UA Researcher Wins National Grant to Produce Children’s Health App
Dr. Kim Bissell received a grant from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication to create a smart app for children’s nutrition tracking.
Research
UA Professor Finds Link Between Drinking Patterns, Alcohol ‘Cues’
The motivations for one to drink alcohol and patterns of future drinking can be related to the attentional narrowing – or zeroing-in – one has to a photograph of an alcoholic beverage, according to a psychology professor at The University of Alabama.
Three Teams with UA Ties Set for Business Start-up Competition
Three companies affiliated with The University of Alabama are set to compete in a state-wide Alabama Launchpad Start-Up Competition.
Reprogrammed Protein Shows Neurologic Disease Treatment Promise, UA Research Shows
A protein naturally found only in single-cell organisms can, when reprogrammed in a laboratory, correct within animal models a hallmark trait associated with multiple neurodegenerative diseases, according to a paper co-authored by University of Alabama researchers and publishing today in the journal Cell.
‘The Myth of Martyrdom’
One frequently uses explosive devices, the other bullets. But, suicide terrorists and mass shooters share similarities, according to a University of Alabama criminal justice expert.
Obama Honors Outstanding Young Scientists, including UA Researcher
President Barack Obama named a University of Alabama geologist among the researchers receiving the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers.
UA Start-Up Company Wins NSF Small Business Innovation Grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded a University of Alabama start-up company a $150,000 grant to further develop a new catalyst for the petrochemical industry.
Shaping Safer Scans
A patented technique relying on shape manipulation of nanoparticles offers potential for safer MRIs.
UA Chemist Leads Supercomputer Effort to Aid Nuclear Understanding
Two of the nation’s fastest supercomputers will aid a research team, led by a University of Alabama computational chemist, in guiding both the development of new nuclear fuels and clean-up efforts from past nuclear fuel and weapon production.
IceCube Collaboration, Involving UA Scientists, Awarded Breakthrough of the Year
An Antarctic observatory, a massive, collaborative effort including University of Alabama researchers, was selected as the Breakthrough of the Year for making the first observation of cosmic neutrinos but also for overcoming the many challenges of creating and operating a colossal detector deep under the ice at the South Pole.