From the November 2013 Desktop News | Over the years, a range of methods and techniques have been developed to help children diagnosed with autism enhance their social skills. Now, thanks to research done by Dr. Angela Barber, an assistant professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders who specializes in autism spectrum disorders, students in UA’s Emerging Scholars program, and other UA faculty, there’s an app for that. The smart phone app is designed to boost the interpersonal communication skills of children […]
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Articles about news in the College, from student and faculty accomplishments to research advances, new academic programs, and the impact of giving.
Caldwell Lab Collaborates on Groundbreaking Research
From the November 2013 Desktop News | Scientists have identified a chemical compound that enhances cells’ natural abilities to combat a protein linked to Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The findings, which were recently published in Science online, could lead to the compound or a related molecule being tested as a potential drug to combat these diseases. Drs. Guy and Kim Caldwell, both professors in the Department of Biological Sciences, collaborated with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Purdue University, and […]
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Rothman’s Book Recognized with Two Awards
From the November 2013 Desktop News | Dr. Josh Rothman, a professor in the Department of History and the director of the Frances Summersell Center for the Study of the South, was recently honored with two awards for his book, Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson. The work won the Gulf South Historical Association’s Michael V.R. Thomason Book Award for the best book on the history of the Gulf South. The Gulf […]
Art and Technology Shine at Exhibit
From the November 2013 Desktop News | Student works created using new media technologies will be the focus of the exhibit, “[ENTER]Connect,” which will be on display at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center until Nov. 22. The artworks, which use techniques such as 3-D printing, 3-D scanning, microcontrollers and projection mapping, are a result of students participating in a 3-D design course taught for both art and engineering majors. “Visitors to the show will see artwork made by students from a […]
Shakespeare in American Integration
From the November 2013 Desktop News | “Shakespeare and American Integration,” a two-day symposium to be held November 15-16, will discuss integration in Shakespeare’s works. The event is part of “Through the Doors,” the yearlong series of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of desegregation at UA. Dr. Sharon O’Dair, director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies and a professor in the Department of English, envisioned the symposium first through a musical connection. “I knew that trombonist Defeayo Marsalis had […]
Psychologist to Provide Guidance for Evaluating ‘Extraordinary Claims’
Acclaimed psychologist Dr. Scott O. Lilienfeld will be the guest speaker for the Annual Michael Dinoff Memorial Lecture on The University of Alabama campus Friday, Nov. 15. The topic will be “Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life: A Field Guide for Evaluating Extraordinary Claims.” The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in room 208, Gordon Palmer Hall, and it is free and open to the public. Lilienfeld will speak about how people can better navigate the confusing world of extraordinary […]
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Fall Spectrum Concert This Friday
Free performance highlights talents of music school This Friday faculty and students of the School of Music will collaborate in the fall Spectrum concert, a showcase of UA’s best musicians. Expect everything from classical to jazz selections, all highlighting the immense talent of UA music students and faculty. The concert will culminate in an appearance by the entire University of Alabama Million Dollar Band, which will perform the football cheers and songs Crimson Tide fans know and love. The show begins […]
Symposium Examines Student Perceptions of Race Relations at UA
The University of Alabama is taking a timely look at the history of race relations on campus with a symposium on student perceptions of race relations, featuring historical and contemporary perspectives Wednesday, Nov. 6, in Gorgas Library, room 205, from 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Speakers will detail student responses to questions of race dating back to the turbulent 1960s, when the University became an integrated campus. “The original purpose of the symposium was to better understand the progress we’ve made with race relations […]
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Cultural Arts Center Gallery Unveils Next Exhibition
The next exhibition in The University of Alabama Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, “Wash by Margaret Wrinkle: Seeing Across the Divide,” features a series of photographs taken by Wrinkle at slavery-related sites throughout the South while researching her critically acclaimed novel, “Wash.” Published by Grove/Atlantic, Wrinkle’s novel “Wash” reexamines American slavery in ways that challenge many contemporary assumptions about race, power, history, and healing as it carries the reader from the American South to West Africa. Wrinkle paired each of her […]
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ALLELE Lecturer to Discuss “The Consuming Instinct”
Dr. Gad Saad, an evolutionary economist and professor of marketing at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, will deliver the next lecture in the 2013-2014 ALLELE Lecture series on Thursday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building Auditorium on The University of Alabama campus. His lecture, “The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature,” is based on his book of the same title. ALLELE lectures are coordinated by the Evolution Working Group at UA, […]
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