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. […]
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Dr. Russell McCutcheon Named Distinguished Research Professor
Dr. Russell T. McCutcheon, the chair of the religious studies department at The University of Alabama, was recently appointed by the UA Board of Trustees as a Distinguished Research Professor. […]
Honors Week 2018: Schedule
Honors Week, The University of Alabama’s weeklong recognition of our students’ academic achievements, takes place this year from April 2–6. As in previous years, the College of Arts and Sciences will celebrate Honors Week with a variety of College-wide and department-specific events. Following is a quick rundown of those events; for details, contact the sponsoring […]
Chemistry Professor to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Russian Academy of Sciences
UA chemistry professor Dr. Michael Bowman is being honored for his leading-edge work at the N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry in Russia with an honorary doctorate. […]
Civil War Opera Lands National Recognition
From the March 2018 Desktop News | The University of Alabama’s Opera Theatre won second place in the National Opera Association’s Opera Production Competition for its earlier world-premiere chamber opera production “Freedom and Fire! A Civil War Story.” The NOA is an organization that promotes excellence in opera education and pedagogy through its support of a […]
UA Chemistry Professor to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Russian Academy of Sciences
From the March 2018 Desktop News | UA chemistry professor Dr. Michael Bowman is being honored for his leading-edge work at the N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry in Russia with an honorary doctorate. The doctorate comes from Bowman’s ground-breaking work in pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and its applications to triarylmethyl, or trityl, radicals, which […]
Honors Week 2018: Schedule
Honors Week, The University of Alabama’s weeklong recognition of our students’ academic achievements, takes place this year from April 2–6. As in previous years, the College of Arts and Sciences will celebrate Honors Week with a variety of College-wide and department-specific events. Following is a quick rundown of those events; for details, contact the sponsoring […]
A&S in the News: February 11-17, 2018
Opera Theatre Orchestra, opera team up for Valentine’s show: Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 12 As symbols of love, diamonds display facets. Like life, they derive from carbon, trapped under extreme heat and pressure, but once stabilized — metastabilized, in fact — to equilibrium, they’re among the toughest substances in the world … John Lennon and Paul […]
UA Professor Receives Book Award
From the February 2018 Desktop News | Dr. Lucy Curzon, an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History, has received a national award for her book, Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain. Curzon’s book won the Historians of British Art Book Prize for best book published in 2016, receiving the top […]
Doctoral Student Wins National Travel Grant
From the February 2018 Desktop News | Every year the American Chemical Society Division of Polymer Chemistry selects two students from across the country as recipients for a travel grant to attend and present research at The National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. One of the two students selected for the 2018 conference is UA’s very […]
