Google “Data Center + Alabama”
Google will break ground this year on a new, $600 million data center in rural Jackson County near Scottsboro on the site of...
School Teacher Becomes Aqua-entrepreneur
Soft-shell crab fans are fanatically devoted to these newly molted crustaceans with their edible shells. As one devotee described the first bite, “One...
Biotech Startup Specialist
It’s a bright Friday afternoon, and the sunlight pours into the glass-faced foyer of the Mitchell Cancer Institute, in Mobile. Michael Chambers,...
Cultivating Creativity
How do you create an environment conducive to innovation? Drawing on a lifetime of learning and experience, James Blackmon, a research...
Engineering for Smart Health
When Emil Jovanov moved to the warm Alabama climate, he learned “the hard way” that some health issues, such as fatigue or...
The Upside of Shrimp May Be the Shells
What George Washington Carver did for the lowly peanut, a quartet of scientists at the University of Alabama hopes to do for smelly...
Often a Great Notion
If “necessity is the mother of invention, ” Alabama is a good mom. Here are some of her sons, 10 remarkable men you...
The Creativity of Worker Ownership
Perhaps more so than any company in Alabama, innovation goes way back at American Cast Iron Pipe Co. To be sure, ...
Cast Iron Creativity
Call it apropos that Birmingham-based American Cast Iron Pipe Co. unveiled its latest product innovation — the American Earthquake Joint System — at a...
Inventing Faster and Faster
Kevin Schneider is the chief technology officer at Huntsville-based Adtran Inc., a publicly traded information technology company (NASDAQ: ADTN), with sales of...
