UA Engineering Assisting NASA with Test of Spin-Off Technology
Engineers with NASA are using a lab at The University of Alabama to help develop a spin-off technology aimed at girding structures against earthquakes.
View ArticleUA Team Wins SEC MBA Case Competition
The University of Alabama took first place in the 2016 SEC MBA Case Competition held at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville bringing home the travelling trophy Saturday.
View Article2 UA Students Named Truman Scholars for 2016
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation has named two University of Alabama students -- Ciara Malaugh, of Huntsville, and Dana Sweeney, of Kingsland, Georgia, -- as Truman Scholars for 2016.
View ArticlePresident Bell Announces Four Pillars of UA’s New Strategic Plan
President Stuart R. Bell announced the four pillars of The University of Alabama’s new strategic plan at a meeting with faculty and staff this afternoon.
View ArticleSpin-off Company to Market, Sell UA-Developed Product
The University of Alabama licensed the technology behind a collapsible sideline tent designed to give better medical care to athletes to a spin-off company that will develop, market, manufacture and...
View ArticleUA Theatre Professor’s Film to Premiere at American Black Film Festival
University of Alabama theater professor Seth Panitch has recently completed a full, feature-length film that has been selected as one of 25 films to be showcased in the 20th American Black Film Festival.
View ArticleUA Professor’s Work Wins ‘Best Film’ at Black Film Festival
University of Alabama theatre professor Seth Panitch’s first full, feature-length film, “Service to Man,” was awarded the grand jury prize for best film at the 20th American Black Film Festival Sunday....
View ArticleUA American Studies Professor Wins Award For Best Book On Popular Music
Dr. Eric Weisbard, an associate professor of American studies at The University of Alabama, has been awarded the 2015 Woody Guthrie Award for outstanding book on popular music for his book “Top 40...
View ArticleUA Professor Helped Create Willie Mays Statue, Unveiling Scheduled for July 20
The recently completed life-sized bronze statue of National Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays will be officially unveiled at the home of the Birmingham Barons minor league baseball team at Regions...
View ArticleFruit-Fly Diet Impacts Descendants, UA Researcher Finds
For a fruit fly, what its grandparents ate may affect how much it weighs. But the passing down of a body type based on diet is not a simple cause and effect, a University of Alabama researcher has found.
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