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Personifying UA Values: Harris Receives Three Awards in One Month

Dr. Trudier Harris

From the May 2018 Desktop News | Dr. Trudier Harris, a University of Alabama distinguished research professor of English, is on a roll. After having just received the 2018 Clarence E. Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing March 2, Harris has now been selected as a recipient of the 2018 SEC Faculty Achievement Award and has been named a 2018-19 Fellow of the National Humanities Center. National Humanities Center Fellowship “A National Humanities Center Fellowship is among the most prestigious honors in the country for our discipline, […]

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Horse Ballet? UA Professor Sheds Light on the Understudied Form

Jessica Goethals

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 […]

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Grasping Antibiotic Resistance Goal of UA, Spring Hill College Project

  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 […]

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Tweaking Therapy for Disadvantaged Patients Improves Chronic Pain

From the April 2018 Desktop News |  Adapting cognitive behavioral therapy and group pain education for disadvantaged patients improved their chronic pain, according to a study led by psychologists at The University of Alabama. It is the first rigorous trial to test if cognitive behavioral therapy is effective for patients of low socioeconomic status.Held at community health clinics serving low-income patients in mostly rural areas of Alabama, the study set out to find if simplifying cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, and […]

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Partnership Brings UA, Pakistan Researchers Together

From the April 2018 Desktop News | A professor at The University of Alabama is part of an international team performing geological research in northeast Pakistan aiming to understand where possible oil and gas deposits reside beneath the surface. Dr. Delores M. Robinson, UA professor of geological sciences, joined a researcher from Pakistan to discover potential of hydrocarbon at the base of the Himalayas. The project is part of the U.S.-Pakistan Science and Technology Cooperation Program, co-funded by the Department of State […]

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