Dr. Yingyan Lou, assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, was awarded the Pikarsky Award for outstanding doctoral dissertation in science and technology by the Council of University Transportation Centers.
Recipients of the 2010 Premier Awards — the top individual honors for scholarship, leadership and service at The University of Alabama — were announced by UA President Robert E. Witt at a recent recognition ceremony held in Tuscaloosa.
A University of Alabama geoscientist, whose research focuses on developing and sharing environmentally feasible ways of increasing oil and natural gas supplies, is this year’s winner of the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center is hosting the LUNAFEST Lecture Series and Film Festival with events March 1-9.
The first Alabama Real Estate Confidence Index, compiled by the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama, reports a slight negative bias in real estate for the first quarter of 2010.
The University of Alabama Capstone International Center will celebrate the 24th annual Sakura Festival with Tuscaloosa’s “Matsuri in the Mall” on Saturday, Feb.27, and a host of cultural activities throughout March.
Dr. Nitin Chopra, assistant professor of metallurgical and materials engineering at The University of Alabama, was recently selected for the 2010 TMS Electronic, Magnetic and Photonic Materials Division Young Leader Professional Development Award.
Geri Stone, associate director of professional development and conference services in The University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies, recently received the Wayne Whelan Scholarship from the Association for Continuing Higher Education Inc.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center and University Recreation are presenting an exhibit of photographs called “What Makes You Beautiful: Loving Yourself Inside & Out” in the Ferguson Center Art Gallery through Feb. 28.
Dr. Xiaoyan Hong, an associate professor of computer science at The University of Alabama, has been selected for one of 33 academic and industry teams to be funded by the National Science Foundation to advance research in network science and engineering in an effort known as GENI.