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Graduate Community News 2007


     
12/21/2007   UA’s Culverhouse School of Accountancy Again Ranked in Top 25  
12/20/2007   UA Astronomer Triggers Public’s Online Search for Overlapping Galaxies
11/13/2007   UA Signs Cooperative Agreement with Ocean University China
11/01/2007   UA Anthropology Students Awarded Prestigious NSF Dissertation Grants
10/30/2007   Acoustic Sensor to be Developed Using UA’s New Hemi-Anechoic Chamber
10/24/2007   UA Doctoral Student Chosen to Participate in Folger Institute Archives Program
10/18/2007   Twelve Graduate Students Selected for ‘Bridge to the Doctorate’ Program at UA
10/11/2007   UA Graduate School Again Ranked in Top Ten in Three Categories
10/11/2007   UA Business School Students Visit the Oracle of Omaha
10/10/2007   Top Teaching Award Winners Recognized at UA
09/26/2007   Science of Ultra-Small Poised to Bring Gigantic Gains; UA Positions Itself as Nanotechnology Leader
09/21/2007   American Studies Professor at UA Receives Top Honor
09/11/2007   UA to Host Graduate School Preview Day
09/04/2007   UA Plank Center Awards More Than $17,000 in PR Leadership Grants
08/17/2007   Rosalynn Carter Institute Funds UA Professor’s Caregiver Training Program in Middle Alabama
08/17/2007   UA Ranked in Top 10 Percent by U.S. News
     
08/13/2007   Wenan Fei received the 2007 Ernst Meyer Prize:

Wenan Fei, who received his doctoral degree in economics in May from the University of Alabama, received the prestigious 2007 Ernst Meyer Prize from the Geneva Association for the best dissertation in risk management and insurance.
Past winners include Christian Gollier, professor of economics at the University of Toulouse, and Amy Finkelstein, associate professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Left to right: Patrick Liedtke (Head of the Geneva Association that sponsors the award), Wenan Fei (Award winner, PhD 2006), Harris Schlesinger (University of Alabama Finance Professor), at the annual conference of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists, in Cologne, Germany, September 18, 2007
The Geneva Association was established to promote economic research in the sector of risk and insurance. The prize is presented for research work, usually in the form of a doctoral thesis, which makes a significant and original contribution to the study of risk and insurance economics.
08/02/2007   Japanese Institute Honors UA MINT Center Director for Breakthrough
08/01/2007   UA Scientist Recognized for Role in Shipwreck Analysis
07/31/2007   UA Announces Research and Licensing Agreement With QRxPharma
07/30/2007   UA Doctoral Student Wins Prestigious Insurance Prize
07/26/2007   Space Pioneers, Alabama Astronauts, Campus Experts to Share Ideas at UA’s Blackburn Symposium Aug. 25
07/12/2007   Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards UA, UAB Researchers Grant for Collaborative Effort Against Parkinson's
07/10/2007   UA Professor to Receive National Award for Research on Women in the South
07/09/2007   UA Astronomer Co-Develops New Method to Describe Galaxy Features
06/29/2007   UA Psychology Faculty Productivity Ranked 25th in Nation
06/29/2007   Psychology Graduate Student at UA Receives Prestigious NSF Fellowship
06/27/2007   UA’s Schnee Appointed to AICPA Tax Shelter Task Force
06/25/2007   UA’s Houston to Chair ABO Section of American Accounting Association
05/07/2007   Chemistry Professor One of Three in Nation to Receive Fulbright to City of Light
05/03/2007   UA Receives $100,000 Grant from Bernard Osher Foundation
05/02/2007   UA’s Rabel Receives Alabama Finance Association Outstanding Faculty Award
04/20/2007   Management Professor Ron Dulek Selected to Deliver UA’s First ‘Last Lecture’
04/11/2007   UA Physicists Play Key Role in Fermilab Experiment Resolving Long-Standing Neutrino Question
03/23/2007   Schlesinger Named Winner of UA’s Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award
03/19/2007   UA Students Take Top Honors in Theatre Competition
03/08/2007   UA Professor Appointed to ASME Fellow
03/06/2007   UA Lab Provides Insight into Suspected Parkinson’s Trigger
02/27/2007   UA’s Mary Stone Named American Accounting Association’s 2007 Outstanding Educator
02/23/2007   UA Graduate School Presents ‘Last Lecture Series’
02/02/2007   UA Mass Communication Doctoral Faculty Ranked Sixth in Nation
01/31/2007   UA Professor Appointed as IEEE’s Corporate Integrity Contact Person
01/22/2007   Graduate Research and Thesis Conference to be Held at UA
01/12/2007   Discover, Archaeology Magazine Ranks Discovery by UA Researcher Among Top Findings of 2006
01/11/2007   UA History Professor to Research Vatican Secret Archives and Pope’s Private Library
     
     
     

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