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UA Professor Says Seeing Candy Causes Narrowed Focus

UA Professor Says Seeing Candy Causes Narrowed Focus

Halloween chocolate is everywhere: your office, home, prominent displays in grocery stores. Athough the adverse physical effects of indulging in chocolate are known before unwrapping the first of many pieces, the sight of Halloween candy also has psychological effects.

UA Students to Demonstrate Medieval Architecture Techniques

UA Students to Demonstrate Medieval Architecture Techniques

In a demonstration of how art and mathematics work together, University of Alabama art history students will show how the scale plan of the Cathedral of Amiens was laid out using simple tools, such as wooden mallets, stakes, string and a mason’s square, on the Quad from 9 a.m. to noon Friday, Nov. 4.

Evolutionary Biologist to Speak about Race at UA ALLELE Lecture

Dr. Joseph Graves Jr., an evolutionary biologist and geneticist, will speak about race Nov. 10 as a part of the Alabama Lectures on Life’s Evolution, or ALLELE, seminar series.

7 Frightful Things at UA (with an Educational Purpose)

7 Frightful Things at UA (with an Educational Purpose)

1. Haunting music In the Moody Music Building Concert Hall, Dr. Faythe Freese sits at UA’s famous Holtkamp pipe organ and plays a few bars. Recognize the composition? For many of us, this music brings to mind supernatural movie villains who have sent chills down the spines of audiences since the days of silent film. But

“This is How We Roll”

“This is How We Roll”

  The University of Alabama Adapted Athletics Program celebrated the debut of “This is How We Roll,” a documentary series about its men’s and women’s basketball teams, during a red carpet premiere on Oct. 26 at the Bama Theatre.

UA Psychology Professor: Children Benefit from Halloween Activities

UA Psychology Professor: Children Benefit from Halloween Activities

Whether or not you embrace the pageantry of Halloween, the parent-child activities associated with the holiday incorporate core developmental exercises for children, according to a psychology professor at The University of Alabama.

The Not-So-Spooky, Yet Still Sort-of-Spooky, History of Halloween

The Not-So-Spooky, Yet Still Sort-of-Spooky, History of Halloween

Warty-nosed witches, ghouls, goblins, Transformers, princesses and clowns stalking neighborhood streets upon nightfall for the sweet taste of candy wasn’t always what Halloween was about.

Cuban News Anchor to Present Lecture at UA

Cuban news anchor Cristina Escobar will visit The University of Alabama on Wednesday, Nov. 2, to talk about the current climate of Cuban journalism and how it is evolving with the developing relationship between the United States and Cuba.

Bridging the Gap

Bridging the Gap

Pass under one bridge on the interstate, and you might as well have seen them all. Right? Not so fast. Researchers at The University of Alabama are using a one-of-a-kind lab in the quest for longer, more durable bridges.

UA Adapted Athletics to Celebrate Documentary of 2014-15 Teams

UA Adapted Athletics to Celebrate Documentary of 2014-15 Teams

The University of Alabama Adapted Athletics program will celebrate the debut of “This is How We Roll,” a documentary series about its men’s and women’s basketball teams, during a red carpet premiere Wednesday, Oct. 26, at the Bama Theatre.