Advances in military aircraft technology since World War II are astounding, but updates to the temporary, portable materials on which those craft sometimes land have not kept pace. Researchers at The University of Alabama and the Army Corps of Engineers seek to modernize those runways.
The University of Alabama and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Cultural Preservation Office are teaming up in an effort to find evidence that links prehistoric Muscogee people within different geographic regions.
Dr. Scott Parrott’s dissertation on disparagement humor, completed at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, was named the best mass communication dissertation in the United States for 2014.
he University of Alabama’s Computer-Based Honors Program has begun announcing its selections for the 2014 freshman class. The program, which has been named among the six most intriguing honors programs in the United States by the National Institute of Education, pairs academically elite students directly with leading research professors and cutting-edge computing technology to complete scholarly research projects in any field of study.
Dr. Lin Li, assistant professor of metallurgical and materials engineering at The University of Alabama, was one of 35 researchers selected to receive a nationally-competitive grant from Oak Ridge Associated Universities through the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards program.
The University of Alabama’s department of criminal Justice, in conjunction with The University of Alabama Police Department, recently received a $60,000 grant from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs to start a digital forensics crime lab at UA.
When someone is truly confused by something, they might say “It’s all Greek to me,” but The University of Alabama Greece Initiative is just the opposite; it’s all about furthering understanding and collaboration between UA and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Fifteen University of Alabama undergraduate researchers received recognition through the Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Program.
Electronic devices could be made cheaper, smaller and more efficient by reducing the complexity of their internal method of converting and regulating energy, according to a patent by a University of Alabama engineering professor.
University of Alabama researchers identified within animal models an enzyme that links genetic pathways that control aging with the death of dopamine neurons – a clinical hallmark of Parkinson’s disease.