Research

Article Authored by UA Researchers Named One of Year’s ‘Hottest’

A research article authored by a University of Alabama professor and her former graduate student is among 2010’s “Top 25 Hottest Articles” appearing in the scientific journal Intermetallics.

UA Student’s Award-Winning Research Seeks to Improve Hurricane Warnings

A team of undergraduate and graduate students from The University of Alabama set out to survey people at public events in Pensacola and Jacksonville, Fla., to see how they interpret the “Cones of Uncertainty” and to evaluate different designs that could be easier to interpret.

Deemed Essential to Health for Decades, Chromium Has No Nutritional Effect, UA Researchers Show

Despite a long-held acceptance that healthy diets must incorporate chromium III, new research indicates the element has no nutritional benefit, according to a paper authored by University of Alabama researchers.

Electronic Crash Data from UA Gives New Insights into Holiday Driving Dangers

A recent University of Alabama-study used data from the recently-developed electronic crash reporting system to obtain new insights into the dangers of holiday driving.

Frozen Smoke

Frozen Smoke

In a step toward developing lighter, more fuel efficient aerospace vehicles, Dr. Samit Roy collaborates with NASA on ways to strengthen an amazingly-light solid.

UA Graduate Student Wins $150K Fellowship from DOE

The Department of Energy has awarded a University of Alabama doctoral student, Steven Kelley, a three-year, $150,000 Nuclear Energy University Programs Fellowship.

UA Doctoral Students Win NSF Grants to Strengthen Dissertations

The National Science Foundation awarded separate grants to two University of Alabama doctoral students to strengthen their research dissertations.

UA Libraries to Unveil Williams Americana Collection Nov. 9

The A.S. Williams III Americana Collection will open officially for public viewing during a ceremony at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, in Room 301 of Gorgas Library, part of The University of Alabama Libraries.

Working for Wellness

History tells us that a community’s gift can often become its curse. Such is the case with Walker County. The remoteness and unspoiled natural beauty of the region makes an autumn drive along the yet-to-be-completed Corridor X a lesson in conservation. But remoteness means inaccessibility, a damper to industry and a curse to preventative and emergency medical care.

UA Psychologist Studies Reasons Behind Cyberattack on Estonia

Dr. Rosanna E. Guadagno, assistant professor of psychology at The University of Alabama, and two colleagues have written a paper analyzing a 2007 cyberattack on the nation of Estonia and suggesting reasons word of the movement spread so quickly and evoked such passion among Russian Internet denizens.