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Dr. Memorie Gosa Named President of National Swallowing Board

Dr. Memorie Gosa

From the June 2018 Desktop News | Dr. Memorie Gosa, an assistant professor in UA’s Department of Communicative Disorders, was recently appointed the president of the American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (ABSSD).  Almost six months into this new role, she is working to expand the recognition of Board Certification in Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders. The ABSSD is a national organization that provides certification for speech-language pathologists who specialize in the identification and treatment of swallowing disorders, commonly called referred to […]

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UA Professor Finds John Stuart Mill in the Margins

Dr. Albert Pionke

From the June 2018 Desktop News | More than a century after John Stuart Mill’s personal library was donated to an Oxford college, a University of Alabama English professor and a team of international collaborators are allowing a broader audience access to the history literally hand-written by Mill into the margins of his books. Mill, arguably the preeminent English-speaking philosopher of the 1800s, annotated extensively as he read, and, along with his father, utilitarian philosopher James Mill, may have inscribed as many as […]

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New College Students Win Grand Prize in 2018 Aldag Business Plan Competition

High Five Studios were winners of the grand prize of $50,000 in the 2018 Edward K. Aldag Jr. Business Plan Competition.

From the May 2018 Desktop News | High Five Studios, a video game design company based in Tuscaloosa and run by UA students, took home the grand prize at the Culverhouse College of Business’s Edward K. Aldag Jr. Business Plan competition. The indie gaming studio won over $50,000 at this year’s Aldag competition, where they pitched their first game, “Prisoner,” to a panel of judges. The game received the grand prize and was also awarded third place for community affairs and […]

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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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