Dr. J. Barry Mason, interim president of The University of Alabama, will be available to meet with media on Monday, July 1, his first official day in office. The media availability will be at 11 a.m. in the President’s Boardroom, 203 Rose Administration building, on the UA campus.
A total of 2,950 students enrolled during the spring 2002 term at The University of Alabama made the Dean’s List with academic records of 3.5 (on a 4.0 scale) or above, or the President’s List with academic records of 4.0, announced Dr. Nancy Barrett, UA provost and vice president for academic affairs.
A student in The University of Alabama’s Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics is assisting the U. S. Air Force in selecting the best steel alloy to use in its next generation of air-launched weapons, through computer modeling of the effects of high-speed penetration on projectiles.
A University of Alabama student and an anthropology professor recently studied the reliability of dogs trained to sniff out dead bodies.
Research now being done at The University of Alabama will go a long way toward taking the politics out of budgeting monies to roadwork projects.
Dr. Beth Macauley, UA assistant professor of communicative disorders, has a black, six-year old Newfoundland retriever mix as a research assistant.
The University Transportation Center for Alabama is one of 10 centers nationwide recently chosen by the U. S. Department of Transportation to receive additional funding under a program to promote transportation education and research. The center will receive $1 million a year for two years.
The Alabama Scholastic Press Association (ASPA) will host “The Long Weekend,” a three-day journalism camp at The University of Alabama July 19-21.
Ken Randall, dean of The University of Alabama School of Law, recently named five UA law professors as 2002-2003 Dean’s Scholars.
Dr. William A. Curry, MD, FACP, dean of the College of Community Health Sciences at The University of Alabama, and associate dean for Tuscaloosa and Rural Programs, University of Alabama School of Medicine, recently received the Laureate Award from the Alabama Chapter of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.