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UA Professor Uses NSF Grant to Explore Evolution and Facilitate Diversity

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From the September 2021 Desktop News | Dr. Alberto Pérez-Huerta, a professor of geological sciences at The University of Alabama, hopes to change the way people think of geology’s role in the emergence of life on Earth. In July 2020, Pérez-Huerta received an EAGER grant from the National Science Foundation to help him not only make that happen, but to bring Stillman College students with him along the way. Pérez-Huerta’s research focuses on the hypothesis that the biomolecules that eventually […]

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New College Professor Awarded Two Fulbright Positions

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From the August 2021 Desktop News | Dr. Andrew Raffo Dewar, a professor of interdisciplinary arts in New College and the School of Music, was recently awarded two different Fulbright positions in one year: one as a Fulbright specialist in Bogotá, Colombia, and the other as a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Toronto, Canada. Dewar, whose work as a composer, performer, and ethnomusicologist has allowed him to create and study the intersections of art, music and culture, will work in […]

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In Detecting Particle, UA Researchers Help Prove 60-Year-Old Theory

From the UA News Center | Two researchers from The University of Alabama are part of an international project that detected a cosmic interaction never observed before, but predicted 60 years ago. Drs. Dawn Williams and Marcos Santander, both in the UA Department of Physics and Astronomy, are co-authors on a paper published in Nature that details how a massive telescope buried in an Antarctic glacier detected the moment a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino, hurtling to Earth from outer space at close to the […]

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