For the 31st consecutive year, The University of Alabama’s Office of Media Relations offers predictions from faculty experts for the coming year. While these “educated guesses” don’t always come true, our track record over the years has been good.
President Obama is likely to win re-election in 2012, but his Republican opponent will not be one of the current candidates battling one another in the early primaries, a University of Alabama political scientist predicts.
The Alabama business community needs to practice its Spanish, and that suggestion has nothing to do with the state’s controversial immigration law.
Warnings about apocalyptic cataclysms in 2012 potentially will serve as a catalyst for Internet hysteria, a University of Alabama psychology professor predicts.
Dr. Craig E. Armstrong, assistant professor of management at The University of Alabama, says he expects someone to create, within the next year, an “app” that performs “Craigslist” functions for the exchange of goods and services.
Dr. Kristen Heflin says social media will give the public more access to political candidates than ever before – and that access will include the good, the bad and the ugly.
The Occupy Movement will be heard from again and re-emerge on the political and economic landscape more determined and forceful than ever, a University of Alabama professor predicts.
Whereas many eyes were on presidential candidates in the final days of 2011, one University of Alabama professor believes the vice presidential race is the one to watch.
2011 was a turbulent one for the people of Alabama, and a University of Alabama nursing professor thinks many will feel the effects mentally during 2012.
2011 often felt like the ‘Year of the Disaster,’ and we can expect municipalities around the nation to look next year for ways to mitigate losses caused by natural disasters.