Post by Donna Cope from Alabama NewsCenter The holidays are supposed to be the happiest time of year but, for many across our state and nation, this season of joy is fraught […]
Good News Fridays: Alabama Town Is Ready For Its HGTV ‘Home Town Takeover’ Spotlight
Post is by Jennifer Kornegay from Alabama NewsCenter The notion of hometown pride may seem a quaint, old-fashioned sentiment in our modern – and increasingly cynical – era. But it’s real, and […]
Good News Fridays: Bimingham-Area Sixth Grader Among First In The Country To Pilot New LUCI Technology
Post by Tyler Greer for Alabama NewsCenter Last month, a pediatric patient at UAB Hospital became one of the first people in the world to receive a “smart” safety system on a power wheelchair. […]
GuideSafe May Be Secret Weapon Against COVID-19 For Alabama To Get Back To Normal
Post by Michael Tomberlin from Alabama NewsCenter Alabamians have a new weapon against COVID-19 this Labor Day weekend that they didn’t have the past two holiday weekends when cases spiked, and officials are urging […]
Good News Fridays: Viral ‘Can’t Touch This’ Principal Wants To Compete On ‘Dancing With The Stars’
Post by Anthony Cook for Alabama NewsCenter A principal’s parody of an MC Hammer video emphasizing COVID-19 guidelines has captured the heart of America and much of the world over the past three weeks, […]
HudsonAlpha Scientists Help Identify Important Parts Of The Human Genome
For nearly two decades, researchers at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, along with collaborators at Caltech, Penn State and UC Irvine, have been trying to understand how the human genome functions. As members of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements […]
Alabama’s Sidewalk Film Festival 2020: A Tale Of Four Short Films
Post by Alec Harvey from Alabama NewsCenter Though the Sidewalk Film Festival is in a new location this year – at the Grand River Drive-In in the Backyard in Leeds – some things remain the same. […]
UAB Preclinical Study Of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Shows Potent T-Cell Responses
Preclinical studies of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham show positive results that appear to distinguish this vaccine candidate from other vaccine candidates now in advanced stages of clinical […]
Alabama’s GuideSafe Exposure Notification App Launches Statewide
Post by Ashley Foster from Alabama NewsCenter GuideSafe – a platform developed by a team of experts at UAB to combat COVID-19 – today launched its anonymous Exposure Notification App to the general public. Supported […]
Emily’s Heirloom Pound Cakes To Share Its ‘Sweet’ Success Story With Millions On QVC, HSN Wednesday
Post from Alabama NewsCenter Millions of TV shoppers will be introduced this week to Emily’s Heirloom Pound Cakes and learn what makes this Homewood business’ original creations so unforgettably tasty. Emily’s Heirloom Pound Cakes […]