Scholarships and Recruiting Top Scholars
A few years ago, only two high school seniors in Alabama scored a perfect 36 on the ACT. With scholarship offers abounding, those students...
Bo’s Business
In 1989, at the height of Bo Jackson’s success as a star in two professional sports, Nike unveiled an advertising campaign that greatly exaggerated...
Student Housing’s Lux 10 Percent
Marketing phrases like “World Class Luxury” and “Student Living Redefined” are among those used in Tuscaloosa and Auburn to illustrate the distinct trend in...
Crime Watch Accounting
Inside the offices at Forensic Strategic Solutions Inc., in Birmingham, Ralph Summerford and his team of accountants gather in front of the large whiteboard...
Ice Cream from Gulf Shores may not Actually be Ice Cream
One thing you’ll notice when you walk into the new Liquid Freeze Ice Cream store in Gulf Shores is that there isn’t any ice...
Good to Know
From employee discrimination issues to the business of medicine, from legal ramifications of the ubiquitous email to regulations on one of the state’s newest...
Born to Build Guitars
When Roger Fritz recently relocated to Alabama — to Fairhope, on Mobile Bay — the state reclaimed the business of a master luthier —...
Need a Heart? We’ll Print You One
Talk about a potentially nasty printer jam. Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville are working toward, perhaps in a decade, being able...
The Tally on Tourism; Rockets at the Top
More than 580, 000 people visited the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville last year, making it the top state attraction charging admission,...
Spotlight on Covington, Butler, Crenshaw & Lowndes Counties
Covington, Butler, Crenshaw and Lowndes counties, located in southeast Alabama, have worked hard to recruit and attract diverse industries, scoring strong in aerospace and...