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VitAL Receives Grant for Suicide Prevention Efforts

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama Department of Mental Health (ADMH) and VitAL are the recipients of a significant grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This grant, known as the Project Zero Suicide in Alabama, represents a substantial investment in suicide prevention efforts in the state of Alabama. The Zero Suicide framework is designed to proactively address suicide by emphasizing prevention and early intervention within healthcare facilities. VitAL will leverage this model to ensure that multi-level, evidence-based suicide prevention practices are integrated […]

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UA Psychology Professor Secures $6.05M Grant to Enhance Sleep Quality in Older Adults with Alzheimer’s and Dementia  

Desktop News | August 2023 On May 1st, Dr. Lynn Snow, a psychology professor, received a clinical trial award (R61/33) from the National Institute of Aging for her ground-breaking research titled “Enhancing Sleep Quality for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia: Pragmatic Trial.”   Dr. Snow has been granted $6.05 million to conduct a novel sleep improvement intervention for nursing home residents aged 50 and above, who are coping with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD).   Over four years, Dr. Snow will […]

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WiPA Secures Grant to Promote Female Participation in STEM

Desktop News | May 2023 Kaitlyn Hemauer, an undergraduate Physics and Math major and the president of the Women in Physics & Astronomy (WiPA) group at The University of Alabama, has secured a prestigious grant from the American Physical Society (APS). The grant provides funding of up to $1,000 and will be used to support the group’s efforts in promoting women’s participation in physics and astronomy.  WiPA’s mission is to foster connections between female physicists at all career stages and […]

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Creating a Shooting Star: UA Professors Receive Grant for New Musical

From the July 2021 Desktop News | Most know Billy Griffin for his time as the lead singer of the legendary Motown group The Miracles, following the footsteps of Smokey Robinson in 1972. Griffin made unmistakable hits like “Love Machine” with the group before embarking on his solo career. But Griffin wanted the story of his illustrious career to be told in a different way, and in Seth Panitch, professor and head of acting programs at The University of Alabama, […]

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UA Professor Awarded NASA Planetary Science Early Career Award

From the June 2020 Desktop News | For Dr. Alain Plattner, a research lab isn’t just a place to make groundbreaking discoveries or work on a singular idea. To him, it’s the perfect place to cultivate a new generation of scientists—a place where his students can explore their own ideas and build off of one another, strengthening their skills as researchers and planetary scientists. His goal is to build a strong planetary science research group, where students from the southeast […]

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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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Taking Up Space

Josh Burford in orange, pink, and purple lighting.

From the Winter 2019 Collegian | Over the past year, Joshua Burford’s life has been a whirlwind. After being featured in newspapers and radio shows around the country, including The New York Times, he was selected as one of NBC’s “Pride50,” a group of 50 veteran and up-and-coming activists in the LGBTQ community in the United States. But for Burford, all of this pales in comparison to expanding his life’s work: saving and creating a space for Southern queer history. […]

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The Buzz

Dr. Jeffrey Lozier poses with a butterfly net.

From the Winter 2019 Collegian | Outside of Dr. Jeffrey Lozier’s tent in the mountains of Sequoia National Park, a fresh layer of snow awaits the group of scientists about to embark on their day’s journey. The below-freezing temperatures and few flakes still falling make it difficult to leave the minimal warmth of his polyester shelter, even in layers of heavy clothes. In this cold climate, it’s difficult to remember that it’s the middle of May. There’s nothing remotely resembling […]

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