UA Breaks Records Reaching Almost $100 Million in Sponsored Funding

UA Breaks Records Reaching Almost $100 Million in Sponsored Funding

The University of Alabama had a record year in sponsored funding for fiscal year 2018, reaching almost $100 million in sponsored funding through external grants and contracts for research, instruction, service and fellowship.

UA Researcher Helps Find Cause of Channels on Antarctic Ice

UA Researcher Helps Find Cause of Channels on Antarctic Ice

A researcher at The University of Alabama is part of an international team that found the cause of long, potentially damaging channels on Antarctic Ice Shelves.

Online Exhibition Examines Tobacco Companies’ Targeting of Minorities

Online Exhibition Examines Tobacco Companies’ Targeting of Minorities

A University of Alabama professor’s latest online exhibition explores methods used by tobacco companies for years to target African Americans and other minority groups.

UA Leads Effort to Understand Imperiled Mussel Biodiversity

UA Leads Effort to Understand Imperiled Mussel Biodiversity

A nearly $1.8 million project led by The University of Alabama hopes to identify the processes and mechanisms that underlie patterns of biodiversity in freshwater mussels to better arm managers of environmental resources.

UA Team Receives $1M Grant to Develop Tool to Combat Opioid Abuse

UA Team Receives $1M Grant to Develop Tool to Combat Opioid Abuse

A research unit at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Business received an approximate $1 million grant from the Justice Department to develop a data-driven tool to help officials better understand the scope of the opioid epidemic in Alabama

UA Engineers Part of Research to Maximize U.S. Fuel Economy

UA Engineers Part of Research to Maximize U.S. Fuel Economy

Engineering researchers at The University of Alabama will test a blend of a new bio-based fuel and diesel fuel as part of a project to reduce soot and greenhouse gas emissions and yield cleaner engine operation in cold-weather conditions.

Men in Leadership Gain from Psychopathic Behavior, Women Punished

Men in Leadership Gain from Psychopathic Behavior, Women Punished

People with psychopathic tendencies are slightly more likely to be a company boss, but a new study finds men are allowed a pass for those inclinations while women are punished.

UA Engineers Develop Solution to Child Heat Deaths in Cars

UA Engineers Develop Solution to Child Heat Deaths in Cars

A patent-pending device developed by University of Alabama researchers can alert a cell phone when a human or animal is inside a parked vehicle getting too hot. It monitors carbon dioxide levels from human breath inside the vehicle along with temperature and car movement.

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.

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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.