by Hardin Young | Aug 19, 2022 | Faculty Points of Pride, Features, Research, Student Success, Uncategorized
$1.25 Million Awarded to Support STEAM Education for Delta Students The Science Education Partnership Award program awarded the U of A $1.25 million to support STEAM education (science, technology, engineering, art and math) for underrepresented students. The...
by Hardin Young | Aug 2, 2022 | Features, Interdisciplinary Research, Research, Research and Innovation
The Collaborative Crush Test On a scorching day in July, representatives from multiple colleges at the U of A, as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gathered at the Harvell Civil Engineering Research and Education Center to conduct a stress test on a...
by Hardin Young | Jul 4, 2022 | Awards & Honors, Features, Research
Valandra Wins Prestigious Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grant Valandra, an associate professor jointly appointed in the School of Social Work and African and African American Studies at the U of A, received a prestigious Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grant. ...
by Hardin Young | Apr 11, 2022 | Features, Research and Innovation
Gene Linked to Hearing in Humans Also Linked to Touch in Sea Anemones An international team of investigators, including several researchers in biological sciences from the U of A, have published a paper that reports the discovery of a developmental gene linked to...
by Hardin Young | Mar 7, 2022 | Features, Research and Innovation
NSF Awards $670,000 to Use Virtual Reality to Evaluate Eyewitness Accuracy The National Science Foundation awarded just under $670,000 to a team of researchers, including one at the U of A, to study the relationship between eyewitness confidence and accuracy across a...