Exercisers enjoying the Riverwalk will soon find themselves only steps away from a potential archaeology lesson, courtesy of a University of Alabama Honors College class.
They have a number of names – annual performance reviews, annual evaluations, performance evaluations, employee appraisals – whatever. But, they are second only to firing an employee as the task the majority of managers say they dislike the most.
Access to the Vatican Secret Archives is a privilege granted to only a limited number of researchers each year. Dr. Anthony Clark, assistant professor of Chinese history at The University of Alabama, had access to the Secret Archives and the Pope’s private library in Vatican City last summer to research 14th through 17th century letters between European and Chinese monarchs.
If you were living 1,000 years ago, among your primary concerns would have been obtaining salt. Yep, sodium chloride… good ol’ table salt.
The University of Alabama announced today a collaborative research and licensing agreement with QRxPharma, a clinical stage specialty pharmaceutical company (ASX: QRX), whose preclinical and clinical pipeline includes technologies in the fields of pain management and central nervous system disorders.
Researchers in an ongoing U.S.-Cuban archaeological expedition, co-led by The University of Alabama, are attempting to learn more about the native people Christopher Columbus encountered on his first voyage to the New World.
Born eyeless, these small, white, almost transparent animals spend their lives underground and have diets that, seemingly, are mud-centered. Their very existence appears tenuous.
One of the world’s most closely monitored experiments recently yielded its initial findings. The results, made public April 11, were made possible, in part, by three University of Alabama scientists who developed one of the primary sets of code used in key portions of the internationally-known effort’s computer analysis.
Funding from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research will allow University of Alabama and University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers to further study a promising lead in efforts to treat and prevent Parkinson’s disease.
A summer program at The University of Alabama, funded by the National Science Foundation, is helping prepare the next generation of chemists and scientific researchers.