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| "The joint Faculty Development Program at the University of Alabama can be characterized by many descriptors. It is a partnership of the fines kind in that there are mutual benefits for all collaborators: the faculty person, the faculty member's home university, and The University of Alabama. It is a grand window of opportunity for all associated to gain, to elevate and to move forward. Personally, it has placed within my grasp a long held goal to attain the doctoral degree in my instructional field. The professional development that the joint program has afforded me has greatly enhanced my teaching abilities for my faculty position at Alabama A&M University. My excellent learning experience in the UA. Department of Political Science have equipped me with greater skills and intellectual tools for promoting community service, learning, and research that can produce life changes for the people of Alabama." |
Constance Wilson Ph.D. Student in Political Science, UA Joint Faculty Development Fellow and Assistant Professor and Director for the Center of Urban and Rural Research Alabama A&M University.
| "As an undergraduate student, I decided to study clinical psychology with the goal of pursuing a career in which I would be both an active researcher and clinician. I find people to be fascinating, and I enjoy the challenge of helping someone to live a ore fulfilling life. The excellent graduate training I have received in the Department of Psychology has provided a strong foundation for becoming both a scientist and a practitioner of psychology. At the University of Alabama, I have received training in a wide variety of settings not available in other graduate programs. The Graduate Council Dissertation Fellowship provided support for my dissertation project, a comparison of the effectiveness of two self-help treatments for depression. In addition to examining the active ingredients of the treatments. I also hope to identify characteristics in individuals that predict success in self-help treatments. The fellowship has also allowed me to become involved with several other research projects in my department; these studies have been published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology." |
Nancy McKendree-Smigh Ph.D.. Student in Psychology, UA Graduate Council Dissertation Fellow.
| "My four years in the Ph.D. program in geology at The University of Alabama have been a great joy, and have allowed me to complete one of my life-long goals: to conduct research on Komatite volcanology. I could not have hoped to receive a better graduate experience than I experienced at The University of Alabama. The primary focus of my work has been to write a C computer program which is run on the Department's SUN SparcStation, that contains an analytical/numerical model and simulates the evolution of ancient komatite lava flows during emplacement. The Graduate council Dissertation Fellowship has enabled me to present my research at several national and international meetings, including meetings of the Geological Society of America, The American Geophysical Union, the Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Chapman Conference on Long Lava Flows, and the Western pacific Geophysics Meeting." |
David Williams Ph.D. Student in Geology, UA Graduate Council Dissertation Fellow
| "After receiving my master's degree at Moscow State University, I applied to enter the Ph.D. program at the University of Alabama because the Department of Physics has a strong research group in High Energy Theory. The Graduate Council Dissertation Fellowship has provided support for my doctoral dissertation on Lie-Poisson and quantum symmetries. I have written seven papers on which my dissertation is based, with publications in the International Journal of Modern Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Physical Review D. and Journal of Physic A. Because I believe that today's physicist must be an expert in computer science, I am simultaneously completing a master's degree in UA's Department of Computer Science" |
Igor Yakushin Ph.D. Student in Physics, UA Graduate Council Dissertation Fellow