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Just Trying to Have School: New Book From UA Professor Explores Desegregation in Mississippi

Dr. Natalie Adams's new book, "Just Trying to Have School," will be published this fall.

  From the June 2019 Desktop News | New College professor Natalie Adams and James Adams of Mississippi State University are awaiting the publication of their new book, Just Trying to Have School: The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi. Grounded in extensive research and hundreds of interviews with students, parents, and educators at every level, the pair piece together a living and breathing recount of Mississippi’s school desegregation— a topic that they say has yet to be explored in desegregation […]

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Carnegie Lists UA among Elite Research Institutions

From the January 2019 Desktop News | For the first time in its history, UA achieved Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity status, formerly known as the R1 category, in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. This is the nation’s highest level of research activity for institutions that grant doctoral degrees. Research funding, research staff, and the number of doctoral graduates are among the criteria used in determining Carnegie classifications. “Achieving Carnegie’s very high research activity classification demonstrates The University […]

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Dixon Selected for UA’s Blackmon-Moody Award

Blackmon-Moody Award Reception for Dr. David DixonBlackmon-Moody Award Reception for Dr. David Dixon

From the January 2019 Desktop News | Dr. David Dixon, the Robert Ramsay Professor of Chemistry at The University of Alabama, is the recipient of the 2018 Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award. He received the award at a recent ceremony at the President’s Mansion. Based on a specific accomplishment that is innovative, creative, useful or captures the imagination, the Frederick Moody Blackmon and Sarah McCorkle Moody Outstanding Professor Award is one of the most prestigious awards given by UA. “Dr. Dixon is a […]

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Professor to Strengthen Digital Dynamics of Dance via NEH Grant

Rebecca Salzer

Rebecca Salzer, an assistant professor of dance and the interim director of the UA Collaborative Arts Research Initiative, recently received a Digital Humanities Advancement grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to lead an innovative effort, improving online access to digital dance resources for education and scholarship.

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UA Research to Study Impact ‘War on Drugs’ Has on Smuggling Routes

Dr. Nicholas Magliocca will lead one of nine national research projects to help disrupt operations of illicit supply networks.

From the October 2018 Desktop News | Researchers at UA are bringing together their expertise in geography, modeling, and criminal activity to better understand how enforcement activity influences drug trafficking in Central America. The project is one of nine recently funded by the National Science Foundation to advance the scientific understanding of how such illicit supply networks function – and how to dismantle them. The new awards support research that combine engineering with computer, physical, and social sciences to address a danger […]

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UA Awarded Grant to Study Communication in Intimate Partnerships

From left: Drs. Josh Pederson, Sonya Pritzker and Jason DeCaro

From the October 2018 Desktop News | Three UA professors have been awarded a grant of more than $300,000 from the National Science Foundation to study the relationship between communication and physiological responses in intimate partnerships. The study is a collaborative work of Drs. Sonya Pritzker and Jason DeCaro, of the department of anthropology, and Dr. Josh Pederson, of the department of communication studies. DeCaro, Pederson, and Pritzker will observe 50 couples by combining nine hours of in-home video observation with moment-to-moment […]

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Applied Mathematicians Win NSF Grants and Host International Conference

Drs. Shibin Dai and Shan Zhao recently received two grants, worth more than $300,000, from the National Science Foundation to fund their research in applied mathematics. The two are serving on the organizing committee for the 2019 international National Science Foundation conference on mathematical molecular bioscience and biophysics.

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