5 Early Career Researchers Making Waves with National Awards
National grants allow each researcher to train and motivate a new generation of scientists and engineers not only at UA through instruction and lab work, but also through outreach efforts.
STEM
Low-cost Solution Viable for Self-Driving Cars to Spot Hacked GPS
Transportation researchers at The University of Alabama developed a promising, inexpensive system to overcome one challenge of self-driving vehicle technology: GPS hacking that can send a self-driving vehicle to the wrong destination.
UA Leading Investigation Into Alternative Pain Treatment
The research is exploring minuscule doses of a potent toxin to treat pain without opioids or nerve-block injections.
Federal Award To Help UA Electrify Crimson Ride
With nearly $8 million in federal transit funds, The University of Alabama will replace a quarter of its transit system buses with electric buses, reducing emissions and further positioning UA and the region as a hub for the electric vehicle ecosystem.
Engineering Professor, Automotive Pioneer Adds New R&D Role
Dr. Bharat Balasubramanian will take on the additional responsibility of creating and implementing a vision for connected, automated and electric mobility research and elevating the profile of the Alabama Transportation Institute.
AWI Names Second Class of Faculty Fellowship Recipients
The program recognizes UA faculty for outstanding research, extension and education programs that significantly advance UA’s interdisciplinary water-related communities of science.
UA To Train Needed Workforce for Water Operations and Forecasting
The University of Alabama has been awarded $3 million from the National Science Foundation to establish a unique hydrologic science research and training program for graduate students.
UA Researchers Contribute to Startup of Dark Matter Detector
Dark matter particles, which are fundamental to understanding the universe, have never been detected — but perhaps not for much longer.
UA Researchers Develop Way to Test Water for Metal Pollutants
Research involving The University of Alabama created an easier way to detect harmful levels of heavy metals in water, which could help improve human health by boosting detection efforts by regulatory agencies, water utilities and commercial fishing.
Company Licenses UA Tech to Improve Concrete, Reduce Emissions
An innovation developed in an engineering lab at The University of Alabama will help reduce emissions of harmful greenhouse gases created by concrete production.