Fuel prices will remain unstable in 2012 as pressure from all sides influence the cost of crude oil, according to a University of Alabama engineering professor who follows the petroleum markets.
The intensity and confusion surrounding the health-care debate will increase in 2012, a University of Alabama insurance expert predicts.
Occupy Wall Street protesters can expect mixed results in litigation, says a University of Alabama First Amendment expert.
So, if interest rates are at record low levels, it’s pretty safe to predict that they are going to increase, right? “Right,” says Dr. Benton Gup, a University of Alabama finance professor, “but let’s not make the same mistakes that led to the failure and consolidation of thousands of financial institutions in the 1980s.”
James T. Lawrence, a 33-year real estate executive and educator, has been named education director of the Alabama Center for Real Estate, or ACRE, part of The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce.
The University of Alabama won the 2011 Beat Auburn Beat Hunger Food Drive by collecting 237,079 pounds of food to top Auburn University’s collection of 134,102 pounds of food.
Advertising and public relations students in a service-learning class at The University of Alabama have raised some $5,585 for Secret Meals For Hungry Children, an Alabama Credit Union program that benefits needy area children.
Dr. Allen R. Maxwell, professor emeritus of anthropology at The University of Alabama, died Nov. 16, 2011 at his home. He was 71.
A biology professor who has won nearly $5 million in grants to strengthen undergraduate education in the sciences is the winner of The University of Alabama’s Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor award.
The University of Alabama Community Service Center is making a final push to reach its goal of collecting 250,000 pounds of food by Friday, Nov. 18, the end of the annual Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive.