Research involving The University of Alabama created an easier way to detect harmful levels of heavy metals in water, which could help improve human health by boosting detection efforts by regulatory agencies, water utilities and commercial fishing. […]
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UA, Harvard Researchers Identify Potential Parkinson’s Therapeutic
From the UA News Center | Researchers at The University of Alabama were part of a national investigation that identified a new candidate therapeutic target for Parkinson’s Disease, according to recently published results. The discovery is part of a movement within the biological and medical research communities to find promising avenues to treatment after decades of […]
History Professor Publishes Biography of Alabama’s Bankhead Family
From the April 2022 Desktop News | Dr. Kari Frederickson, a professor of history at UA, recently published a biography about the Bankhead family, an Alabama dynasty whose influence spans generations of the state’s history. The book, Deep South Dynasty: The Bankheads of Alabama, explores over eighty years of history, and showcases the rise of […]
UA Selected for U.S. Cyber Command Network
The University of Alabama is partnering with the United States Cyber Command to improve the experience of students readying for a career in cyber security. […]
Scientists Show Viable Path to Finding Long-Sought Particle
Using the Large Hadron Collider in the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, an international group of scientists are searching for magnetic monopoles, which would transform the field of physics. […]
Going with the Flow
From the 2021 Collegian | In the heart of Tuscaloosa County, a small stream runs through the woods. Here, frogs hop from stone to stone, insects and butterflies flutter about, and water transports fish and other river dwellers downstream. Locals spend their days on the creek’s banks, swimming, hiking, and adventuring in their own backyard. […]
Grants Boost UA Climate Science Research Efforts
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded funding for climate science and community resilience projects involving researchers from The University of Alabama and universities around the Southeast. […]
Center for Youth Development and Intervention Sets the Standard for Community-Engaged Research
From the September 2021 Desktop News | Over the past several years, the Center for Youth Development and Intervention (CYDI) has become an example on UA’s campus of successful community engagement. Through community-based research, scholars at the center hope to improve life for those around them and throughout the world. “One in five children and […]
UA Professor Uses NSF Grant to Explore Evolution and Facilitate Diversity
From the September 2021 Desktop News | Dr. Alberto PĂ©rez-Huerta, a professor of geological sciences at The University of Alabama, hopes to change the way people think of geology’s role in the emergence of life on Earth. In July 2020, PĂ©rez-Huerta received an EAGER grant from the National Science Foundation to help him not only […]
Partnership to Develop Kit to Discover Drugs From Natural Sources
Dr. Lukasz Ciesla, assistant professor of biological sciences, is working with Regis Technologies Inc., a biotechnology company based in Morton Grove, Illinois, that offers services to expedite drug development, on a grant from NIH Small Business Technology Transfer program. […]