A University of Alabama researcher is embarking on a $5.6 million phase-three, randomized, controlled clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of an innovative treatment that uses a noise-generating device, along with counseling, to alleviate the debilitating effects of tinnitus – that ringing in the ears that drives some people to distraction.
Bradley Byrne, the former chancellor of the Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education, and U.S. Rep. Artur Davis figure to face off in November 2010 for the post of governor of Alabama, but both face significant challenges in the upcoming primaries, a University of Alabama political scientist says.
Conflict in the chilly Arctic Circle among Canada, Russia, Greenland and the United States will heat up beginning in 2010, a University of Alabama political scientist predicts.
After a year of congressional battles over health-care bills, President Barack Obama will become more proactive in sending his own legislation to Congress, a UA political scientist predicts.
Ten years ago, faculty members in The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences carved out a home for exceptional students, broad-minded professors and small, seminar-style classes that dared to cross intellectual boundaries.
Twenty years ago, history beckoned to Dr. David Michelson. Michelson, then 14, was living with his family in Bucharest, Romania. When Romanians took to the streets in protest of the ruling regime in late December, Michelson’s father took him out to see history unfold first-hand.
Dr. John F. Guilmartin Jr., professor of military history at The Ohio State University, will present the fourth annual Friends of History Lecture, “Gunpowder, the Printing Press and the Death of the Middle Ages” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at 205 Gorgas Library at The University of Alabama.
“A Night of Experimental Jazz,” an opportunity to experience freestyle jazz and view ways that music can directly correspond with visual art and design, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in 1093 Shelby Hall at The University of Alabama.
The University of Alabama Rural Health Institute for Clinical and Translational Science was recognized for its work with the Governor’s KidCheck Health Initiative during an earlier ceremony at the State Capitol. The ceremony was hosted by Gov. Bob Riley and the Alabama Power Co.
“Beginning, Being Again,” a multimeda, improvisational performance featuring a collective of artists drawn from The University of Alabama and the central Alabama artistic community, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at the Allen Bales Theatre on the UA campus.