After a national search, Dr. Sharlene Newman will lead the Alabama Life Research Institute as executive director, charged with providing a coherent vision for collaborative life research that embraces the full range of disciplines represented on campus while strengthening UA’s research portfolio and profile
Alex Zimmerman eagerly watched McKade “come out of his shell” while rehearsing for The University of Alabama-led SENSE Theatre, a novel ASD intervention.
Evidence from ancient rocks in North Alabama show the Earth’s first forest spread rapidly, likely contributing to a mass extinction of shallow marine life some 370 million years ago.
The last common ancestor of all animal life was more like modern stem cells and not a clump of similar cells, as has long been thought.
Companies with female chief financial officers are less likely to misreport key data in financial statements, according to research from The University of Alabama.
When Christine Ferguson was a UA freshman, she knew she wanted to pursue a career in the medical field. Now she’s pursuing a doctorate at UA and is fascinated by the role nutrition plays in a person’s ailment.
The University of Alabama launched a five-year strategic plan to help facilitate growth and impact of the research enterprise.
For the fifth consecutive year, the student robotics team from The University of Alabama won NASA’s grand prize in its Robotics Mining Competition.
The Capstone Rural Health Center recently received the state of Alabama’s only grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration to increase access to substance abuse prevention and treatment services in rural populations.
A long-awaited, rigorous, randomized clinical trial comparing treatments for tinnitus, a perception of ringing in the ears, found no significant difference in patient outcomes between an innovative treatment and the current standard treatment.