Month April 2023


UA’s Global Water Security Center Makes Connections at UN Water Conference

Represented by the Global Water Security Center, The University of Alabama was one of only 440 organizations including only 80 universities worldwide awarded special accreditation to participate in the 2023 United Nations Water Conference. Mike Gremillion, GWSC director and interim executive director of the Alabama Water Institute, and Dr. Kate Brauman, GWSC associate director for…


National Science Foundation Selects UA Student for Competitive Fellowship

A graduate student in The University of Alabama Department of Biological Sciences has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. David R. Yannick, from Orlando, Florida, is studying the biogeochemistry of wetlands in his graduate program at UA. He is one of 2,500 NSF Graduate Research Fellows selected for 2023. Yannick’s award is…


UA Biological Researchers Return to Antarctica to Discover, Study New Species

A team of 30 scientists, including a group from The University of Alabama, have returned to the waters surrounding Antarctica to better understand the biodiversity of an understudied group of marine invertebrates and how these animals are affected by climate change. The spring 2023 Icy Inverts expedition marks the second time in three years that…


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