CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 10 -- Fifth Third Bank issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: Fifth Third is entering the Alabama market and today announced the opening of a commercial banking office in Birmingham. The office is an expansion of its Fifth Third's operations in Georgia. The new office currently has commercial and treasury management capabilities and will expand to include a Fifth Third Private Bank office. Fifth Third's strategic expansion in the Southeast, now in its seventh  more

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, July 10 -- Samford University issued the following news release: Samford University's Department of Geography and Sociology in Howard College of Arts and Sciences has been "put on the map" with an award from the American Association of Geographers (AAG). This spring, at the AAG annual conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, Samford received an honorable mention for the 2024 AAG Award for Bachelor's Program Excellence. This award is quite the achievement for a department Samford's   more

MOBILE, Alabama, July 10 -- The University of South Alabama issued the following news release: The University of South Alabama has been awarded a NASA 'Living With a Star' grant worth $635,000 over four years. The 'Living With A Star' program targets specific aspects of the Sun-Earth system that affect life and society. The grant is for a project combining physics modeling and artificial intelligence for better detection and understanding of substorms, which are geomagnetic events in the eart  more