Established by the Leadership Board in 1997, the Outstanding Commitment to Students Award recognizes a tenured or tenure-track faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences for service in the advancement of students beyond the classroom. Congratulations, Matt!
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The department of Biological Sciences is very proud of our students whose achievements in academics, research, and teaching were recognized during Honors Week. Congratulations all! GRADUATE AWARDS Joab Langston Thomas Scholarship – Feng Kong, Nathan Hofford Ralph L. Chermock Prize – Paula Adams Isabella H. Graham Prize – Phoenix Rogers, Thomas Franzem Bishop-Stackman Marine Science Endowed Scholarship – Aurora Giorgi, Matteo Monti William and Ilouise Hill Research Award for Excellence in Teaching Spring Semester – Phoenix Rogers, Youn-ji Nam William […]
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An exhibit at the Alabama Museum of Natural History about Alabama state symbols features research conducted by Dr. Paige Ferguson and her graduate student Franco Gigliotti. Their research examined the influence of habitat management on food availability for the red-cockaded woodpecker. The museum exhibit also features a paper they recently published that reviewed the effectiveness of different conservation methods across the red-cockaded woodpecker’s range. Visit the ALMNH to check this exhibit out!
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The Department of Biological Sciences at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, seeks to hire an assistant professor for a non-tenure track renewable contract (NTRC) teaching position in Physiology or related fields beginning August 2022. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in Biology or a related field. The position is structured as a renewable 9 month, 3-year contract with an annual performance review that will allow for promotion through the academic ranks. The Department of Biological Sciences at The University of Alabama, […]
The Department of Biological Sciences assigns graduate teaching assistants to the freshman-level core majors courses to run the BSC Help Desk. The purpose of the Help Desk is to provide students with assistance on lecture material in addition to instructor office hours and the services available at the Capstone Center for Student Success. We strongly encourage our students to take advantage of this free resource! For the spring 2022 semester, the BSC Help Desk is available to assist students with […]
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Dr. E. O. Wilson is an esteemed alumnus of the University of Alabama Department of Biological Sciences. He was a born naturalist and a pioneer in the field of evolutionary biology. Sadly, Dr. Wilson passed away on December 26th (read his obituary in the New York Times and learn more about his remarkable career here), but his work will continue to influence the biological sciences indefinitely. He will be missed not just by those who have read his many papers […]
Arts & Sciences Dean’s Postdoc Pool Job Summary: Postdoctoral Research Associate positions available to persons with degrees and research interests in the biological sciences, with the goal of transitioning successful candidates into tenure-track positions at the University of Alabama’s College of Arts & Sciences. Additional Department Summary: The College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Alabama and the Department of Biological Sciences seeks applications for the Dean’s Postdoctoral Research Associate positions. Successful candidates will hold terminal degrees and […]
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In addition to being a world expert on marine algae, Dr. Juan Lopez-Bautista is a talented artist who presented his Master of Fine Arts exhibition entitled Border Stories. Dr. Lopez-Bautista’s art includes mixed media works collaged with images related to people migrating to the US-Mexican border. The artworks, painted with acrylic washes, inks, dry pigments, and acrylic transfers on synthetic paper and panels, depict migrants, and the objects that represent their presence, immersed in an abstract landscape as in a […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Laura Reed for being awarded the 2021 Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award! This award recognizes a singular, exceptional or timely work of research, product, program or published material that is innovative, creative, useful or captures the imagination. Dr. Reed was chosen for this award based on her leadership of the Genomics Education Partnership, a collaboration of more than 180 institutions throughout the U.S. that engages biology students in real research projects that enable them to learn advanced techniques […]
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Dr. Hoadley has been awarded two Alabama Center of Excellence grants to study climate change impacts on benthic filter feeders and phytoplankton communities in the northern Gulf of Mexico. He will lead the first grant entitled “Understanding the Interactive Effects of Predation and Ocean Acidification on Economically Important Oyster Variants in the Northern Gulf of Mexico” with collaborators Dr. Dustin Kemp (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and Dr. Lee Smee (Dauphin Island Sea Lab). The second grant “Using Optical and […]
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