Fruit Flies May Help Understand How Some Species Eat Poison
Out of hundreds of species of fruit flies, a handful can eat toxic mushrooms, and understanding why and how they pull this off could answer broader questions about evolution and adaptation.
Colleges & Schools
UA Researchers Discuss Insurance Rates After Hurricanes
UA’s Paul R. Jones Gallery Presents Art Exhibit on Surrealism, Fantasy
The University of Alabama’s Paul R. Jones Gallery is exhibiting “Lucid Dreaming: Surrealism and Fantasy in the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art.” Free to the public, the exhibit is open now through Oct. 27 at the Paul R. Jones Gallery in downtown Tuscaloosa.
Albright Named to Governor’s Council on Opioid Overdoses, Addiction
Gov. Kay Ivey has appointed Dr. David L. Albright, associate professor and Hill Crest Foundation Endowed Chair in Mental Health in The University of Alabama School of Social Work, to serve on the Alabama Opioid Overdose and Addiction Council.
NSF Grant Funds Engineering Preparatory Class, Scholarships
The University of Alabama College of Engineering is using a National Science Foundation grant to start three preparatory classes and a scholarship fund in an effort to address student retention.
Anthropologist to Discuss Skin Evolution in ALLELE Lecture Series at UA
The University of Alabama’s ALLELE Lecture series will host Dr. Nina G. Jablonski on Friday, Sept. 15 for her lecture “Human Skin Color is an Evolutionary Adaptation, not a Racial Characteristic.”
UA Study Examines Fate of Firms with Initial Public Offerings in 1996
Twenty years after the largest number of initial public offerings in one year took place, a new study from The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce explores what happened to the IPO companies.
RISE Center Hosts BUY for RISE Sept. 22, 23
The RISE Center hosts its second largest fundraiser Sept. 22 and 23.
Art That Impacts the Human Condition
University of Alabama junior art major Camille Mancuso will soon begin a new creative direction.
It’s Magnetic
“I want to explore” is a phrase Jamileh Beik Mohammadi uses often when speaking of her career and work. Still, her decision to travel from her home in Iran to The University of Alabama for her doctoral studies in physics was not easy for her, or her family.