Dr. Douglas Gibler, assistant professor of political science in The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences, has received a prestigious Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant for research into understanding global conflict.
Sculpture, paintings, drawings and other artworks that show off the vivid imaginations of The University of Alabama’s art faculty are on display at the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art (http://art.ua.edu/moody.html).
Discovery of two new components within a puzzling spiral galaxy confirm it must have a pair of arms winding in the opposite direction from most galaxies, according to results being presented today to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas. Presenting the results are Drs. Gene Byrd and Ron Buta, from The University of Alabama; Tarsh Freeman, Bevill Community College; and Dr. Sethanne Howard, retired from the U.S. Naval Observatory.
A University of Alabama professor is pushing for deeper cultural and economic ties between the state and the Federal Republic of Germany – and he now holds a key position from which he can push for stronger links and deeper understanding.
Armchair astronomers using the galaxyzoo.org Web site have identified more than 500 overlapping galaxies in the local Universe when astronomers had previously only known of 20 such systems.
With the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses approaching, faculty members at The University of Alabama are ready to help you with insights into the political process as the deeply unsettled field of candidates vie to succeed President George W. Bush.
A “caregiving crisis” is likely to occur in 2008, says Dr. Lucinda Lee Roff, professor of social work at The University of Alabama.
The Alabama housing market will start 2008 with about 43,000 houses up for sale – 8,000 more than last year, says Grayson Glaze, executive director of the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama.
Water, or more precisely the lack of it, will be on everyone’s mind in 2008, predicts a University of Alabama climatologist.
The 2008 Alabama legislative session promises to be fraught with partisan bickering, a University of Alabama political scientist predicts.