Mexican immigrants living in a rural Mississippi county and who are highly devoted to the Virgin of Guadalupe coped better with immigration-related stress than those less devoted to the religious, Mexican symbol, according to a study by anthropologists at The University of Alabama.
A UA researcher examines the role of racial identity and acculturation on birth weight of black infants.
Members of The University of Alabama faculty will be honored for their research contributions at the upcoming Faculty Research Day.
Dr. Alan Blum, Gerald Leon Wallace Endowed Chair in Family Medicine at the UA College of Community Health Sciences, discusses why physicians need to be more active and creative in the clinic, classroom and community in smoking prevention and cessation.
Neuroscientist and professor Dr. Michael Anderson will speak about the evolution of the brain, cognition and how our bodies relate to the way we think at the next Alabama Lectures on Life’s Evolution, or ALLELE, series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, in the North Lawn Hall auditorium on The University of Alabama campus.
When a University of Alabama football player with an injured arm instinctively stiff-armed a defender in the 2015 Southeastern Conference Championship Game, he was able to do so thanks to doctors, athletic trainers, engineering students, professors and a 3-D printer.
For the boys at the Alabama Department of Youth Services’ Vacca Campus in Birmingham, they’re intrigued by the science behind their own behaviors.
In an education lab in the Tom Barnes Education Building on the Bryce Campus at The University of Alabama, Dr. Firat Soylu prepares an electroencephalography cap to be worn by a test participant.
University of Alabama researchers are recruiting for a 10-week study to see how watermelon affects blood vessel function.