From the February 2020 Desktop News | UA psychology professor Rebecca S. Allen is working to train a new generation of psychologists to help combat the opioid crisis in the rural South. “We know that Alabama has some of the most prevalent opioid use problems in the nation,” Allen said. “So this is something we […]
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A&S in the News: February 2-8, 2020
Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for Family Night at the Museum, hemp research, and more. […]
UA Professor Part of Team Building Brain-Inspired Artificial Intelligence
From the February 2020 Desktop News | How does the brain learn, store, and process information? This is the central question driving the MEMONET project―a group of multidisciplinary researchers whose goal is to study the brain and apply their discoveries to create a brain-inspired, spin-based artificial intelligence. Dr. Claudia Mewes, an associate professor of physics […]
ALRI Awards Funds to Faculty to Address Neurodegenerative Diseases
Two assistant professors of biological sciences, Dr. Lukasz Cielsa and Dr. Stanislava Chtarbanova-Rudloff, will use the funds awarded to support basic science research in the area of neurodegeneration. […]
Cognitive Neuroscientist to Lead the Alabama Life Research Institute
From the Winter 2019 Collegian | After a national search, a noteworthy researcher in cognitive neuroscience will lead the Alabama Life Research Institute as executive director. Dr. Sharlene D. Newman will provide a coherent vision for collaborative life research that embraces the full range of disciplines represented on campus while strengthening UA’s research portfolio and […]
Two UA Professors Get Boost with NSF CAREER Awards
From the Winter 2019 Collegian | The nation’s most prestigious recognition of top-performing young scientists was recently awarded to a biologist and a physicist at UA. The National Science Foundation granted a CAREER Award to Dr. Paulo T. Araujo, UA assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and Dr. Kevin M. Kocot, UA assistant professor of […]
Making History
From the Winter 2019 Collegian | “Historians come cheap,” said Dr. Lisa Dorr, the winner of the 2007–2010 Faculty Fellowship for social sciences. “Really all we need is a little bit of money and a lot of time to be successful.” In fact, using the $9,000 she received from the Leadership Board, Dorr was able […]
Mapping New Mexico
Each summer, UA’s department of geological sciences sends a group of undergraduate students to New Mexico to practice field skills they’ll use in their future careers as geologists. […]
Restoring a Legend
From the Winter 2019 Collegian | Since its Gothic construction in 1163, Notre Dame Cathedral has been a religious and cultural monument worldwide. Its magnificent towers and buttresses have stood through regime changes and revolutions, through wars and celebrations and times of mourning. The echo of its bells, perhaps Paris’s most famous sound, have become […]
Listen Up: UA Faculty, Staff and Alumni Take On the Podcast Craze
From the Winter 2019 Collegian | In today’s digital landscape, long distance creative collaborations and friendships are only a phone call or Facetime away. Dr. William Justin Morgan, Robin Turner, and William “Boden” Robertson take advantage of the technology at their fingertips as much as they possibly can. Although they’re in different states, this trio […]
