Overnight Sensations
A trio of University of Alabama media experts was asked to help Olympians and other athletes manage their brands.
UA to Host Annual Three Minute Thesis Competition
Fifteen graduate students at The University of Alabama will compete for a chance to win scholarships and monetary awards in the final competition of this year’s Three Minute Thesis.
NASA, UA to Sign Space Act Agreement
Students at The University of Alabama will work with NASA to enhance understanding of propulsion systems for small satellites – CubeSats — that orbit the Earth, participating in a research project that will help further scientific discovery.
UA Professor Says Seeing Candy Causes Narrowed Focus
Halloween chocolate is everywhere: your office, home, prominent displays in grocery stores. Athough the adverse physical effects of indulging in chocolate are known before unwrapping the first of many pieces, the sight of Halloween candy also has psychological effects.
Milky Way
“This is our home, the galaxy we live in. We want to understand the galaxy, but it’s hard because we’re right in the middle of it.”
Bridging the Gap
Pass under one bridge on the interstate, and you might as well have seen them all. Right? Not so fast. Researchers at The University of Alabama are using a one-of-a-kind lab in the quest for longer, more durable bridges.
UA Study Finds Unexplainable Activity in Distant Stars
Space energy anomalies more than 50 million light years from our galaxy are creating conditions that should be destroying stars, but instead are regenerating them, according to an astronomer at The University of Alabama.
UA Launches Website for Studying Scottsboro Trials
The Alabama Digital Humanities Center is launching a new online database called “‘To See Justice Done’: Letters from the Scottsboro Trials,” at noon Monday, Oct. 24, in room 109a of Gorgas Library on The University of Alabama campus.
Exploring Possible Link between Pythons, Diabetes in Humans
Humans couldn’t be further away from snakes in the evolutionary chain, but snakes’ ability to grow and restructure particular organs could impact future treatments for diabetes and other diseases in humans, according to a biology professor at The University of Alabama.
UA, TDK Expand Research Agreement to Support Graduate Students
Two University of Alabama graduate students will receive annual financial support from the expansion of a research agreement between UA and the Japanese electronics company TDK Corp.