Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for the removal of Confederate monuments and periodical cicadas.
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A&S in the News: May 24-30, 2020
Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for internal clocks and an update on the Moody Music Building.
A&S in the News: May 17-23, 2020
Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for the Fulbright awards and mental health training for police.
Three UA Students Earn Hollings Scholarships
The scholarship provides a two-year academic award of $9,500 per year, and a 10-week, full-time, paid summer internship opportunity at any NOAA facility nationwide. Scholars also receive funding to present their NOAA research projects at two national scientific conferences.
A&S in the News: April 19-25, 2020
Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for the Moody Music Building fire and the UA opera theatre.
A&S in the News: Feb. 16-22, 2020
Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for Black History Month, study abroad programs, and more.
UA Professor Part of Team Building Brain-Inspired Artificial Intelligence
From the February 2020 Desktop News | How does the brain learn, store, and process information? This is the central question driving the MEMONET project―a group of multidisciplinary researchers whose goal is to study the brain and apply their discoveries to create a brain-inspired, spin-based artificial intelligence. Dr. Claudia Mewes, an associate professor of physics at UA, is one of five academics working on the project. Mewes, who specializes in spintronics and magnetic materials, is joined by researchers concentrating on […]
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A&S in the News: Jan. 26 – Feb. 1, 2020
Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for artificial constellations, earthquakes, and more.
Two UA Professors Get Boost with NSF CAREER Awards
From the Winter 2019 Collegian | The nation’s most prestigious recognition of top-performing young scientists was recently awarded to a biologist and a physicist at UA. The National Science Foundation granted a CAREER Award to Dr. Paulo T. Araujo, UA assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and Dr. Kevin M. Kocot, UA assistant professor of biological sciences and curator of invertebrate zoology in the Alabama Museum of Natural History. With the funding from the awards, Araujo will seek to understand […]
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A&S in the News: Dec. 15, 2019 – Jan. 4, 2020
Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for artificial constellations, the Bicentennial Park, and more.
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