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.
Dr. Yingyan Lou, assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, was awarded the Pikarsky Award for outstanding doctoral dissertation in science and technology by the Council of University Transportation Centers.
At The University of Alabama, numerous researchers embark on the challenge to bioengineer systems, specifically in breast cancer detection, cancer treatment options and robotic prosthetics.
Weeds win over basketball in this lot in a low-income neighborhood surveyed by UA’s John Bolland and college interns.
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.
The first Alabama Real Estate Confidence Index, compiled by the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama, reports a slight negative bias in real estate for the first quarter of 2010.
The fourth quarter 2009 Alabama Housing Affordability Index rose to 211.2, an increase of more than 25 points over the third quarter of 2009, according to the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama.
Dr. Philip C. Kendall, director of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Temple University, will be the guest speaker for the annual Michael Dinoff Memorial Lecture on The University of Alabama campus.
Emission & Power Solutions, Plc (Frankfurt Exchange Ticker Symbol: EPI), a clean tech company that licenses, acquires, develops, deploys, and transfers technologies dedicated to improving fuel economy while also reducing environmentally harmful exhaust emissions, announced today that it has licensed the patent pending Vapor Emissions System developed by Dr. Marcus Ashford at The University of Alabama.