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What happens when you mix forensic engineering with abstract art? Ask Dr. Raymond Thompson. The first-gen college student turned engineering legend has spent more than 60 years looking at the hidden beauty inside metals. On this episode of Quick-Fire Quips, he joins APR's Baillee Majors to talk about the evolution of Alabama tech, his "love letter" to the city that launched his business career—and how he's turning industrial steel into stunning public art at Sloss Furnaces.

It’s an uncertain time in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump is working to cut the federal budget and the size of Uncle Sam’s workforce. One name isn’t making many headlines is the Peace Corps. Trump named a new chief of the program that sends volunteers to help in foreign countries. But, possible changes to the Peace Corps aren’t so far making their way to the public. APR looked into how the organization partners with Alabama universities and one volunteer who stepped up to help…

Rural Alabamians southwest of Huntsville will have drive longer distances for health care starting today. Lawrence Medical Center in the town of Moulton says it’s closing its emergency room. Residents of this Lawrence County community will have to travel to Decatur or Huntsville for treatment.

The White House crackdown on grant money from the National Institutes of Health has universities concerned, reportedly including UAB. Donald Trump’s move against diversity programs could change how research schools spend federal dollars. The current policy allows half of NIH grants to be used for staff or other costs. The White House wants that trimmed to fifteen percent. UAB received three quarters of a billion from NIH in 2022.

January marks national anti-human trafficking month. Lawmen say even small-town Alabama isn’t free of this crime, which is a billion dollar industry worldwide. The National Human Trafficking Hotline says it received over two hundred calls for help in 2023. The group says thirty-three of those callers were victims in this crime involving sex for money.

January is national anti-human trafficking month. It’s a campaign to focus on the billion dollar industry that deceives or forces people into being victims of sex or labor trafficking. Researchers at the University of Alabama in Birmingham are working at improving how trafficking can be tracked down on the internet.

New research suggests delaying the onset of high blood pressure may lower the risk of a stroke. The study's lead author, Dr. George Howard, an emeritus distinguished professor of biostatistics at UAB, discusses the importance of blood pressure treatment.

Alabamians are being offered support and resources for mental health as winter moves in and days grow shorter, and the temperatures drop. Seasonal affective disorder symptoms start in the late fall or early winter and go away during the spring and summer.

It's Halloween, and sugary foods are front and center at holiday parties and trick-or-treating. With candy being handed out, health experts weigh in on how much sugar is too much sugar.

The City of Birmingham, along with the Birmingham Region Health Partnership, is launching the Good Jobs Birmingham Healthcare recruitment campaign for jobseekers. The community-focused jobs initiative designed to build a pipeline of skilled healthcare and digital health professionals.