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Scientists Show Viable Path to Finding Long-Sought Particle
Using the Large Hadron Collider in the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, an international group of scientists are searching for magnetic monopoles, which would transform the field of physics.
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Going with the Flow
From the 2021 Collegian | In the heart of Tuscaloosa County, a small stream runs through the woods. Here, frogs hop from stone to stone, insects and butterflies flutter about, and water transports fish and other river dwellers downstream. Locals spend their days on the creek’s banks, swimming, hiking, and adventuring in their own backyard. This stream is known as Hurricane Creek, a tributary of the Black Warrior River. A landmark to Tuscaloosa natives, Hurricane Creek has long been […]
Grants Boost UA Climate Science Research Efforts
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded funding for climate science and community resilience projects involving researchers from The University of Alabama and universities around the Southeast.
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Center for Youth Development and Intervention Sets the Standard for Community-Engaged Research
From the September 2021 Desktop News | Over the past several years, the Center for Youth Development and Intervention (CYDI) has become an example on UA’s campus of successful community engagement. Through community-based research, scholars at the center hope to improve life for those around them and throughout the world. “One in five children and adolescents in the US need mental health services,” said Dr. Susan White, psychology professor and Director of the CYDI. “In fact, most mental health disorders […]
UA Professor Uses NSF Grant to Explore Evolution and Facilitate Diversity
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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Partnership to Develop Kit to Discover Drugs From Natural Sources
Dr. Lukasz Ciesla, assistant professor of biological sciences, is working with Regis Technologies Inc., a biotechnology company based in Morton Grove, Illinois, that offers services to expedite drug development, on a grant from NIH Small Business Technology Transfer program.
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New College Professor Awarded Two Fulbright Positions
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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UA Artist and Historian Collaborate on Climate Change Exhibit
“Dangerous Landscapes,” a collaborative exhibit between assistant professor of art Allison Grant and associate professor of history Dr. Teresa Cribelli, aims to encourage conversations within Alabama about how climate change will impact the Deep South, a region expected to experience profound climatic shifts.
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Same Pandemic, Different Attitudes
In a series of studies over the course of the global pandemic, assistant professor of geography Dr. Wanyun Shao examined the formation of risk perception and the drivers of participating in mitigation behaviors, and found some behaviors are different than what might be expected.