Tag Archive for: North Alabama

NALZS Announces Claim Your Spot Campaign to Help North Alabama Zoo Progress

Since hosting its press conference in early 2021, the North Alabama Zoological Society’s (NALZS) announcement of bringing a zoo and an aquarium to the Rocket City has been met with excitement and enthusiasm. It’s no secret that building a world-class zoo doesn’t happen overnight. Despite the consensus of the community wanting a zoo, there is […]

HudsonAlpha’s Aims for Collaboration, Increasing Workforce Diversity, and Reducing Fertilizer Use

There’s nothing quite like a pandemic to shake up the best laid research plans. In late 2018, researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, in collaboration with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) were awarded a $3.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study nitrogen efficiency in sorghum.  Sorghum is a grain with […]

North Alabama Entrepreneurs Hone Your Dorsal Fin For Singing River Trail Launch Tank

The sharks are circling in North Alabama as the Singing River Trail announces the inaugural Singing River Trail Launch Tank business competition, presented by the regional Land Use Committee of Launch 2035. Targeting entrepreneurs from across eight counties in North Alabama, the Singing River Trail Launch Tank is modeled after the popular Shark Tank reality […]

Drake State and University of North Alabama Sign Learning Agreement

Drake State Community and Technical College graduates now have new educational options thanks to a partnership agreement signed with the University of North Alabama on Dec. 13.  Effective immediately, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the two schools will benefit all Drake State graduates seeking to complete their bachelor’s degrees at UNA by enabling […]

WEDC Foundation: Great Things Happen When Women Help Women

By advocating the collective power of encouragement, diversity, equity, and inclusion, women can literally move mountains. As November came to an end, the WEDC Foundation celebrated its 20th Anniversary through its annual fundraising event, Women Honoring Women. Women Honoring Women recognizes prominent women in the community who have created a legacy by overcoming obstacles and […]

No Moss Growing on the 212-Mile Singing River Trail

Aristotle once wrote, “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous”.  When the Land Use Committee of Huntsville’s Launch 2035 dedicated the first quarter mile of North Alabama’s original 70-mile-long Singing River Trail in late 2019, the idea of physically connecting Huntsville to Madison, Athens, and Decatur was quite marvelous – in […]

Toyota’s IFORCE Twin Turbo V6 Engine Got Some Motors Running at Toyota Alabama’s Line-Off Ceremony

To the driving beat of Steppenwolf’s classic Born to be Wild, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama got everyone looking for adventure at the plant’s Line-Off Ceremony when they officially unveiled their new IFORCE Twin Turbo V6 engine, made exclusively at the Huntsville plant, for all 2022 Toyota Tundras made in North America. The shimmering silver apparatus […]

Returning to a Screen Near You: The 9th Annual BIG Marketing & PR Event

Once again, The Catalyst Center for Business & Entrepreneurship and North Alabama Chapter of the Public Relations Council of Alabama (NAPRCA) have joined forces in presenting the 9th Annual BIG Marketing & PR Event. The event promises to be a day filled with marketing and public relations takeaways, along with valuable networking opportunities.  The event […]

MTM Gets Cranking on 2022 Toyota Corolla Cross; Mazda Starts Production on New CX-50 Crossover in January

Ladies and Gentlemen, start those engines!  Oops! Not your racing engines but the all-new namesake “Apollo” production line at Huntsville’s new Mazda Toyota Manufacturing!  With the push of a button this month, the new $2.3 billion, 3.7 million square foot MTM facility finally begins production on its first ever automobile – the 2022 Toyota Corolla […]

Toyota Alabama Revved Up and Ready to Produce the 2022 Tundra Twin-Turbo V6 Engine

Incredible power. Remarkable efficiency. Toyota Alabama announced they will begin exclusively producing the all-new twin-turbo V6 engine for the 2022 Toyota Tundra. The new i-FORCE MAX 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 engine line represents a $288 million investment in TMMA operations and it will add 450 jobs, bringing the plant’s total employment to 1800. “This is a […]