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New College Students Win Grand Prize in 2018 Aldag Business Plan Competition

May 9, 2018

High Five Studios were winners of the grand prize of $50,000 in the 2018 Edward K. Aldag Jr. Business Plan Competition.

From the May 2018 Desktop News | High Five Studios, a video game design company based in Tuscaloosa and run by UA students, took home the grand prize at the Culverhouse College of Business’s Edward K. Aldag Jr. Business Plan competition. The indie gaming studio won over $50,000 at this year’s Aldag competition, where they pitched their first game, “Prisoner,” to a panel of judges. The game received the grand prize and was also awarded third place for community affairs and […]

More Than Climate, Engineering Worsening Flooding Along Mississippi

May 9, 2018

Through discovering ancient floods along the Mississippi River, a group of scientists, including Dr. Matthew D. Therrell, UA professor of geography, found human-led engineering, not climate, is the largest influence on worsening floods.

UA Researcher Helps to Understand Possible Antarctic Glacier Collapse

May 9, 2018

Dr. Rebecca Totten Minzoni, an assistant professor of geological sciences at The University of Alabama, has a role to play as a marine geologist and paleontologist in the roughly $25 million research collaboration.

Horse Ballet? UA Professor Sheds Light on the Understudied Form

May 9, 2018

From the May 2018 Desktop News | Dr. Jessica Goethals, an assistant professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Classics, was recently awarded the William Nelson Prize from the Renaissance Society of America for her 2017 article “The Patronage Politics of Equestrian Ballet: Allegory, Allusion, and Satire in the Courts of Seventeenth-Century Italy and France.” The award, given annually to the best article published in Renaissance Quarterly each year, is given by the Renaissance Society of America. The […]

A&S in the News: April 29-May 5, 2018

May 7, 2018

Read local and national news that features faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for spring commencement, autism research, E.O. Wilson, and more.

UA Researcher Helps to Understand Possible Antarctic Glacier Collapse

May 3, 2018

Dr. Rebecca Totten Minzoni, an assistant professor of geological sciences at The University of Alabama, has a role to play as a marine geologist and paleontologist in the roughly $25 million research collaboration.

New UA Center to Focus on Water Science and Engineering

May 2, 2018

A new research center at The University of Alabama aims to improve accuracy of data and reduce uncertainty for water management and emergency preparedness.

UA Professor Finds John Stuart Mill in the Margins

May 1, 2018

UA English professor Dr. Albert Pionke and a team of international collaborators are allowing a broader audience access to the history literally hand-written by Mill into the margins of his books.

Studying Arms Race between Bacteria, Viruses Brings CAREER Award

April 9, 2018

Researchers at The University of Alabama hope to better understand how bacteria and viruses battle each other and, in the process, devise new strategies to combat antibiotic-resistant infections.

Grasping Antibiotic Resistance Goal of UA, Spring Hill College Project

April 9, 2018

Dr. Jack Dunkle From the April 2018 Desktop News | A key to combating the rise of bacteria with resistance to antibiotics is grasping how bacteria ward off the drugs. With a new grant from the National Institutes of Health, researchers at The University of Alabama and Spring Hill College hope their study of a common defense mechanism in bacteria will further development of therapies that could give a class of antibiotics a leg up in the microbial battle. “If we […]