Dr. Scott Parrott’s dissertation on disparagement humor, completed at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, was named the best mass communication dissertation in the United States for 2014.
The Capstone International Academic Programs at The University of Alabama recently received recognition for excellence by CISabroad at the NAFSA: Association of International Educators conference in San Diego.
Lisa McKinney, accounting lecturer at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce, was recognized with the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award from the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants.
The University of Alabama-housed Center for Public Television and Radio won Southeast Regional Emmy Awards for its documentary on Paul “Bear” Bryant and its original short documentaries, “Alabama Detours.”
Dr. Lin Li, assistant professor of metallurgical and materials engineering at The University of Alabama, was one of 35 researchers selected to receive a nationally-competitive grant from Oak Ridge Associated Universities through the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards program.
When someone is truly confused by something, they might say “It’s all Greek to me,” but The University of Alabama Greece Initiative is just the opposite; it’s all about furthering understanding and collaboration between UA and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Dr. Bruce Roche, professor emeritus in The University of Alabama’s department of advertising and public relations, recently received the inaugural Distinguished Advertising Educator Award from the American Advertising Federation at its annual meeting in Boca Raton, Fla.
Dr. William Bomar was recently appointed to executive director of The University of Alabama Museums.
Electronic devices could be made cheaper, smaller and more efficient by reducing the complexity of their internal method of converting and regulating energy, according to a patent by a University of Alabama engineering professor.
University of Alabama researchers identified within animal models an enzyme that links genetic pathways that control aging with the death of dopamine neurons – a clinical hallmark of Parkinson’s disease.