More jobs will be created in Alabama in 2005 in non-agricultural employment, but the textile and apparel industries will once again take it on the chin, University of Alabama economic experts predict.
The University of Alabama’s Dr. Beth Todd, associate professor of mechanical engineering, recently received the 2004 Student Section Advisor by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Todd was honored with the top national award at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress in Anaheim, Calif.
Dr. Stephen J. Thoma, professor and chair of human development and family studies at The University of Alabama’s College of Human Environmental Sciences, recently received national recognition, being named a recipient of the Association for Moral Education’s Kuhmerker Award.
Dr. Robert F. Olin, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Alabama, has been appointed chair of the American Mathematical Society’s Committee on Science Policy.
The 2004 Ian Campbell Medal, the American Geological Institute’s most distinguished award, was presented to Dr. Ernest A. Mancini, professor of geological sciences at The University of Alabama, at an awards ceremony in Denver earlier this month.
The University of Alabama Board of Trustees has conferred the highest honor it gives to a faculty member to Dr. Robin Rogers, professor of chemistry in UA’s College of Arts and Sciences. Rogers has been named a University of Alabama Distinguished Research Professor by the board.
Dr. John R. Wheat, professor of community and rural medicine in The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences, has been named the 2004 Stueland Scholar by the National Farm Medicine Center of the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wis.
Susan D. Carver has been appointed assistant dean of The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce with primary responsibility for the Manderson Graduate School of Business.
A University of Alabama chemistry class will explore different bacteria, including ones that eat sulfur and rock, through funding supplied by a National Science Foundation Award. Dr. Kevin Redding, associate professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently was awarded the NSF CAREER Award and the Robin Hill Award for his groundbreaking photosynthesis research.
Jerry L. Paschal has been named executive director of The University of Alabama Career Center.