News about Research
From the Winter 2019 Collegian | Outside of Dr. Jeffrey Lozier’s tent in the mountains of Sequoia National Park, a fresh layer of snow awaits the group of scientists about to embark on their day’s journey. The below-freezing temperatures and few flakes still falling make it difficult to leave the minimal warmth of his polyester shelter, even in layers of heavy clothes. In this cold climate, it’s difficult to remember that it’s the middle of May. There’s nothing remotely resembling […]
Dr. David A. Dixon, UA’s Robert Ramsay Professor of Chemistry, leads a team that will use a supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of the United States Department of Energy INCITE program.
From the October 2019 Desktop News | UA physics professor Dr. Andreas Piepke recently received a grant of $1.2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to explore the fundamental questions that have baffled physicists for decades. Piepke and his team study neutrinos, a type of subatomic particle that’s unique for its lack of an electric charge. “All other fundamental constituents of matter carry an electrical charge, and their antimatter particle is the opposite charge,” Piepke said. “But neutrinos are […]
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Dr. Gregory Starr, professor of biological sciences, provided data he and post-doctoral researchers from UA collected from Alaska to assist a large research project in the Arctic that shows the region could increase carbon dioxide emissions.
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Dr. Julia Cartwright, assistant professor of geological sciences, is leading a three-year, more than $400,000 grant from NASA to test whether meteorites from the asteroid belt reveal more about the activity of the solar system billions of years ago.
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Dr. Elizabeth Papish, an associate professor in UA’s chemistry department, recently received a National Science Foundation grant for her work revolutionizing the world of green chemistry by creating a more efficient catalyst to convert greenhouse gases into useful products.
Dr. Amber Buck of the Department of English specializes in rhetoric and composition studies and has conducted over five years of digital literacy-related research focusing on social media, privacy, and online identity.
Dr. Susan White, director of UA’s Center for Youth Development and Intervention, is spearheading the SENSE Theatre Intervention Program along with the assistance of UA psychologists, doctoral students, and the Tuscaloosa Academy theatre department.
Rachel Paulk has worked with Dr. Ryan Cook, assistant professor of educational studies, psychology, research methodology and counseling, and Dr. Diana Dolliver, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice, in gathering officers’ responses and neural data during virtual interactions with civilians.
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Dr. Carla Atkinson, an ecologist in the Department of Biological Sciences, is integral to research at UA to help better understand freshwater mussels, improving efforts to conserve and restore the animal to the state’s streams and rivers.
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