Sports: The Common Language.  UA Launches a Sports Communication Research Program

Sports: The Common Language. UA Launches a Sports Communication Research Program

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,

Borrowing for Health

Borrowing for Health

There is limited research on whether families use unsecured debt to finance health care expenses. Dr. Patryk Babiarz hopes to change that.

Sports: The Common Language

Sports: The Common Language

A leader in sports, athletically, The University of Alabama launches a sports communication research program.

Suspending Belief: Virtual Reality Lab to Provide Coping, Research Opportunities

Suspending Belief: Virtual Reality Lab to Provide Coping, Research Opportunities

The University of Alabama will soon become the third university in the country, researchers say, to have a social work virtual reality lab.

Private Eyes: Study Looks at Alleviating Customers’ Privacy Concerns

Private Eyes: Study Looks at Alleviating Customers’ Privacy Concerns

By better understanding how consumers are made comfortable providing personal information online, University of Alabama marketing experts are providing website-development strategies beneficial to both customers and companies.

A Catalyst for Jobs

A Catalyst for Jobs

As anyone who has picked up a newspaper — or stood in an unemployment line — knows, creating jobs in today’s economic climate is a slow-lane struggle. In partnership with UA faculty and staff, two departments seek to use campus breakthroughs to accelerate lane changes.

Layer Upon Historical Layer

Layer Upon Historical Layer

Dr. Robert Mellown’s research into the architecture of The University of Alabama has uncovered 180 years of campus designers’ and builders’ plans and dreams.

Getting Ready to Rumble, Research

Getting Ready to Rumble, Research

It’s time for another fight inside a large, second floor lab within The University of Alabama’s Science and Engineering Complex.

Going Viral: Surgeon, Professor Team in New Approach to Pain Treatment

Going Viral: Surgeon, Professor Team in New Approach to Pain Treatment

A Tuscaloosa-based surgeon’s theory related to chronic pain is likely headed for a clinical trial early next year, and it’s drawing support from a University of Alabama researcher who studies how viruses replicate.

Living on the (Botanical) Edge

Living on the (Botanical) Edge

John Clark doesn’t seem like a violent man. Yet, a group once wondered aloud whether he was one of those “foreigners who kills people and puts them in boiling water and extracts their fat to cook with.”