Cell phones that charge wirelessly, orthopedic implants that safely degrade inside the body, and a social network designed to connect those in the construction industry: these are the central concepts behind three University of Alabama start-up companies competing July 12 in a statewide business competition.
University of Alabama archaeologists are getting a glimpse of what life in Tuscaloosa might have been like more than 180 years ago. From bottles and porcelain pieces to soil and flotation samples taken from privies, or outhouses, the analysts are discovering many “stories” of Tuscaloosa’s past.
Global earthquakes help a University of Alabama geologist image a mostly ice-buried mountain range in Antarctica.
The autoXLR8R “TechTour,” a 13-week program to visit several of the region’s top automotive research institutions to refine autoXLR8R’s technologies and work with world-renowned engineers and entrepreneurs, will bring its program to Tuscaloosa and The University of Alabama June 24 and 25.
Some of the lightest of creatures are helping scientists better understand the genetics behind weight gain. Dr. Laura Reed, a University of Alabama geneticist, is studying the maggots of fruit flies to better understand how specific genes cause some of the fruit flies to get fat from consuming high calorie diets, while other flies are
Sports communication is a growing area of academic research and public interest, and faculty members in The University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences have capitalized on that by creating The University of Alabama Program in Sports Communication, which launched fall 2012. Dr. Andrew Billings, a UA Professor and internationally-known sports communication researcher,
The National Science Foundation has selected a University of Alabama professor for a CAREER Award, NSF’s most prestigious recognition of top-performing young scientists.
Dr. Steven B. Bunker, associate professor of history at The University of Alabama, has received awards from two distinguished Latin American studies associations for his book, “Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Diaz,” published by the University of New Mexico Press.
Seth Panitch, associate professor of theatre at The University of Alabama, will take his play “Alcestis Ascending” on the road this summer to New York City, Havana and Alabama as part of his participation in creative research with the actors and dancers from UA and the Cuban El Instituto Superior de Arte .
University of Alabama student Zoe Nichols, a sophomore from Tuscaloosa majoring in marine science and biology with a minor in geology, has earned a prestigious four-week internship at Wrigley Marine Science Center on Santa Catalina Island in California.