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Our faculty are at the forefront of continued discovery and innovation.
NSF Career Award Winners
National Humanities Center Fellow
Faculty Fulbright Scholars
National Endowment for the Humanities Award Winners
Scientific discoveries and creative breakthroughs happen every day at UA, and they make real differences in the lives of the people we serve. In the Barefield College of Arts & Sciences, scholars and researchers target the greatest challenges of our times, tear down creative and cultural barriers, and explore the most complex processes of the physical universe.
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Across the J. Frank Barefield Jr. College of Arts & Sciences, faculty and students worked in labs, classrooms and communities to find transformative answers to both everyday and unique challenges. In 2025, BCAS faculty were awarded nearly $37 million for research.
The opening of the Alabama Center for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence will unify new and existing AI research efforts as part of a campus-wide collaboration between several colleges.
Dr. Carla Atkinson’s lab studies the ecology, evolution, and conservation of aquatic ecosystems. Atkinson was recently a keynote speaker at the 2nd European Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society Meeting in Sweden.
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