The University of Alabama is proud of our graduate students’ accomplishments in research, in the classroom, and beyond. Click below to learn more about some of the wonderful things that our students do, and their potential to change the world.
Feb 2019
Congratulations to the following Graduate Student Award winners: The University of Alabama Outstanding Dissertation Award Dr. Briana Whiteside Title: “Octavia E. Butler: History, Culture, and the Future: A Comprehensive Approach” Department of English College of Arts and Sciences Department Chair: Joel Brouwer Advisor/Committee Chair: Trudier Harris The University of Alabama Outstanding Thesis Award Kevin Willson […]
Feb 2019
Former UA MBA Student (and current University of Michigan medical student) Ruth Bishop also chose The University of Alabama for undergraduate study, majoring in Spanish and biology. Bishop was one of the first participants in the STEM path of the University’s MBA program and is a recent Fulbright Scholar, which has helped shape her professional […]
Jan 2019
New Orleans native and current graduate student Alex Ates was recently named the 2019 Graduate Student winner of Southeastern Theatre Conference’s Young Scholar Award. He will present his award-winning research paper “Powerful Contradictions on Charged Stages: Theater Revolutions in the Jim Crow South” at SETC’s 70th Annual Convention in Knoxville, Tennessee. Ates is pursuing an […]
Jan 2019
Kathryn (Kat) Robison hails from Raleigh, North Carolina and is a fourth-year doctoral candidate studying space policy in the political science program. Robison completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Arizona, then received her first master’s degree from Youngstown State University. She received a second master’s degree from The University of Alabama. We caught […]
Jan 2019
By Adam Jones Joshua Nunn had never been outside the United States before graduate school. In fact, he’d never ridden in a plane. That all changed on a visit to Greenland, a journey that included riding a C-130 military plane. That’s a long way from his hometown of Talladega. And, the weather differences during Greenland’s […]
Dec 2018
By Jamon Smith Bob Hines, NASA 2017 astronaut candidate When Bob Hines was 6 years old, he witnessed an event that would forever change the trajectory of his life: the launch of NASA’s first space shuttle, the STS-1, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 12, 1981. As the shuttle cleared the tower propelled by a thick blast […]
Dec 2018
By Jamon Smith Shelby Baron has never experienced what it’s like to walk, but she is quite familiar with what it’s like to win big. Baron, a 23-year-old graduate student studying speech pathology at The University of Alabama, has been a member of the Team USA Paralympic Wheelchair Tennis Team since 2010. She is […]
Nov 2018
“As an artist, anthropologist, and book lover, I have long been fascinated by Mexico’s paper and bookmaking traditions. So when I began UA’s Book Arts MFA program last year, I jumped at the chance to learn more through a summer research trip to Mexico, supported by the School of Library and Information Studies and the […]
Apr 2018
Congratulations to our 2018 Graduate Student Award recipients — Blake Ball, Gregory Brenn, Mohamed Mulla, Dinuke Munasinghe, Amy Williamson, Kirstin Bone and Jenna Graham. We celebrate your achievements!
Jul 2017
“I want to explore” is a phrase Jamileh Beik Mohammadi uses often when speaking of her career and work. Still, her decision to travel from her home in Iran to The University of Alabama for her doctoral studies in physics was not easy for her, or her family. Before she enrolled at Alabama in 2012, […]
