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Scientists are descending into caves on a small island in the middle of the South Pacific to try and gain a better understanding of weather patterns occurring as far back as 10,000 years ago.

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Smartphone applications are continuously and rapidly being developed. While most apps are for entertainment purposes, there is a trend of app development for functional uses. Developers are looking to apps as a way to solve everyday problems. The University of Alabama is no exception to this trend as students and professors are working together to develop beneficial apps, including health related apps for blindness, obesity and diabetes.

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Tragically, the April 27 tornadoes caused loss of life and widespread damage in several states, especially in Alabama. In the wake of this disaster, engineers throughout the country are beginning to analyze building structures to help design safer and stronger buildings. A research team, consisting of academic researchers, code developers and professional engineers, has received a NSF Rapid Response Grant for Exploratory Research to investigate and gather data about the damage to, and performance of, woodframe structures in the affected areas due to strong winds.

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Dr. Adam Lankford, assistant professor of criminal justice, is a noted expert on terrorism and terrorists.

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The use of hydrogen as a practical, widespread alternative fuel to gasoline took another step today as researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and The University of Alabama announce a method for recycling a hydrogen fuel source.

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Dr. John van de Lindt, professor of structural engineering at The University of Alabama, has vast experience with building structures and earthquakes. He has done extensive research in Japan, Chile and the US West Coast.

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A geologist who develops mathematical models to depict precisely how the Earth moves during a quake and who was among the first to survey the origin of the 2004-tsunami-triggering earthquake, deep beneath the Indian Ocean, is available to answer questions about today’s quake and resulting tsunami.

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Super Bowl ads are arguably more of a pull for viewers than the game, and the cost of an advertising spot reflects that.

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In the new book, "God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War," Dr. George C. Rable, Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at The University of Alabama, examines how Americans used their faith to explain and deal with the enormous costs of the Civil War.

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In the 30th edition of “Educated Guesses,” The University of Alabama’s Office of Media Relations offers predictions from faculty experts for the coming year. This year, our faculty experts predict that Iran will cut a deal to stop developing nuclear weapons, health threats to Americans could include dengue and chikungunya fever, Baby Boomers will fight for Social Security as they turn 65 and much more.

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Despite a long-held acceptance that healthy diets must incorporate chromium III, new research indicates the element has no nutritional benefit.

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The University of Alabama will pay tribute to Autherine Lucy Foster, James Hood and the late Vivian Malone Jones, the three African-American students whose enrollment represented UA’s first steps toward desegregation, at the dedication of the Malone-Hood Plaza and Autherine Lucy Clock Tower at Foster Auditorium on Nov. 3.

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In April 2007, the government of Estonia decided to move a statue honoring Russian soldiers who died in World War II out of the capital of Tallinn. Angry ethnic Russians throughout the world launched a cyberattack on the small Baltic nation, crippling its cyber infrastructure for four days. Why did such an attack happen? And can it happen again?

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The signs in front of Doster Hall on the University of Alabama campus are not a misprint. It's part of one college's journey into Quick Response Codes.

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A trio of University of Alabama art professors have secured a $350,000 National Science Foundation grant to find new ways to create a “system” that will foster creativity among a large group of students participating in an online class.

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“Lado a Lado — Side by Side,” a joint exhibit by an American and a Cuban photographer, will appear from Monday, Oct. 11, through December in the Grand Gallery of Smith Hall on The University of Alabama campus.

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A molecular biologist will bring dozens of tiny, transparent animals that live in Gulf Coast waters back to his campus laboratory as part of an effort to better understand the oil spill’s long-term impact on the coastal environment and creatures living there.

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A cast of real-life astronomers and a Dutch schoolteacher who collaborated in the discovery and analysis of an unusual object in space are featured in a comic book to be unveiled Sept. 3 in Atlanta.

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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and a University of Alabama alumnus, will launch the Liberty and Power Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, at the Ferguson Center Auditorium.

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Kansas is touring the nation to perform with university orchestras; it will play Sept. 9 and 10 with The University of Alabama’s Huxford Symphony Orchestra.

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Most parents and students focus on time management as one of the keys to academic success. But managing stress is just as important. In fact, managing one’s stress and workload go hand in hand according to Michelle Harcrow, assistant director of health promotion and wellness at The University of Alabama.

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After a summer off, its always difficult for kids and their parents to get back into the school routine. Dr. Carol Donovan and Dr. Diane Sekeres, faculty members in the College of Education at The University of Alabama, offer these tips for getting organized for back to school.

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Parents, pull up a chair: Dr. Diane Sekeres and Sr. Madeleine Gregg, faculty members in the College of Education at The University of Alabama, share tips for parents from teachers.

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Suzanne Henson, assistant professor and director of the Coordinated Program in Dietetics at The University of Alabama, offers her tips on packing school lunches loaded in flavor and nutritional value.

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Camp Cash, a two-week summer program teaches students in grades six through nine the importance of money management and budgeting.

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Across the ocean, along the Mississippi, south to the Gulf of Mexico, over to France and Norway and down into hell itself — The University of Alabama’s theatre and dance department will take audiences on many exciting journeys during the 2010-2011 theatrical season.

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University Libraries is acquiring one of the most extensive collections of Americana and Southern history in private hands: the A. S. Williams III Collection of History and Culture of the South.

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Researchers are seeking to accelerate the chemical breakdown of the hydrocarbons contained in the oil spilled in the Gulf. Objectives include identifying sources of naturally occurring marine organic matter that will speed up the rate of this breakdown and identifying the bacteria involved.

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As efforts to address the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continue, University of Alabama experts are available to comment on areas ranging from the needs of small businesses devastated by the disaster to petroleum engineering, water quality and ecosystem issues.

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College students in Alabama are learning to think outside the box by enrolling in subjects ranging from Tweeting to Twilight to Julia Child.

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The environmental and economic impacts of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will likely be devastating, says Dr. Julia Cherry, assistant professor in New College and Biological Sciences.

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Shells from mollusks presented to the dead during ancient funeral ceremonies are keys to helping a geologist gauge ocean movements near the Peruvian coast from as much as 13,000 years ago.

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Birth control for moths – that’s one way of describing the focus of a start-up company hoping to take a bite out of the $100 billion hole that insects inflict each year via crop losses worldwide.

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Mystery surrounds a small charcoal-gray box recently removed from the cornerstone of Smith Hall, home of the Alabama Museum of Natural History on The University of Alabama campus. Nobody knows what’s inside the shoe-box sized copper container.

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A $5 million renovation of the Jones Archaeological Museum at Moundville Archaeological Park tells the story of the thriving Native American culture that built the site and let many beautiful artifacts, now on display.

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In a new book, Dr. Howard Jones describes just how close Britain, and other European powers, came to stepping in between North and South.

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Dr. Michael Picone served as an assistant editor and field researcher to trace the many threads that make up the French language as spoken in Louisiana.

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Discovery of an antibiotic’s capacity to improve cell function in laboratory tests is providing movement disorder researchers with leads to more desirable molecules with potentially similar traits.

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A Pakistani scholar plans to implement a social and emotional skill-building program she is studying in Alabama in 10 Pakistani elementary schools in an effort to reduce aggression and, perhaps one day, reduce the violence that plagues her country.

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Dr. Mark Thomas and his fellow physicians are developing guidelines for diagnosing and treating ADHD on campus.

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Acclaimed concert organist Stephen Tharp will highlight the School of Music’s 2010 Church Music Conference Friday, Jan. 29, and Saturday, Jan. 30, at the Concert Hall in UA’s Moody Music Building.

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A remodeling at Gorgas Library will bring in brighter colors, better lighting and space where students can work together, creating the new Gorgas Library Learning Commons.

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The University of Alabama’s Rural Health Institute for Clinical and Translational Science has received federal funding to expand telemedicine efforts in rural Alabama.

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A University of Alabama researcher is embarking on a $5.6 million clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of an innovative treatment that uses a noise-generating device, along with counseling, to alleviate tinnitus.

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The Blount Undergraduate Initiative for 10 years has drawn curious students and dedicated faculty to an intense living-and-learning environment starting with the freshman year.

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Those seeking to understand and predict climate change can now use an additional tool to calculate carbon dioxide exchanges on land, according to a scientific journal article publishing this week.

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Add guitars and other musical instruments to the tools caregivers can use to help patients in hospice care. That’s what University of Alabama senior Sarah Pitts found when she brought her music therapy skills to patients.

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Twenty years ago, history beckoned to Dr. David Michelson. Michelson, then 14, was living with his family in Bucharest, Romania. When Romanians took to the streets in protest in late December, Michelson’s father took him out to see history unfold first-hand.

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A chemical produced by common soil bacteria may kill neurons that produce dopamine, according to a study publishing Oct. 6.

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Two Native American Music Award winners highlight this year’s Moundville Native American Festival, from Wednesday, Oct. 7 to Saturday, Oct. 10, at Moundville Archaeological Park.