Dr. Yuebin Guo, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Alabama, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. CAREER Awards are NSF’s most prestigious awards for top performing scientists and engineers who are early in their careers.
Dr. Louis Burgio, distinguished research professor in psychology and director of the Center for Mental Health and Aging at The University of Alabama, has been selected this year’s recipient of the M. Powell Lawton award, one of the highest awards given nationally for outstanding contributions in the area of mentorship and innovations in applied gerontology.
Dr. James Otteson, chair of the philosophy department at The University of Alabama, will be awarded the seventh in a series of prizes from the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
Dr. Louis Burgio, Distinguished Research Professor in psychology at The University of Alabama, was awarded Fellow status by the Gerontological Society of America.
Chris Waddle, a community journalism veteran fresh from his year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, will head The University of Alabama’s groundbreaking teaching-newspaper program as founding director.
Dr. Marietta Stanton, professor and graduate coordinator at The University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing and an Army Reservist, was recently awarded a U.S. Army Meritorious Service Medal for helping Reservists injured in Iraq receive follow-up care close to their homes.
Dr. Laura Reynolds, assistant professor of consumer sciences in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at The University of Alabama, is serving this summer as a Visiting Scholar for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. Reynolds is working in the Consumer and Community Affairs division.
The Alabama Lawyers Hall of Fame will induct University of Alabama School of Law graduates Albert Farrah and Judge Frank M. Johnson on June 24 in a ceremony to be held in the Alabama Supreme Court Building in Montgomery.
An effort led by a University of Alabama chemist has demonstrated a new way to dissolve and use cellulose – found in the cell walls of trees and other plants – in producing environmentally friendly materials that UA researchers say have potential for the automotive, packaging and textile industries.
The American Association of Critical Care Nurses awarded Dr. Angela Smith Collins, associate professor of nursing, the 2005 National Excellence in Teaching Award.