Coach Charming Takes on TLC
We told you he was a star in Business Alabama’s February issue and the TLC network has proven us right. Andalusia attorney and beauty...
Health Perspectives from Grandview
Keith Granger is the president and CEO of Grandview Health, Alabama’s newest hospital. Formerly called Trinity Medical Center, the hospital moved from...
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...
Metallurgical Reimagining
Some 12 years ago Frank Ledbetter’s life was in tatters. An ill-fated expansion had plunged the metal fabrication shop he’d founded in 1976 more...
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...
