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3Dr. 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.
4Dr. Michael Hardin and a team of UA students are
partnering with SAS, a leading software supplier,
in research to reduce money laundering.
5Drs. 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.
6Using colorful satellite imagery, Dr. Luoheng Han
monitors water quality hundreds of miles away
from his UA office.
7Biology 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.
8UA 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.
9Michelle 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.
10- 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.
11- Dr. John Higginbotham, Dr. Alfonza Atkinson and
Dr. John Stone meet at Tuskegee University to
discuss Project EXPORT research.
12- Dr. Margaret "Peg" Lyons conducted a telephone
survey of breast cancer patients living in rural
areas.
13Dr. Michael Triche, associate professor of civil
and environmental engineering, researches ways to
improve buildings' abilities to survive storms.
14Drs. 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.
15Ashley Dumas, a UA graduate student, directs an
archaeological dig at the site of the original
Tabasco factory on Avery Island in Louisiana.
Shes shown holding a photo of the 19th-century
building.
16Dr. 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.
17- Drs. Guy Caldwell and Tonya Klein each received a
National Science Foundation CAREER Awardpart of
the NSF's program to help top performers early in
their careers develop as both educators and
researchers.
18Dr. Keith Jacobi, assistant professor of
anthropology,and students Ben Shields and Stacy
McGrath look at X-rays.
19Dr. Viola Acoff, associate professor of
metallurgical andmaterials 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
20- Dr. Stephen Secor studies the Burmese python.
21The 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.
22Dr. Rodney Bowersox, middle, and students
Daina Lee, left, and Zakaria Mahmud conduct
research in a new aerophysics lab.
23- Museum summer expeditions attract young
researchers such as 15-year-old Jacob Fields of
Raleigh, N.C.
24This 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.
25Kathleen Williams (left), a nurse practitioner
and instructor in UAs Capstone College of
Nursing, and Dr. Jeri Dunkin, a professor of
nursing and holder of UAs Martha Saxon Memorial
Endowed Presidential Chair position, in front of
the campus operated Parrish health center.
26- 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.
27Dr. 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
28Campus sculpture program
29Theatre department in action
30- Dr. Allen Parrish has worked on a new computer
search system to aid law enforcement.
31 (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.
32- Drs. Lucinda Roff and Lou Burgio are among the
leaders in studies on aging.
33CBA computer facilities provide students
with access to state-of-the-art technology in
Bruno Business Library classrooms.
34- 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.
35Dr. Rebecca Allen, assistant professor of
psychology, has worked with some 30 terminally
ill patients and their families as part of her
research at UA.
36Dr. 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.
37Dr. Steve Nagy, professor of health science in
CHES, has been doing research on Alabama
adolescent tobacco use and sexual activity for 14
years.
38- Dr. Walter Enders used economic variables to
predict a major terrorist activity a year before
9-11.
39NIH-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.
40- Dr. David Oppenheimer hopes to unlock the secrets
of the acorus plant.
41Drs. J.W. Harrell (left) and Dave Nikles
research ways to store more data in less space.
42Dr. Stanley Jones conducts research that
could assist with the redesign of bullet-proof
glass.
43- Drs. Anthony Arduengo (left), Joseph Thrasher
(middle), and Alan Lane work to make fuel cell
energy a reliable alternative to gasoline.
44Dr. Viola Acoff (left) and Cherqueta
Claiborn focus on alloys significant in the
aerospace industry.
45- Dr. Rex Culp is helping design improved methods
of providing health insurance for children.
46- Dr. John Higginbotham directs UA's Institute for
Rural Health Research.
47- 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.
48- 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)
49- 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.
50- 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.
51- 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.
52- 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.
53- Visiting researchers are given a demonstration of
physics research involving thin-film processing
in the "clean room" laboratory.
54- Dr. Louis Burgio helps caregivers of dementia
patients. He's currently recruiting caregivers
from the Tuscaloosa and Birmingham areas.
55- Dr. Heather White, UA English professor, has won
the Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism
for her essay "Elizabeth Bishop's Calling.
56- 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.
57- 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.
58- 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.
59- 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.
60- 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.