The Alabama Housing Affordability Index for the second quarter was 147.4, down from 165.0 in the first quarter of 2006, a 10.67 percent decline, according to figures released by the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce.
University of Alabama astronomers and their students will soon regularly point and focus two mountaintop-based telescopes, including one in the southern hemisphere, without leaving campus.
How do you handle the Alabama summer heat? Some residents of the Lake Tuscaloosa area have discovered an atypical way to stay cool during the summer, while saving money in the process.
Understanding the role of crops on the carbon and water cycles is a critical component of global climate change research as water and carbon dioxide are major components in greenhouse gas production. For years, a variety of research aimed at understanding aspects of global climate change has been performed within the corn and soybean fields of Champaign County Illinois.
While most research on young athletes and their use of sports supplements focuses on the product, University of Alabama professor Mike Perko goes in a completely different direction—what got the athletes interested in them in the first place?
The University Transportation Center for Alabama, headquartered at The University of Alabama, was recently chosen by the U.S. Department of Transportation as one of 20 transportation research centers to receive grant funding.
Existing home prices in Alabama reached a record in May of $160,720, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
Two University of Alabama College of Engineering researchers have been instrumental in planning “Safe Home Alabama,” a traffic safety summit focused on Alabama’s strategic highway safety plan. The summit will be June 29 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Montgomery.
Scientists reveal a function of a human protein in today’s issue of Science Express, and this new understanding could later prove key in preventing Parkinson’s disease, according to a University of Alabama professor who co-authored the study.
Natural Bridge likely has the highest percentage of citizen participation in local government than any town in the state, with 25 percent of the town’s population being city officials. That said, realize that Natural Bridge is also the smallest incorporated town in the state, with an estimated 28 residents.