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Dr. Katrina Ramonell uses
microarray technology to learn more about plants. She hopes to learn ways to combat crop
diseases, like powdery mildew, by studying the model organism Arabidopsis
thaliana.
Dr. Michael Hardin and a
team of UA students are partnering with SAS, a leading software supplier, in
research to reduce money laundering.
Drs. Mark and Laura
Klinger (depicted in front of a colorized image of a brain scan) use fMRI
technology and computer learning games to better understand brain activity
patterns in people with autism spectrum disorder.
Using colorful satellite
imagery, Dr. Luoheng Han monitors water quality hundreds of miles away from his
UA office.
Biology student Ryan St.
John observes Dr. Eric Roden, a UA biology professor as he demonstrates and
experiment. Dr. Roden researches how
rock-eating bacteria could hold the key to life on mars.
UA is the second
university in the country operating a Sky Arrow airplane investigating global
climate change causes and impacts. Pictured are (left-right, bottom-top) Alex
Maestre, Scott Kirby, Jason Lange, Stan Allen, Dr. Derek Williamson, Ed Dumas,
Donald Jarman, and Steven Brooks.
Michelle Hilgeman (far
right), a first-year graduate student in psychology at UA works with Dr.
Rebecca Allen (far left) on the Legacy
Project that helps families with life-limiting illnesses develop keepsakes such
as a scrapbook, journal or photo album.
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Sally Edwards heads UA's Child
Development Resources (CDR)—offering multi-dimensional assistance to parents
and child care providers in west-central Alabama on the issues of
availability, affordability and quality of child care. |
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Dr. John Higginbotham, Dr.
Alfonza Atkinson and Dr. John Stone meet at Tuskegee University to discuss
Project EXPORT research. |
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Dr. Margaret "Peg"
Lyons conducted a telephone survey of breast cancer patients living in rural
areas. |
Dr. Michael Triche, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering,
researches ways to improve buildings' abilities to survive storms.
Drs. Ion Stancu, Andreas
Piepke and Jerome Busenitz, professors in the College of Arts and Sciences’
department of physics and astronomy, are involved in world-wide efforts to
learn more about sub-atomic particles called neutrinos.
Ashley Dumas, a UA graduate student, directs an archaeological dig at the site
of the original Tabasco factory on Avery Island in Louisiana. She’s shown
holding a photo of the 19th-century building.
Dr. Ian Brown, a professor of anthropology, with artifacts unearthed from Avery
Island, La., where Tabasco brand pepper sauce was first produced in the mid-
to- late 1860s.
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Drs. Guy Caldwell and Tonya
Klein each received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award—part of the
NSF's program to help top performers early in their careers develop as both
educators and researchers. |
Dr. Keith Jacobi, assistant professor of anthropology,
and students Ben Shields and Stacy McGrath look at
X-rays.
Dr. Viola Acoff, associate
professor of metallurgical and
materials engineering, front, Nagy El-Kaddah, professor of metallurgical and
materials engineering, back right, and Mario Arenas work to improve welding
results for the National Science Foundation
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Dr. Stephen Secor studies the
Burmese python. |
The University of Alabama is partnering with NASA and five other universities
in the National Space Science and Technology Center, a $22 million research
facility that opened recently in Huntsville.
Dr. Rodney Bowersox, middle, and students Daina Lee, left, and Zakaria Mahmud
conduct research in a new aerophysics lab.
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Museum summer expeditions
attract young researchers such as 15-year-old Jacob Fields of Raleigh, N.C. |
This image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, during observation time
awarded to Dr. William Keel, a professor of astronomy at UA, shows two galaxies
colliding.
Kathleen Williams (left),
a nurse practitioner and instructor in UA’s Capstone College of Nursing, and
Dr. Jeri Dunkin, a professor of nursing and holder of UA’s Martha Saxon
Memorial Endowed Presidential Chair position, in front of the campus operated Parrish
health center.
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Dr. Philip Johnson (left photo)
and Dr. Andrew Graettinger (right photo, far left) have devised a waterjet
drilling system making it easier to install reinforcing bars into walls to
stabilize buildings. |
Dr. Dick Bradt, a
professor of metallurgical and materials engineering, was chosen as the first
American recipient of the Academic Achievement Award of the Ceramic Society of
Japan. He is pictured here with Flavia Cunha, a graduate student in
metallurgical and materials engineeering
Campus sculpture program
Theatre department in
action
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Dr. Allen Parrish has worked on
a new computer search system to aid law enforcement. |
(Left-Right) Dr. Linda Olivet, UA professor emeritus, and
Dr. Raymond L. Guffin Jr., Stillman College professor, were recently recognized
for teaching excellence by Dr. Carolyn C. Dahl, dean of the UA College of
Continuing Studies.
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Drs. Lucinda Roff and Lou
Burgio are among the leaders in studies on aging. |
C&BA computer facilities provide students with access to state-of-the-art
technology in Bruno Business Library classrooms.
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ALVIN (left), the U.S.'s most
famous submersible, and its support ship ATLANTIS (right) have been frequent
hosts to UA's Dr. Paul Aharon. Aharon has traveled as deep as 7,000 feet
during research dives. |
Dr. Rebecca Allen, assistant professor of psychology, has worked with some 30
terminally ill patients and their families as part of her research at UA.
Dr. Tony Freyer, UA
research professor of history and law, recently edited and published a
collection of essays written by famed civil rights federal district judge Frank
M. Johnson.
Dr. Steve Nagy, professor
of health science in CHES, has been doing research on Alabama adolescent
tobacco use and sexual activity for 14 years.
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Dr. Walter Enders used economic
variables to predict a major terrorist activity a year before 9-11. |
NIH-sponsored research by UA psychology professors uses computer games in
studying the thinking processes of children with autism. One goal of the
research is to develop the first performance-based test to diagnose this
neurological disability.
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Dr. David Oppenheimer hopes to
unlock the secrets of the acorus plant. |
Drs. J.W. Harrell (left) and Dave Nikles research ways to store more data in
less space.
Dr. Stanley Jones conducts research that could assist with the redesign of
bullet-proof glass.
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Drs. Anthony Arduengo (left),
Joseph Thrasher (middle), and Alan Lane work to make fuel cell energy a
reliable alternative to gasoline. |
Dr. Viola Acoff (left) and Cherqueta Claiborn focus on alloys significant in
the aerospace industry.
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Dr. Rex Culp is helping design
improved methods of providing health insurance for children. |
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Dr. John Higginbotham directs
UA's Institute for Rural Health Research. |
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Tarsh Freeman (left) and Drs.
Ron Buta (center) and Gene Byrd believe an oddity surrounding a galaxy may be
a result of it having earlier consumed a smaller galaxy. |
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Among the players in the
"SummerTide" production of Pump Boys and Dinettes are back row (L
to R): Michael Freeman, undergraduate theatre major; Mark Hughes Cobb, UA
alumnus, frequent participant in theatre department productions; Paul Oliver,
UA student; front row (L to R): Stacy Alley, theatre alumna (MFA 2003); Will
Cleckler, theatre alumnus (MFA 2004), Lauren Hauser, undergraduate theatre
major. (photo: Andy Fitch) |
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Dr. Walter Enders (left),
professor of economics and Bidgood Chair of Economics and Finance, and Dr.
Gary Hoover, assistant professor of economics, wrote a research paper
reporting instances of plagiarism in academic economics journals. Their paper
was inspired by having been plagiarized themselves. |
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Dr. Greg Dorr (center),
assistant professor of history and TAHP project director, and two local
history teachers Becky Brown of Brookwood High School (L), and Elliott Harris
of Northridge High School, stand in front of UA's Foster Auditorium, site of
one of the Civil Rights Movement's watershed moments, which will be included
in the program's institute this summer. |
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Dr. John Lochman and Dr. Nicole
Palardy, senior research coordinator in the UA professor's lab, talk with
Toni Ford, counselor at Helena Intermediate School, and Jonathan Rabon, a UA
research assistant. |
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Pictured with Dr. Bob Wells
(right) is Rick Swatloski, a doctoral student in chemistry who will become
CEO of a start-up company based on UA technology that will be incubated in
the AIME facility. He is demonstrating an example of the environmentally benign
technology that will be found in AIME. |
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Visiting researchers are given
a demonstration of physics research involving thin-film processing in the
"clean room" laboratory. |
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Dr. Louis Burgio helps
caregivers of dementia patients. He's currently recruiting caregivers from
the Tuscaloosa and Birmingham areas. |
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Dr. Heather White, UA English
professor, has won the Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism for her
essay "Elizabeth Bishop's Calling. |
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Dr. Jennings Bryant, holder of
the Reagan Chair of Broadcasting and director of the Institute for
Communication Research, is widely published in the area of children's
television and on the effects of television on the American family. |
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Robin Behn, acclaimed poet and
English professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was selected as the
2003 recipient of the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award. |
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Cornelius Carter, associate
professor of theatre and dance in the College of Arts & Sciences, was
named the 2001 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and
Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching. |
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A book authored by Dr. George
C. Rable, the Charles G. Summersell Professor of Southern History in the
College of Arts and Sciences, won the nation's most generous annual American
history award. |
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The National Academy of
Sciences named Dr. Walter Enders, the Lee Bidgood Chair of Economics and
Finance in UA's Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration,
a co-recipient of its 2003 Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the
Prevention of Nuclear War. |