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 […]
Tag: Desktop News May 2018
More Than Climate, Engineering Worsening Flooding Along Mississippi
Through discovering ancient floods along the Mississippi River, a group of scientists, including Dr. Matthew D. Therrell, UA professor of geography, found human-led engineering, not climate, is the largest influence on worsening floods. […]
UA Researcher Helps to Understand Possible Antarctic Glacier Collapse
Dr. Rebecca Totten Minzoni, an assistant professor of geological sciences at The University of Alabama, has a role to play as a marine geologist and paleontologist in the roughly $25 million research collaboration. […]
Personifying UA Values: Harris Receives Three Awards in One Month
From the May 2018 Desktop News | Dr. Trudier Harris, a University of Alabama distinguished research professor of English, is on a roll. After having just received the 2018 Clarence E. Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing March 2, Harris has now been selected as a recipient of the 2018 SEC Faculty Achievement Award and has been named a 2018-19 Fellow of […]
Alumnus Launches Leadership, Entrepreneurship Program with Gift
Jeffrey A. Levitetz has committed $1 million through his family’s foundation to The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences to establish the Levitetz Leadership Program. […]
Horse Ballet? UA Professor Sheds Light on the Understudied Form
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 […]
