Month November 2022


UA Hosts Symposium to Address Food and Water Challenges

The University of Alabama recently hosted “Multiple Inequalities in Every Meal: Theorizing Intersectional Foodways, Past and Present.” This interdisciplinary workshop assembled an international panel of food scholars from archaeology, cultural anthropology, American studies, women’s studies and African American studies to engage in discourse about the ways inequality was manufactured and maintained in the past and…


AWI Spotlight: Emily Fischer

The Alabama Water Institute recently welcomed Emily Fischer as a science communications student intern. Fischer is a sophomore at The University of Alabama, majoring in biology with a minor in English. As a science communications intern, Fischer writes press releases and feature articles highlighting cutting-edge hydrological research and projects being conducted at UA and by…


UA Researchers Find Hydroplaning Risks Greater in Southern US

Research from The University of Alabama reveals the southern United States is a primary hotspot for hydroplaning due to extreme rainfall, a phenomenon that is known to elevate the risks of road accidents. A study recently published by Kaustubh Anil Salvi, a postdoctoral researcher with the Alabama Transportation Institute, and Dr. Mukesh Kumar, associate professor of civil, construction and…


AWI Researcher Develops New Snow Model Machine Learning Tutorial

The creation of a new machine learning tutorial based on a national snow model from researchers at The University of Alabama and the University of Utah has been funded by a grant from the Earth Science Information Partners. Dr. Ryan Johnson, an artificial intelligence research scientist at the Alabama Water Institute, and his collaborator, Dane Liljestrand,…


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