Teenagers typically look for summer jobs at a grocery store or swimming pool, but nine Alabama high school students are spending this summer in a laboratory at The University of Alabama working as interns researching nanoparticles.
The Everywoman Book Club, sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center at The University of Alabama, will meet on Thursday, July 26 at noon at The Globe Restaurant to discuss “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia” by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Dr. Keith Woodbury, professor of mechanical engineering, was recently certified by the U.S. Department of Energy as a Qualified AIRMaster+ Specialist.
One of the world’s most closely monitored experiments recently yielded its initial findings. The results, made public April 11, were made possible, in part, by three University of Alabama scientists who developed one of the primary sets of code used in key portions of the internationally-known effort’s computer analysis.
Five wheelchair basketball players from The University of Alabama will be heading to Brazil for the 2007 Pan Am Games.
Funding from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research will allow University of Alabama and University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers to further study a promising lead in efforts to treat and prevent Parkinson’s disease.
Dr. Joe Benson, a long-time faculty member and administrator at The University of Alabama, has been named interim vice president for research and vice provost at UA.
Dr. Bronwen Lichtenstein, assistant professor in The University of Alabama department of criminal justice, will be honored by the American Sociological Association for her research on health issues and women in the South.
A summer program at The University of Alabama, funded by the National Science Foundation, is helping prepare the next generation of chemists and scientific researchers.
A University of Alabama astronomer has co-developed a new way to characterize galaxy features that is giving scientists additional insight into how galaxies formed and changed over time, according to a paper published in the June 2007 issue of The Astronomical Journal.