Dr. Katrina Ramonell uses microarray technology to learn
more about plants. She hopes to learn ways to combat
crop diseases, like powdery mildew, by studying the
model organism Arabidopsis thaliana.
Dr. Michael Hardin and a team of UA students are
partnering with SAS, a leading software supplier, in
research to reduce money laundering.
Drs. Mark and Laura Klinger (depicted in front of a
colorized image of a brain scan) use fMRI technology and
computer learning games to better understand brain
activity patterns in people with autism spectrum disorder.
Using colorful satellite imagery, Dr. Luoheng Han monitors
water quality hundreds of miles away from his UA office.
Biology student Ryan St. John observes Dr. Eric Roden, a
UA biology professor as he demonstrates and experiment.
Dr. Roden researches how rock-eating bacteria could hold
the key to life on mars.
UA is the second university in the country operating a Sky
Arrow airplane investigating global climate change causes
and impacts. Pictured are (left-right, bottom-top) Alex
Maestre, Scott Kirby, Jason Lange, Stan Allen, Dr. Derek
Williamson, Ed Dumas, Donald Jarman, and Steven
Brooks.
Michelle Hilgeman (far right), a first-year graduate
student in psychology at UA works with Dr. Rebecca Allen
(far left) on the Legacy Project that helps families with
life-limiting illnesses develop keepsakes such as a
scrapbook, journal or photo album.
Sally Edwards heads UA's Child Development Resources
(CDR)—offering multi-dimensional assistance to parents
and child care providers in west-central Alabama on the
issues of availability, affordability and quality of child care.
Dr. John Higginbotham, Dr. Alfonza Atkinson and Dr. John
Stone meet at Tuskegee University to discuss Project
EXPORT research.
Dr. Margaret "Peg" Lyons conducted a telephone survey of
breast cancer patients living in rural areas.
Dr. Michael Triche, associate professor of civil and
environmental engineering, researches ways to
improve buildings' abilities to survive storms.
Drs. Ion Stancu, Andreas Piepke and Jerome
Busenitz, professors in the College of Arts and
Sciences’ department of physics and astronomy, are
involved in world-wide efforts to learn more about
sub-atomic particles called neutrinos.
Ashley Dumas, a UA graduate student, directs an
archaeological dig at the site of the original Tabasco
factory on Avery Island in Louisiana. She’s shown holding
a photo of the 19th-century building.
Dr. Ian Brown, a professor of anthropology, with artifacts
unearthed from Avery Island, La., where Tabasco brand
pepper sauce was first produced in the mid- to- late
1860s.
Drs. Guy Caldwell and Tonya Klein each received a National Science
Foundation CAREER Award—part of the NSF's program to help top
performers early in their careers develop as both educators and
researchers.
Dr. Keith Jacobi, assistant professor of anthropology,
and students Ben Shields and Stacy McGrath look at
X-rays.
Dr. Viola Acoff, associate professor of metallurgical and
materials engineering, front, Nagy El-Kaddah, professor
of metallurgical and materials engineering, back right,
and Mario Arenas work to improve welding results for the
National Science Foundation
Dr. Stephen Secor studies the Burmese python.
The University of Alabama is partnering with NASA and
five other universities in the National Space Science and
Technology Center, a $22 million research facility that
opened recently in Huntsville.
Dr. Rodney Bowersox, middle, and students Daina Lee,
left, and Zakaria Mahmud conduct research in a new
aerophysics lab.
Museum summer expeditions attract young researchers such as 15-yearold Jacob Fields of Raleigh, N.C.
This image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope,
during observation time awarded to Dr. William Keel, a
professor of astronomy at UA, shows two galaxies
colliding.
Kathleen Williams (left), a nurse practitioner and
instructor in UA’s Capstone College of Nursing, and Dr.
Jeri Dunkin, a professor of nursing and holder of UA’s
Martha Saxon Memorial Endowed Presidential Chair
position, in front of the campus operated Parrish health
center.
Dr. Philip Johnson (left photo) and Dr. Andrew Graettinger (right photo,
far left) have devised a waterjet drilling system making it easier to
install reinforcing bars into walls to stabilize buildings.
Dr. Dick Bradt, a professor of metallurgical and materials
engineering, was chosen as the first American recipient of
the Academic Achievement Award of the Ceramic Society
of Japan. He is pictured here with Flavia Cunha, a
graduate student in metallurgical and materials
engineeering
Campus sculpture program
Theatre department in action
Dr. Allen Parrish has worked on a new computer search system to
aid law enforcement.
(Left-Right) Dr. Linda Olivet, UA professor emeritus, and
Dr. Raymond L. Guffin Jr., Stillman College professor, were
recently recognized for teaching excellence by Dr. Carolyn
C. Dahl, dean of the UA College of Continuing Studies.
Drs. Lucinda Roff and Lou Burgio are among the leaders in
studies on aging.
C&BA computer facilities provide students with
access to state-of-the-art technology in Bruno
Business Library classrooms.
ALVIN (left), the U.S.'s most famous submersible, and its support ship
ATLANTIS (right) have been frequent hosts to UA's Dr. Paul Aharon.
Aharon has traveled as deep as 7,000 feet during research dives.
Dr. Rebecca Allen, assistant professor of psychology, has
worked with some 30 terminally ill patients and their
families as part of her research at UA.
Dr. Tony Freyer, UA research professor of history and law,
recently edited and published a collection of essays
written by famed civil rights federal district judge Frank
M. Johnson.
Dr. Steve Nagy, professor of health science in CHES, has
been doing research on Alabama adolescent tobacco use
and sexual activity for 14 years.
Dr. Walter Enders used economic variables to predict a major
terrorist activity a year before 9-11.
NIH-sponsored research by UA psychology professors
uses computer games in studying the thinking processes
of children with autism. One goal of the research is to
develop the first performance-based test to diagnose this
neurological disability.
Dr. David Oppenheimer hopes to unlock the secrets of the acorus
plant.
Drs. J.W. Harrell (left) and Dave Nikles research ways to
store more data in less space.
Dr. Stanley Jones conducts research that could assist with
the redesign of bullet-proof glass.
Drs. Anthony Arduengo (left), Joseph Thrasher (middle), and Alan
Lane work to make fuel cell energy a reliable alternative to
gasoline.
Dr. Viola Acoff (left) and Cherqueta Claiborn focus on
alloys significant in the aerospace industry.
Dr. Rex Culp is helping design improved methods of providing
health insurance for children.
Dr. John Higginbotham directs UA's Institute for Rural Health
Research.
Tarsh Freeman (left) and Drs. Ron Buta (center) and Gene Byrd
believe an oddity surrounding a galaxy may be a result of it
having earlier consumed a smaller galaxy.
Among the players in the "SummerTide" production of Pump Boys and
Dinettes are back row (L to R): Michael Freeman, undergraduate
theatre major; Mark Hughes Cobb, UA alumnus, frequent participant in
theatre department productions; Paul Oliver, UA student; front row (L
to R): Stacy Alley, theatre alumna (MFA 2003); Will Cleckler, theatre
alumnus (MFA 2004), Lauren Hauser, undergraduate theatre major.
(photo: Andy Fitch)
Dr. Walter Enders (left), professor of economics and Bidgood Chair of
Economics and Finance, and Dr. Gary Hoover, assistant professor of
economics, wrote a research paper reporting instances of plagiarism
in academic economics journals. Their paper was inspired by having
been plagiarized themselves.
Dr. Greg Dorr (center), assistant professor of history and TAHP project
director, and two local history teachers Becky Brown of Brookwood
High School (L), and Elliott Harris of Northridge High School, stand in
front of UA's Foster Auditorium, site of one of the Civil Rights
Movement's watershed moments, which will be included in the
program's institute this summer.
Dr. John Lochman and Dr. Nicole Palardy, senior research
coordinator in the UA professor's lab, talk with Toni Ford,
counselor at Helena Intermediate School, and Jonathan Rabon,
a UA research assistant.
Pictured with Dr. Bob Wells (right) is Rick Swatloski, a doctoral student in
chemistry who will become CEO of a start-up company based on UA
technology that will be incubated in the AIME facility. He is
demonstrating an example of the environmentally benign technology
that will be found in AIME.
Visiting researchers are given a demonstration of physics
research involving thin-film processing in the "clean room"
laboratory.
Dr. Louis Burgio helps caregivers of dementia patients. He's
currently recruiting caregivers from the Tuscaloosa and
Birmingham areas.
Dr. Heather White, UA English professor, has won the Andrew J.
Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism for her essay "Elizabeth
Bishop's Calling.
Dr. Jennings Bryant, holder of the Reagan Chair of Broadcasting
and director of the Institute for Communication Research, is
widely published in the area of children's television and on the
effects of television on the American family.
Robin Behn, acclaimed poet and English professor in the College of Arts
and Sciences, was selected as the 2003 recipient of the Burnum
Distinguished Faculty Award.
Cornelius Carter, associate professor of theatre and dance in the College
of Arts & Sciences, was named the 2001 U.S. Professor of the Year by
the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
A book authored by Dr. George C. Rable, the Charles G.
Summersell Professor of Southern History in the College of
Arts and Sciences, won the nation's most generous annual
American history award.
The National Academy of Sciences named Dr. Walter Enders, the Lee
Bidgood Chair of Economics and Finance in UA's Culverhouse
College of Commerce and Business Administration, a co-recipient of
its 2003 Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of
Nuclear War.