-up company, based at The University of Alabama, hoping to take a bite out of the approximate $100 billion hole that insects inflict each year via crop losses worldwide.
The National Science Foundation selected two University of Alabama professors for CAREER Awards totaling more than $890,000 for research projects related to improving future electronics and for investigating terahertz technology, respectively.
A University of Alabama archaeologist won one of two prizes awarded by the UA Press for best manuscripts submitted in 2009.
A University of Alabama nursing and Computer-Based Honors Program student is striving to give a state disability advocacy program a means to better explore incidents with youth occurring in treatment facilities.
University of Alabama graduate student Robin Cobb soon will remotely direct a research submarine as it hovers above the Atlantic Ocean’s floor some 2,000-3,000 feet below the surface.
Discovery of an antibiotic’s capacity to improve cell function in laboratory tests is providing movement disorder researchers with leads to more desirable molecules with potentially similar traits, according to University of Alabama scientists.
The January 2010 New Construction Report, which includes building permits and housing starts, is posted at The University of Alabama’s Center for Real Estate Web site.
A University of Alabama geoscientist, whose research focuses on developing and sharing environmentally feasible ways of increasing oil and natural gas supplies, is this year’s winner of the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award.
January 2010 home sales in Alabama were up 4.4 percent over January 2009, according to a report from The University of Alabama’s Alabama Center for Real Estate.
University of Alabama astronomers invite the community to view star clusters and nebulae in the next Public Night sky-viewing session Friday, March 5 from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m.