MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Aug. 6 -- Auburn University Montgomery campus issued the following news: Auburn University at Montgomery has earned a $49,000 grant from Wake Forest University's Educating Character Initiative to redefine student success more holistically through character-building workshops, programs, and curricula. The one-year, capacity building grant will support AUM's "Purpose and Character for Student Flourishing" project, led by Aaron Cobb, Department of English and Philosophy Chair  more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Aug. 6 -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: By Russ Nelson Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has won a $750,000 Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) award to support STROBE-X, a planned $1 billion probe-class NASA observatory that aims to unlock the secrets of some of the most extreme conditions in the universe. The researcher will be collaborating with an international team of scientists,   more

MOBILE, Alabama, Aug. 6 -- The University of South Alabama issued the following news release: Dr. David Messenger, chair of the Department of History, and several of his students at the University of South Alabama will help create a community public history project for Africatown. "It's important that South supports the efforts of Africatown," Messenger said. "I reached out to the Africatown community to see how I could use my professional expertise to help. Not only will I support this projec  more

STILLWATER, Oklahoma, Aug. 5 -- Oklahoma State University issued the following news: Dr. Ying Zhang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology at Oklahoma State University, has received a $1.1 million subaward from a $6 million National Science Foundation grant for the project "Accelerating Community-Centric Energy Transformation through Artificial Intelligence-Driven Digital Twinning for Climate-Aware Resilience." Zha  more