To better understand the nuances of Alabama’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, Dr. Nyesha Black, director of demographics for The University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research, partnered with GoDaddy’s Venture Forward research initiative to analyze new data from a recent study and found entrepreneurship is at an all-time high in Alabama.
Among the list of SEC schools, The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL) ranks as the most competitive, where actual rents of $1,504 is $30 lower than expected rents of $1,534 or 2% below predicted rents. This is according to ongoing, monthly report co-produced by the Alabama Center for Real Estate at the University of Alabama, Florida Atlantic University Real Estate Initiative, and Florida Gulf Coast University’s Lucas Institute for Real Estate Development & Finance.
A Culverhouse team consisting of ISM faculty members Drs. Nickolas K. Freeman, Gregory J. Bott, Burcu B. Keskin, Jason Parton, and James J. Cochran placed second in the 2023 INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award (IAAA) competition in April with their research, “Analytical Pipeline for Identifying Potential Sex Trafficking Victims in Commercial Sex Ad Data.”
Culverhouse made a strong showing at UA’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) conference this year with an impressive list of 25 student teams, each consisting of dedicated and hardworking students and faculty mentors.
Companies often send valued employees overseas, and these new cultural situations require stressful and often radical adjustments on the part of the expatriate employee.
Unlike individualistic cultures like that of the US, in collectivist cultures like Korea, group harmony is valued more highly than individual expression. To understand how collectivism interacts with trust propensity, or expectancy that “the words and promises of others are reliable,” the authors conducted four studies with multiple methods in multiple countries, and found a strong relationship between collectivism and trust.
The average cost to rent housing across the country continues to become more expensive, but the price increases are slowing, according to a monthly rent index compiled by three colleges including The Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE) at Culverhouse.
They pitched a product that has the ability to monitor the health of first and second-use batteries that retire from Electric Vehicles (EVs) in a variety of applications, derived from research and inventions from UA engineering professor Dr. Jaber Abu Qahouq’s lab.
Survey researchers have a tricky dilemma to solve: choose the faster and potentially less-frustrating single-item measures and run the risk of invalid or unreliable results, or choose the time-consuming multi-item measures, and run the risk of losing time, money, and research subjects due to fatigue or frustration.
When workers encounter traumatic experiences, from military combat exposure to civilian sexual harrassment, we expect negative impacts. But what about their intimate partners — spouses or life partners? Does trauma affect them also? How, how much, and why?
