Paying nearly $3 per gallon of gas is not something Jamal Obid enjoys, but this University of Alabama student also knows the price spike plays a role in the legendary boon to bust swings of the oil industry. And that swing is headed in the best direction for those who, like Obid, are poised to graduate and enter their chosen profession…oil exploration.
Existing home sales in Alabama were up a whopping 26.34 percent in March, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama. This is the second straight increase in home sales (sales rose 12.5 percent in February) after five previous months of declining home sales.
There’s an almost audible buzz emitting from a basement level laboratory in The University of Alabama’s Biology Building. The five graduate and 10 undergraduate students who work there, alongside Drs. Guy and Kim Caldwell, UA biology professors, are pumped. So too are their aforementioned faculty mentors.
Revenues generated by the Alabama’s 28,666 black-owned businesses generated an estimated $1.65 billion in revenues, according to a new report, Survey of Business Owners: Black-Owned Firms: 2002, released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Some 50 students from The University of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Alabama in Huntsville will participate in the fifth annual University of Alabama System Undergraduate Honors Research Day Friday, April 14.
After a slow start in January the housing market in Alabama improved in February, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
A new version of a nasal spray flu vaccine shows greater effectiveness in preventing influenza in test patients than did an injectable flu vaccine, according to data from the new drug’s latest clinical trial.
A recently published paper, co-authored by an adjunct professor in The University of Alabama department of physics and astronomy, is attracting international attention with its theory related to “dark matter,” invisible material believed to comprise a large portion of the universe and whose content scientists have long sought.
A new version of a nasal spray flu vaccine shows greater effectiveness in preventing influenza in test patients than did an injectable flu vaccine, according to data from the new drug’s latest clinical trial.
Alabama’s housing market started the New Year on the down side, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.