The crashing of the enormous fluked tail on the surface of the ocean is a “calling card” of modern whales. Living whales have no back legs, and their front legs take the form of flippers that allow them to steer. Their special tails provide the powerful thrust necessary to move their huge bulk.
When students make mistakes in the classroom, teachers are instructed to use immediate feedback. This makes a strong impression and ensures that students won’t repeat the mistakes again and again.
A 2001 ban on federally funded researchers conducting embryonic stem cell research will be lifted in the coming year, but overall funding for this and other scientific research will remain historically low, predicts a University of Alabama biologist.
Interpretations of a now defunct form of Spanish writing, in combination with a joint U.S.-Cuban archaeological effort, are granting researchers insight into the Cuban people who Christopher Columbus encountered on his first voyage to the “New World.”
The current economic recession now has an official beginning date—December 2007—according to the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research. At 12 months, it has already been longer than the recessions of 2001 and 1990-91.
The October 2008 monthly housing statistics compiled by the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama are now available on the Web site http://acre.cba.ua.edu/housing_statistics.php.
The October 2008 New Construction Report, which includes building permits and housing starts, is now posted and available at The University of Alabama’s Center for Real Estate Web site. The address for the site is http://acre.cba.ua.edu/construction_statistics.php
Surprising—sometimes groundbreaking—findings can emerge when scientists follow ideas that stray from the primary path of their research. But these promising detours may prove challenging to pursue for scientists who need to marshal time, expertise, and resources in a constrained funding environment that favors more predictable research proposals.
A University of Alabama health studies specialist has found that within the AIDS crisis across the Deep South there is a second epidemic affecting the children of those who suffer with the deadly virus.
A husband and wife professorial research team, who developed a microscopic worm as an animal model for studying human neurological diseases, are winners of The University of Alabama’s Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor award.