THE EDGE: JAY WATERS BREAKS DOWN ADVERTISING, HOW ADS RELATE TO BUSINESSES
WVUA – Oct. 7
Jay Waters of the University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences visited the WVUA 23 studio to talk about the relationship between business development and advertising.
UA Part of Tornado Research Project in Alabama
Fox 6 – Oct. 7
A group of University of Alabama students will soon visit and spend time with some homeowners to better understand how they find out when severe weather is happening and how those families react to it.
ABC 33/40
NBC (Huntsville)
UA cyber security expert discusses ransomware
ABC 33/40 – Oct. 7
The DCH Health System is operating on what they call “down-time procedures.” Doctors and nurses are tracking medical records with pen and paper. Right now investigators are trying to determine when and how the hospital was exposed. Cyber security expert Dr. Matthew Hudnall fears the virus may have lived within the system for a long period of time…Hudnall estimates DCH paid between $400,000 and $700,000 in ransom. It would have taken months to rebuild the hospital’s data systems from scratch. But he says, each ransom paid puts more people at risk.
Fox 6 – Oct. 8
UA researcher says getting a tattoo may boost immune system
WDEL-AM (Philadelphia) – Oct. 7
Scientists have been curious about the effect tattoos have on the immune system for quite some time. Christopher Lynn is an anthropologist at The University of Alabama. He published research in 2016 suggesting that getting tattooed may boost your body ‘s immune response and make you less susceptible to common infections like colds. How’s that? Well, long story short, tattoos are wounds, and when your body is hurt your immune system swoops in
Foretelling Forest Death from Above
Earth & Space Science News – Oct. 7
The speed at which a forest recovers from disturbances can foretell that forest’s untimely demise. In a paper published today in Nature Climate Change, researchers tracked via satellite the vitality of California’s forests during the recent prolonged droughts and developed an early-warning signal for forest death. The new signal can detect a forest’s death spiral 6–19 months ahead of time. “Every year, generally, [a forest’s] biomass increases during the green season and reduces in the dormant season,” explained coauthor Mukesh Kumar, a hydrologist at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. “When a tree is stressed, its physiological functions are impaired. The rate of the recovery of the vegetation with respect to its normal cycle gets slower.”