MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Nov. 21 -- The Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs issued the following news release: Gov. Kay Ivey has awarded grants totaling $2.5 million to 11 agencies in central Alabama that help children recover from abuse and neglect. "Child abuse and neglect have a significant negative impact upon the wellbeing of both children and families," Gov. Ivey said. "I commend these agencies for providing services that are essential to helping victims and their families r  more

AUBURN, Alabama, Nov. 21 -- Auburn University issued the following campus notice: Imagine having only three minutes to explain your research to a general audience - this is the challenge for students competing in the Three Minute Thesis, or 3MT, competition. Jacob Botello, a graduate student in Biological Sciences, won first place in Auburn's 2023 3MT competition on Tuesday, November 14 in the Melton Student Center Ballroom. Botello's presentation, "What's in a 'Game'? How video games can chan  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Nov. 21 -- University of Southern California's Pullias Center for Higher Education issued the following news: The Pullias Center recently named KC Culver as the Associate Director of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success. Culver, currently an Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration at the University of Alabama, also serves as the Co-PI on the Faculty, Academic Careers and Environments (FACE) Project, which is part of the Delphi Pr  more

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Nov. 21 -- Samford University issued the following news release: Lindy Cleveland '14 is this year's winner of the 2024 Council for Christian Colleges & Universities Young Alumni Award. The founder and executive director of Unless U, a non-profit that supports adults with developmental disabilities, will be presented the honor in January at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Inspired by her brother who has Down Syndrome, Cleveland founded Unless U during her senior year at Samf  more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Nov. 21 (TNSres) -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: By Russ Nelson Dr. Bryan L Mesmer, an associate professor and researcher at the University of Alabama in Huntsville's College of Engineering, will be teaming up with academics, other researchers and postgraduate science and technology students from four countries on a $1.26 million project supported by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme to deve  more

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: By Jeff Hansen It has been uncertain how Mycobacterium tuberculosis deflects the immune response in humans, though evidence has pointed to host immunometabolism -- the intrinsic link between metabolism in immune cells and their immune function. The pathogen M. tuberculosis is known to disrupt a metabolic pathway called glycolysis in infected myeloid cells, which include macrophages, through an unclear  more