The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Poor States Take up Charity Slack
Wealthy Americans are putting a smaller share of their income in the collection pot for the needy, but states like Alabama, with comparatively modest...
E-Textbook: Big Communications Way to Classroom Job Building
It’s downloadable on your smart phone, brightened with information pop-ups, enlivened with video and generally just not your granddad’s textbook: e-textbook.
It’s the new e-textbook...
Alabama's Largest Subcontractors 2014
The companies provided the information for this ranking. In some instances where information was unavailable, those categories have been marked with Did Not...
Vista Engineering & Consulting LLC: The Cutting Edge of Diamond Forming
Scientific exploration is the kinetic energy coursing through Vista Engineering & Consulting LLC. With more than 30 years of engineering experience, Raymond Thompson formed...
Vulcan Materials: Hard Rock Mining Easing Up
Tom Hill, in July, was named president and CEO of Vulcan Materials Inc., the second largest nonbank public company in Alabama, with revenues of...
Custom Engineering Solutions for Manufacturers
Back when they were students at the University of Alabama’s School of Engineering, Arnar Thors says he and Matt Fitzgerald often collaborated on class...
Airbus A320: Airbus Launches A320 Designed for Alabama
Airbus had a lot to celebrate in late September, with its first A320neo lifting off from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport France, its smart-looking wing sharklets slicing...
Cullman, Walker and Winston Counties Take the Spotlight
Cullman, Walker and Winston counties are situated in north central Alabama and share Lewis Smith Lake, one of 11 premier bass fishing lakes located...
Scholarship Scandal: Miss America’s Padded Scholarship Claims
The stranger-than-fiction development of hard news being reported by comedy show “anchors” continues this fall with John Oliver, host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,...
Biofuel: The Farmer’s Alchemist To Stop Waste of Biomass
There’s oil in them there … corn cobs?
A Tuscaloosa-based company certainly thinks so. Inventure Renewables has created a process to take basic waste biomass,...
