Harvesting Electricity to Recharge Mobile Devices Wirelessly
Harvesting the energy from radio waves is the science behind a new company — E-Electricity — that is using $23, 500 it won in...
Ideas From Alabama Edisons
Virtually everything we consider essential to daily life started with an idea. There’s a fine line between crazy and ingenious, yet some of the...
Intergraph: Software Victories and Avocent: a Golden Gizmo
Intergraph
Hardware Wars to Software Victories
In the late ’80s, Intergraph Corp. was the premiere high tech company in Alabama, even before high tech was perceived...
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology: Jim Hudson on Creativity
For this issue focused on innovation and creativity, our Executive Q&A has gone to scientific innovation central — the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Jim...
Spotlight on Jackson, Marshall, DeKalb and Cherokee Counties
Jackson, Marshall, DeKalb and Cherokee counties enjoy a great location in northeast Alabama. Close to Huntsville’s successful high-tech community and opportunities in Tennessee and...
White Noise to Rocket Science: UAH Student Does the Research
A graduate student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has created a novel approach to the problems of combustion instability — a condition...
Creative Thinking for Fun and Profit
Make Less A Lot More >> Andrew Freear
Andrew Freear apologizes for being late for an appointment. He was on a roof laying sheets of...
Hands-On Soulful Designs
No place fits the proverb, “necessity is the mother of invention” better than Hale County in west-central Alabama. It’s here in the fertile Black...
Laser Beams can use a “Carefully Balanced Thrust” to Protect the Earth
Lasers based in space could effectively deflect small asteroids, making Earth a safer place to live, scientists from the University of Alabama in Huntsville...
Business School Change at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
In recognition of the biggest philanthropic support ever for University of Alabama at Birmingham, the university has renamed its business school the Charles and...