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UA Chemist’s Work in Understanding New Materials Gets Boost

January 10, 2018

From the January 2018 Desktop News | Dr. Jared Allred, assistant professor of chemistry at The University of Alabama, was recently awarded a grant from the 2017 Early Career Research Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy to investigate properties of novel metal compounds and develop a new way to analyze certain aspects of these materials. “Anytime you are working on new materials, you need to be able to understand the physics of what’s going on – the interactions,” Allred […]

An Insomnia Label More Harmful Than Poor Sleep

January 10, 2018

From the January 2018 Desktop News | People who worry about poor sleep have more emotional and physical problems during the day than those who do not worry, regardless of how well either sleep, according to research conducted at The University of Alabama. In a review of more than a dozen sleep studies going back more than 20 years, Dr. Kenneth Lichstein, UA professor of psychology, defines something he calls insomnia identity, a person’s conviction of having poor sleep. This belief […]

Faculty Awarded NOAA Grant to Improve Tornado Warnings for Deaf

January 9, 2018

From the January 2018 Desktop News | The University of Alabama’s Drs. Jason C. Senkbeil and Darrin Griffin have been awarded a grant of $251,850 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to study how tornado warnings could be improved in their accessibility and comprehension by members of the Deaf, Blind, and Deaf-Blind communities. The grant will enable this team to build and test a system whereby Deaf people can view a local weather broadcast in a split-screen format. Half of the […]

UA Scientist Helps Show How Earth Stops Tiny Particles in Their Tracks

January 9, 2018

From the January 2018 Desktop News | An international group of researchers, including several from The University of Alabama, measured the interaction between tiny particles, called neutrinos, that travel the cosmos and Earth. The findings, which carry implications for our understanding of physics and Earth’s core, were published in the journal Nature. Neutrinos are abundant subatomic particles famous for passing through anything and everything, rarely interacting with matter. About 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body every second. Now, scientists have demonstrated […]

UA Political Science Professors Publish Paper on Gender Bias in Supreme Court

November 16, 2017

From the November 2017 Desktop News | Drs. Dana Patton and Joseph Smith, both associate professors with The University of Alabama’s Department of Political Science, recently published their paper “Lawyer, Interrupted: Gender Bias in Oral Arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court” in the Journal of Law and Courts. The paper discusses the disparities in how male and female lawyers are treated while arguing in front of the Supreme Court. Patton originally noticed the difference while playing a transcript of oral arguments […]

UA Museums Receive Competitive Grant

November 16, 2017

From the November 2017 Desktop News | Drs. John Abbott and Dana Ehret of UA Museums have been awarded $23,000 from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The grant, from the highly competitive “Museums for America” program, will allow them to move forward with the rehousing and digitizing of the UA Museums’ invertebrate paleontological collection. “Many of these specimens are still housed in the containers they were originally collected in over 100 years ago (such as cigar boxes) and […]

Psychology Professor Earns National Early Career Award

October 9, 2017

From the October 2017 Desktop News | The Gerontological Society of America has recognized University of Alabama psychology professor Dr. Giyeon Kim for her research on mental health disparities between people of different races and ethnicities. The GSA, the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging, recently honored Kim with the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology. The honor, given annually, recognizes outstanding early career contributions in behavioral and social gerontology. […]

Husband and Wife Transform Book about Little-Known Civil Rights Leader

October 9, 2017

From the October 2017 Desktop News | In 2009, UA history professor Dr. David Beito and wife Dr. Linda Royster Beito, associate dean of Arts and Sciences at Stillman College, released a book called “Black Maverick,” a biography of black civil rights pioneer Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard, called T.R.M. Howard for short. The book received positive reviews, but Howard’s story remained confined to a 304-page book that some might never open. For the Beitos, that was not enough. The story of […]

Two Professors Earn Fulbrights for International Research

September 11, 2017

From the September 2017 Desktop News | Two University of Alabama professors will pursue work and research through the U.S. Fulbright Scholars Program in 2017 and 2018. Dr. Samantha Hansen, associate professor of geological sciences, will be in Greece for the fall semester, working at the National Observatory of Athens. She will combine seismic data from a countrywide seismograph network with her tomographic imaging technique—producing images through a ground-penetrating wave—to develop models for the Hellenic Subduction Zone. The Hellenic Subduction Zone is […]

Historian Receives Grant for Digital Slavery Project

September 11, 2017

From the September 2017 Desktop News | Can you imagine opening a newspaper and seeing an advertisement for a runaway slave? In today’s world, it’s hard to fathom what it must have been like to live in a time when slavery was accepted. Dr. Joshua Rothman, a professor of history and chair of the Department of History, is on a mission to make understanding that world—and the many things we can learn from it—a lot easier. Rothman is a part of a […]