UA Undergraduate Student Earns Parkinson’s Research Fellowship
A senior microbiology major at The University of Alabama has been awarded a summer fellowship by the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation and American Parkinson Disease Association.
Suspending Belief: Virtual Reality Lab Provides Coping, Research Opportunities
In the spring of 2013, The University of Alabama School of Social Work installed a virtual reality lab in Farrah Hall, becoming the third university in the country to have a social work VR lab. As a research tool, the Virtual Reality lab will allow researchers to expose participants to stimuli that otherwise may be
UA Trustees Establish Sport Technology Research Center
The University of Alabama will be home to a new center whose researchers will study the intersection of sports and technology, involving Crimson Tide athletics in an innovative approach to improve training and performance of athletes across the world.
UA’s Plank Center Announces Selections for Educator Fellowship Program
The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations at The University of Alabama has announced the seventh class for its Fellowship for Educators program. Nine educators will have the opportunity to enhance their skills, as they will be placed in the offices of sponsoring organizations this summer.
Spin-off Company to Market, Sell UA-Developed Product
The University of Alabama licensed the technology behind a collapsible sideline tent designed to give better medical care to athletes to a spin-off company that will develop, market, manufacture and distribute the tent.
UA Researchers Receive NSF Grant to Study Everglades’ Greenhouse Gases
Two University of Alabama researchers, along with their collaborators, recently received $834,000 from the National Science Foundation to continue their study of greenhouse gases in the Everglades.
UA Psychology Professor Garners NIH Research Award
Dr. Ian McDonough, assistant professor of psychology at The University of Alabama, has been named a winner of the Matilda White Riley Early Stage Investigator Honors, a paper competition of the National Institutes of Health.
UA Researchers Expand Opportunities with Upgraded Atom Probe Technology
A new, powerful microscope recently installed at The University of Alabama will expand exploration into nanotechnology and geological sciences, helping research into fundamental science and spurring economic development.
UA Research Could Be Used to Counter Global Warming
Science Advances, one of the world’s top, multidisciplinary, highly selective, online-only research journals, has published an article about how much carbon dioxide – the primary greenhouse gas that causes global warming – in the atmosphere can be reduced by natural regrowth of secondary forests in the Latin America neotropics. A total 60 scientists from throughout Latin America and the U.S. wrote the research article, titled “Carbon Sequestration Potential of Second-Growth Forest Regeneration in the Latin American Tropics.” Two of the authors are geography professors from The University of Alabama’s Spatial Ecology and Conservation Lab. Dr. Eben Broadbent, an assistant professor who is listed as second author on the article – a ranking system showing the amount of work each author contributes – and Dr. Angelica Almeyda Zambrano, is an adjunct professor who is listed as fifth author.
2 UA Students Recognized at Honors Research Conference
Two students from The University of Alabama Honors College earned awards at the 15th annual University of Alabama System’s Honors Research Conference, held on the University of Alabama Huntsville campus in April.