Think of how easy it has become to take out your mobile smartphone and capture important photos in just seconds. Now, through the work of a University of Alabama computer scientist and his colleagues, you can utilize that technology to help scientists and researchers build a database of critical images during a natural disaster or crisis.
The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations at The University of Alabama will award $8,500 to support two research projects that will enhance understanding of factors that contribute to effective and ethical leadership in public relations.
Like many amphibians, salamanders are declining at an alarming rate around the planet, but scientists have discovered a new kind of salamander scurrying about in central sections of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Lisa Elizondo, a University of Alabama junior and McNair Scholar who spent her summer collecting oral histories of Chicano-rights activists, will present “Off the Border: Mexican-Americans in Washington State” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, in 125 ten Hoor on the UA campus.
Dr. Sam Addy has been named assistant dean for outreach at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.
A University of Alabama molecular biologist will soon bring dozens of tiny, transparent animals who live in Gulf Coast waters back to his campus laboratory as part of an effort to better understand the oil spill’s long-term impact on the coastal environment and creatures living there.
A cast of real-life astronomers and a Dutch schoolteacher who collaborated in the discovery and analysis of an unusual object in space are featured in a comic book to be unveiled Sept. 3 in Atlanta.
Perhaps the coldest hide-and-seek game ever played is under way as you read this.
Recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that people of Asian origin in Alabama have a strong entrepreneurial spirit in the state, according to Annette Watters, manager of the State Data Center at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce.
The latest look at the housing situation in Alabama is now available on the Web from the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama.