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		<title>A Catalyst for Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bryant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As anyone who has picked up a newspaper -- or stood in an unemployment line -- knows, creating jobs in today’s economic climate is a slow-lane struggle. In partnership with UA faculty and staff, two departments seek to use campus breakthroughs to accelerate lane changes.    ]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Ready to Rumble, Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bryant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time for another fight inside a large, second floor lab within The University of Alabama’s Science and Engineering Complex.]]></description>
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		<title>Living on the (Botanical) Edge</title>
		<link>http://research.ua.edu/2012/07/living-on-the-botanical-edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bryant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Clark doesn’t seem like a violent man. Yet, a group once wondered aloud whether he was one of those “foreigners who kills people and puts them in boiling water and extracts their fat to cook with.”
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		<title>Soaking Up Noise</title>
		<link>http://research.ua.edu/2012/06/soaking-up-noise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bryant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deafening noise during combustion can lead to jet engine failure. A University of Alabama engineering professor, working with the U.S. Navy, uses a sponge-like material to reduce engine noise at its source. 
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		<title>When the Earth Shakes</title>
		<link>http://research.ua.edu/2012/03/when-the-earth-shakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bryant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within The University of Alabama's South Engineering Research Center, professors are leading international efforts aimed at improving building codes and retrofitting existing buildings to reduce earthquake risks.     ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;This is Tomorrow&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://research.ua.edu/2012/02/this-is-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bryant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A materials science camp is one of several initiatives where The University of Alabama reaches into K-12 classrooms through its direct interaction with elementary, middle and high-school teachers. ]]></description>
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		<title>Shelter from the Storm</title>
		<link>http://research.ua.edu/2011/09/shelter-from-the-storm-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bryant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A crisis-communication expert finds traveling to a disaster area can be a short trip, and engineers evaluate tornado-riddled structures in an effort to design safer homes.
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		<title>Cooling Refrigeration Costs</title>
		<link>http://research.ua.edu/2011/08/cooling-refrigeration-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bryant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people know about refrigerator magnets. How about magnetic refrigerators? A University of Alabama professor of physics says a magnetic refrigerator operating at room temperature would use a third as much electricity as a typical home refrigerator. But there's reasons you won't yet find one on aisle five.    
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		<title>Storing Captured Carbon</title>
		<link>http://research.ua.edu/2011/03/storing-captured-carbon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bryant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three research projects, funded with nearly $13 million, involve University of Alabama scientists studying the feasibility of pumping carbon dioxide into the ground as an alternative to releasing the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of (Non Scientific) Crowds</title>
		<link>http://research.ua.edu/2011/02/the-wisdom-of-non-scientific-crowds/</link>
		<comments>http://research.ua.edu/2011/02/the-wisdom-of-non-scientific-crowds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bryant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astronomers, like scientists in many other fields, are turning in increasing numbers to "citizen scientists," members of the general public who often have zero formal training in science but who have a keen interest in a particular topic and show both a willingness and an aptitude to contribute.]]></description>
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