University of Alabama

Oklahoma tornado is a standout, storm scientist says

2013-05-21 12:23:00

A tornado researcher at the University of Alabama at Huntsville couldn't believe it when he heard Monday that a devastating twister was headed toward Moore, Okla. "One of my graduate students came in my office yesterday and said, 'Moore is about to be...

Spending teenage years in the 'stroke belt' seems to increase risk

2013-04-24 14:59:00

Spending adolescence in the “stroke belt” of the southeastern United States could make people more vulnerable to stroke later in life – even if they eventually move elsewhere, a study published Wednesday suggests. What researchers call...

Traditional Southern diet, stroke may be linked, researcher says

2013-02-07 17:37:00

Traditional Southern diets may be linked to a higher risk of stroke, a researcher said at a conference on Thursday. The lead researcher, Suzanne Judd, a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of Alabama, said her study is the first large-scale...

James A. Hood dies at 70; fought segregation at University of Alabama

2013-01-19 00:00:00

James A. Hood, one of two black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama in June 1963 led to Gov. George Wallace's segregationist "stand in the schoolhouse door" and who later forged an unlikely friendship with the former governor, has...

Pictures in the News | Aug. 29, 2012

2012-08-29 10:33:54

Karl Fleming dies at 84; Newsweek reporter chronicled civil rights struggle

2012-08-12 00:00:00

Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it —...

George A. Miller dies at 92; pioneer of cognitive psychology

2012-08-06 00:00:00

George A. Miller, an iconoclastic psychologist who played a crucial role in shifting his field from the study of behaviors to the direct examination of thought processes, died July 22 at his home in Plainsboro, N.J. He was 92 and died of complications...

Alabama tornado team scours paths of killer storms

2011-07-09 14:44:00

HACKLEBURG, ALA. -- The Mobile Meteorological Measurement Vehicle -- a worn-looking '90s-model Dodge Intrepid with classic rock on the radio, a tower of weather gauges attached to its roof and a laptop computer bolted to its dash -- crested a rolling hill...

Nicholas Katzenbach dies at 90; attorney general under Johnson

2012-05-10 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Nicholas Katzenbach, the Kennedy administration lawyer who faced down Gov. George Wallace to enroll the first black students at the University of Alabama and who helped write the landmark civil rights and voting rights acts of the...

Gene Bartow dies at 81; former UCLA basketball coach

2012-01-04 00:00:00

Gene Bartow, the successor to John Wooden as UCLA basketball coach who became the architect of a new and successful athletics program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, died Tuesday evening. He was 81. Bartow, who was diagnosed with stomach...

'Gump,' 'Bambi' among 2011 National Film Registry selections

2011-12-27 21:38:06

PASSINGS: Claude Kirk, Arch West

2011-09-29 00:00:00

Claude Kirk Florida's 1st GOP governor of 20th century Claude Kirk, 85, a flamboyant self-promoter who became Florida's first Republican governor of the 20th century, died Wednesday at his West Palm Beach home, his family announced. Democrats dominated...

Research students from the the University of Alabama measure wind speeds as Hurricane Isaac makes landfall Wednesday in New Orleans.

2012-08-29 09:38:54

Research students from the the University of Alabama measure wind speeds as Hurricane Isaac makes landfall on Wednesday.

2012-08-29 07:26:00