Research

Best Practices, Not Individual Preferences, Bring Job Satisfaction

Best Practices, Not Individual Preferences, Bring Job Satisfaction

Though employees may like their work to cater to their individual preferences, they are predictably more satisfied when the organizational culture matches a set of widely preferred characteristics that provide a fair, supportive and stable work environment.

Moradkhani

UA Professor to Advance U.S. Drought Monitoring and Prediction

With a NOAA grant from the UA Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research will help improve scientists’ ability to predict when and where our country is most at risk of drought.

Printing a Military Advantage

Printing a Military Advantage

University of Alabama researchers are examining how a new 3-D printing technology could be used by the military.

UA Building Innovative Radars to Help Flood, Drought Management

UA Building Innovative Radars to Help Flood, Drought Management

Researchers at The University of Alabama will lead a project to develop and deploy radars that obtain information about snow and soil moisture to help manage the nation’s water resources.

UA Research to Study Impact ‘War on Drugs’ Has on Smuggling Routes

UA Research to Study Impact ‘War on Drugs’ Has on Smuggling Routes

Researchers at The University of Alabama are bringing together their expertise in geography, modeling and criminal activity to better understand how enforcement activity influences drug trafficking in Central America.

Are Pre-K Children in Tuscaloosa School-Ready?

Are Pre-K Children in Tuscaloosa School-Ready?

A University of Alabama College of Human Environmental Sciences study of 393 pre-kindergarten children in the Tuscaloosa City School System indicate that more than 80 percent are ready for kindergarten.

UA Researchers Examining Parkinson’s Resilience

UA Researchers Examining Parkinson’s Resilience

Research underway at The University of Alabama, supported by the National Institutes of Health, hopes to identify factors and methods through which individuals are either resilient or susceptible to the neurodegeneration in the brain as part of Parkinson’s disease.

UA will Lease Space at GulfQuest in Mobile

 A new University of Alabama office in Mobile will serve as a nexus for research and programmatic initiatives that will benefit the region, primarily in the area of transportation.

UA Professors Help in Discovery of Potential Cosmic Ray Source

UA Professors Help in Discovery of Potential Cosmic Ray Source

Three professors at The University of Alabama are part of an international team of scientists who found evidence of the source of tiny cosmic particles, known as neutrinos, a discovery that opens the door to using these particles to observe the universe.

Microscopic Battle

Microscopic Battle

Though 1,000 times smaller than a human hair’s width, Andhra, and other viruses like her, could prove vital as researchers seek new approaches in fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria.