As hospitals move toward family-centered care, there is a greater need to evaluate the response of the whole family, not just the patient. By exploring the relationships between hospitalized children’s anxiety levels and mothers’ coping skills, a University of Alabama researcher hoped to learn more about how the health-care team can promote coping strategies in patients and families.
No longer a future technology, 3-D printing is becoming more commonplace in manufacturing and business, prompting The University of Alabama College of Engineering to open a lab that encourages creativity among faculty and students.
Dr. Mary Stone, director of the Culverhouse School of Accountancy at The University of Alabama, has been awarded the Federation of Schools of Accountancy (FSA)/Joseph A. Silvoso Faculty Merit Award for 2012.
The University of Alabama’s Sonic Frontiers concert series will present a free concert by composer-performers Holland Hopson and Justin Peake at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7, in the Bama Theatre’s Greensboro Room, 600 Greensboro Ave. in Tuscaloosa.
The University of Alabama’s restaurant, hospitality and meetings management program will host Dana Garmany, chairman and chief executive officer of Troon, as part of the Shila Bowron Leadership Lecture Series March 13.
A cultural critic in The Jewish Daily Forward has named “N18 (Complete),” a collection of poems by Hank Lazer, as one of five favorite works of poetry in 2012.
The transition from nursing school to actual practice is a difficult one for many new nurses. In an effort to help smooth that transition, DCH Regional Medical Center partnered with UA’s Capstone College of Nursing to establish a nurse residency program at the hospital.
Adventurous percussion trio Meridian will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, in the Moody Music Building recital hall on The University of Alabama campus. UA’s Sonic Frontiers concert series is sponsoring the concert.
The University of Alabama and University Libraries invite the public to hear a lecture by Dr. Michael Mendle, professor of history at UA, titled “Absolutely the Most Important Thing You Know Nothing About: Shorthand and Civilization in 17th Century England.” The lecture will take place at 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, in 205 Gorgas Library. The lecture is free; refreshments will be served.
For one University of Alabama professor, it is all about connecting. For more than three decades, Dr. Barrie Jo Price has worked to bring those in the international community closer together through the use of technology.