Understanding the role of crops on the carbon and water cycles is a critical component of global climate change research as water and carbon dioxide are major components in greenhouse gas production. For years, a variety of research aimed at understanding aspects of global climate change has been performed within the corn and soybean fields of Champaign County Illinois.
While most research on young athletes and their use of sports supplements focuses on the product, University of Alabama professor Mike Perko goes in a completely different direction—what got the athletes interested in them in the first place?
The University Transportation Center for Alabama, headquartered at The University of Alabama, was recently chosen by the U.S. Department of Transportation as one of 20 transportation research centers to receive grant funding.
Existing home prices in Alabama reached a record in May of $160,720, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
Two University of Alabama College of Engineering researchers have been instrumental in planning “Safe Home Alabama,” a traffic safety summit focused on Alabama’s strategic highway safety plan. The summit will be June 29 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Montgomery.
Scientists reveal a function of a human protein in today’s issue of Science Express, and this new understanding could later prove key in preventing Parkinson’s disease, according to a University of Alabama professor who co-authored the study.
Natural Bridge likely has the highest percentage of citizen participation in local government than any town in the state, with 25 percent of the town’s population being city officials. That said, realize that Natural Bridge is also the smallest incorporated town in the state, with an estimated 28 residents.
Imagine a world where maps no longer lay flat and lifeless on a desk, but instead appear in three-dimensional clarity while “floating” in the center of the room.
If anyone or anything ever needed a champion to take up its cause, it was the lowly chytrid. Not so long ago, the microscopic fungus was relatively unknown, unloved and, although it didn’t seem to impact the tiny organism’s psyche, generally regarded as unimportant. And this dismissive approach was coming from many mycologists, those botanists who specifically study fungi.
Dr. Bronwen Lichtenstein, University of Alabama assistant professor of criminal justice, is researching the health risks that women over the age of 35 take when they start dating after the breakup of a long-term relationship.