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The following videos offer additional information and perspective on five of the key stories in the Spring 2008 Research Magazine.

A Launching Pad for Entrepreneurs
Similarities abound between Donald Trump and The University of Alabama’s Dr. William “Bill” Gathings. No, maybe not the hair, but each has demonstrated an entrepreneurial spirit, and both are ardent promoters of a business-based competition with a reality TV show feel. Ok, so with Trump, it’s more than the feel of reality TV.

Catch and Release
Perched one-third of the way down the side of a deep ravine underneath a canopy of Southern Magnolia trees, one of the anglers, University of Alabama doctoral student J.J. Apodaca, deftly lowers his barbless, cricket-adorned hook into something other than water. What Apodaca is attempting to catch, you see, is trickier than landing a marlin from the deep sea. Instead, his focus is on one of our planet’s rarest creatures, the Red Hills Salamander.

Science of the Small Brings Giant Hope
Think, for a second, about the size of a red blood cell. Now, imagine anything that’s about 7,000 times smaller. That would be a nanometer. It’s also representative of the world in which a host of University of Alabama researchers are involved.

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