UA Research Activity Makes Significant Gains
The University of Alabama’s contract and grant activity totaled $76 million in fiscal year 2009, an 18 percent increase from the previous year.
Research
UA Professor Begins $5.6 Million Study of Treatment for Tinnitus Among Military Personnel
A University of Alabama researcher is embarking on a $5.6 million phase-three, randomized, controlled clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of an innovative treatment that uses a noise-generating device, along with counseling, to alleviate the debilitating effects of tinnitus – that ringing in the ears that drives some people to distraction.
Saving Lives? There’s an App for That!
University of Alabama-developed software enhances highway safety for law enforcement officers and other motorists while increasing administrative efficiency.
‘Funny Guy’ Investigates Ties Between Classroom Humor, Student Performance
A University of Alabama educator has spent more than a decade researching the use of humor in the classroom.
State’s October Home Sales Up 2.63 Percent from September, According to UA Center
Alabama home sales for October ’09 are up 2.63 percent from September and up 12.40 percent from October ’08, according to a report from a University of Alabama center.
Is the Economic Crisis Over? Fed’s Role to be Addressed in UA Economic Outlook Conference
The vice president and associate director of research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta will address “The Fed and the Post-Crisis Economy” at the Economic Outlook Conference 2010, presented by a University of Alabama center, Thursday, Jan. 14 at the Renaissance Montgomery hotel.
UA Researchers Identify Potential Drug Development Target for Epilepsy Seizures
A team of scientists from The University of Alabama used worms to reel in information that they hope will lead to a greater understanding of cellular mechanisms that may be exploited to treat epilepsy.
UA Researchers Receive Grant to Study Stigma of AIDS in Rural America
Dr. Susan Gaskins and Dr. Pam Foster of The University of Alabama will investigate the impact of disclosing an AIDS diagnosis on rural African-American men under a $100,000 grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research.
Top Journal Accepts Article Co-authored by UA Undergraduate
In an atypical collaboration, an assistant professor in The University of Alabama’s English department and a UA undergraduate have co-authored an article publishing in May in a top academic journal.
UA Engineering Continues Drag Research Through Shark Skin Simulations
Thanks to grants from the National Science Foundation, the NASA Alabama Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and the Lindbergh Foundation, Dr. Amy Lang continues researching what designers of aircraft and underwater vehicles could learn by imitating nature’s design of shark skins.