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Tag: Department of Biological Sciences
Doctoral Student from Biological Sciences Selected for Acclaimed NOAA Fellowship
Desktop News | January 2023 Jake Dybiec, a biological sciences doctoral student, has obtained a paid fellowship from the National Estuarine Research Reserve System, an institution under the purview of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The fellowship will cover Dybiec’s rent and living expenses for the next two years, thus relieving him of teaching duties for these years. For 18 months starting from September 2022, Dybiec will be engaging in intensive fieldwork at Weekes Bay in Fairhope, Alabama. […]
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A&S in the News: December 20, 2022 – January 7, 2023
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A&S in the News: November 20-26, 2022
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A&S in the News: September 18-24, 2022
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Small Wetlands the Focus of UA Effort to Boost Resource Management
From the UA News Center | Working with a national laboratory, researchers at The University of Alabama are investigating how the role of the patchwork of small drainage spots across the Southeast is changing as flooding becomes more frequent. The data collected from small, inland wetlands by the research team will be used to enhance ecosystem and climate models the federal government provides to the scientific community as well as organizations involved in water and land management. The work is […]
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A&S in the News: August 14-20, 2022
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A&S in the News: July 24-30, 2022
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A&S in the News: June 12-18, 2022
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UA, Harvard Researchers Identify Potential Parkinson’s Therapeutic
From the UA News Center | Researchers at The University of Alabama were part of a national investigation that identified a new candidate therapeutic target for Parkinson’s Disease, according to recently published results. The discovery is part of a movement within the biological and medical research communities to find promising avenues to treatment after decades of frustration in finding a way to prevent or halt the disease that affects more than 10 million people globally with more than 60,000 Americans diagnosed […]
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