UA Students to Present Research Findings at National Conference
Eleven University of Alabama undergraduate students will present their research findings April 3-5 at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
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Three UA Teams Win Culverhouse Business Plan Competition with Innovative Ideas
Three University of Alabama student teams are on their way to starting their own businesses after winning the Culverhouse College of Commerce’s Edward K. Aldag Jr., Business Plan Competition.
The Smallest Victims
Standard interview approaches used in child abuse cases too often result in incomplete pictures, says a University of Alabama social work professor researching the typical practices taken with young victims.
UA Researchers to Map West Alabama Food Insecurity
Two researchers in The University of Alabama’s journalism department were awarded $8,000 from the Knight Foundation and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication to study food insecurity in West Alabama.
UA Names Outstanding Graduate Student Awards for 2014
The University of Alabama Graduate School has announced the recipients of the 2014 Outstanding Graduate Student awards. The awards will be presented during UA Honors Week, scheduled for Monday, March 31, to Friday, April 4.
UA Researcher Finds Gender Gap in Olympic Coverage is Narrowing
A University of Alabama researcher was part of a team who found that, in the combined 18 nights of NBC’s Sochi Olympic broadcast, male athletes received the plurality of the network’s primetime coverage, but not nearly to the extent of past Winter Olympic analyses.
UA Sports Communication Symposium Set for Feb. 28
The Alabama Program in Sports Communication’s second annual symposium will be Feb. 28 at The University of Alabama.
Biodiversity Experts Head to UA for Edward O. Wilson Symposium
International biodiversity experts will join Dr. Edward O. Wilson, a University of Alabama alumnus, for research presentations and forums on the state and future of biodiversity April 22-24.
January’s Winter Storm Increased Chances of Deadly Crashes in State’s Rural Areas, According to UA CAPS
Not surprisingly, vehicle crashes increased during the winter storm the last week of January in Alabama, but the iced roads shifted the risk of fatal crashes to rural roads away from the clogged roadways in the state’s urban metro areas, according to an analysis of crash data by researchers at The University of Alabama.
Back to Her Roots
A University of Alabama researcher travels back to her hometown seeking to give rural, Southern, black women a stronger voice in scholarly research.