Awards – Page 6 – College of Arts & Sciences

Digital Honors: Jalen Johnson

April 16, 2020

Jalen Johnson is one of this year’s Dean’s Award of Merit winners. A senior from Selma, Alabama, Jalen majored in criminal justice and minored in general business. What has been your favorite experience? Serving as president of Future Black Law Student Association has been my favorite experience at The University of Alabama. Future Black Law Student Association has grown tremendously over the year, and I am more than proud of experiencing this growth. Future Black Law Student Association has expanded […]

Two UA Professors Get Boost with NSF CAREER Awards

January 28, 2020

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 biological sciences and curator of invertebrate zoology in the Alabama Museum of Natural History. With the funding from the awards, Araujo will seek to understand […]

Taking Up Space

January 27, 2020

Josh Burford in orange, pink, and purple lighting.

From the Winter 2019 Collegian | Over the past year, Joshua Burford’s life has been a whirlwind. After being featured in newspapers and radio shows around the country, including The New York Times, he was selected as one of NBC’s “Pride50,” a group of 50 veteran and up-and-coming activists in the LGBTQ community in the United States. But for Burford, all of this pales in comparison to expanding his life’s work: saving and creating a space for Southern queer history. […]

Mathematics Strives to Be a Leader in Diversity and Inclusion

January 27, 2020

Some of the math graduate students in front of a sculpture in Woods Quad.

From the Winter 2019 Collegian | Awa Traore had a few qualifications for institutions where she would pursue her PhD in mathematics: one that was close to her home in Birmingham, and one where she would be encouraged and pushed to be successful throughout her program. When she learned that two other black women were successfully working their way through UA’s program, she decided that she could see herself at UA. “When I came here, and I saw there were […]

UA Professor Celebrated for Experimental Opera

January 14, 2020

Dr. Andrew Dewar with his synthesizer. i

Dr. Andrew Raffo Dewar, an associate professor in New College, was recently awarded the Robert M. Stevenson Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology for his 2018 experimental opera, “Volver.”

UA Honors Opera Director with Blackmon-Moody Award

December 17, 2019

Dr. Paul Houghtaling, coordinator of voice and director of opera at The University of Alabama, has received the 2019 Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award.

Black Warrior Review Awarded National Literary Magazine Prize

August 16, 2019

The cover of the Black Warrior Review pasted over the faces of three men in suits.

From the August 2019 Desktop News | The Black Warrior Review, a literary magazine run entirely by UA graduate students, was recently awarded a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize, the largest national prize for nonprofit literary magazines. “It’s very impressive and welcome news that the Whiting Foundation took notice of this student publication here at UA and wanted to reward it with this grant and support it to keep doing the work that they’re doing,” Joel Brouwer, the chair of UA’s […]

Lochman Named 2019 Buford Peace Award Winner

May 10, 2019

Dr. John Lochman, retired director of the Center for the Prevention of Youth Behavior Problems at The University of Alabama, is the 2019 recipient of the Lahoma Adams Buford Peace Award.

UA Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Chair Receives Fulbright Scholar Grant

May 2, 2019

Three members of The University of Alabama’s faculty will receive Fulbright Scholar Grants for the upcoming year, including Dr. Kevin Shaughnessy, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.

Honors Week 2019: Schedule

March 26, 2019

Honors Week, The University of Alabama’s weeklong recognition of our students’ academic achievements, takes place this year from April 1–5. 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 departments or the A&S Dean’s Office. All events are open to the public. College of Arts & Sciences Events Event: Graduate Honors Convocation Date: Monday, […]