Despite the recent and anticipated downward trend in Alabama home sales, which continued in December, Alabama ended 2007 with 57,083 units sold, a modest year-over-year decline of 5 percent when compared to the high double-digit declines experienced by its regional and national counterparts, according to the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama.
Dr. Douglas Gibler, assistant professor of political science in The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences, has received a prestigious Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant for research into understanding global conflict.
Discovery of two new components within a puzzling spiral galaxy confirm it must have a pair of arms winding in the opposite direction from most galaxies, according to results being presented today to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas. Presenting the results are Drs. Gene Byrd and Ron Buta, from The University of Alabama; Tarsh Freeman, Bevill Community College; and Dr. Sethanne Howard, retired from the U.S. Naval Observatory.
The results of an in-depth analysis of the Tuscaloosa community, including a unique look at downtown development and private communities, will be presented in the public forum “Height as Power,” Saturday, Jan. 26 from 1 to 4 p.m. on The University of Alabama campus.
Anyone connected with the commercial real estate business should be able to find something useful and interesting at the Alabama Commercial Real Estate Conference scheduled for Friday, Jan. 18 at the Birmingham/Jefferson County Civic Center/ Sheraton Hotel. The conference is presented by the Alabama Center for Real Estate, which is part of The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce.
November represents the second consecutive month the state housing inventory has decreased from the previous month, down 1,049 units or 2.40 percent, according to the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama.
Armchair astronomers using the galaxyzoo.org Web site have identified more than 500 overlapping galaxies in the local Universe when astronomers had previously only known of 20 such systems.
A drought-interrupting rain showers a trio of anglers, but they remain undeterred from their task – despite the weather and a complete lack of interest in catching fish.
Think, for a second, about the size of a red blood cell. Now, imagine anything that’s about 7,000 times smaller. That would be a nanometer. It’s also representative of the world in which a host of University of Alabama researchers are involved.
Total home sales in Alabama during October reflected the most significant monthly retreat this year by posting a decline of 12.25 percent when compared to October of last year, according to the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama.