Faculty and Undergraduate Student Research Database

This project is investigating the influence of skin tone and heat stress on wearable device performance during exercise. Students will assist with data collection during the Spring 2024 semester. If you are interested in using this research opportunity for course credit or Emerging Scholars, please mention that in your application. No prior lab experience is necessary. This project will be led by Annie Mulholland, a PhD candidate in the Department of Kinesiology. The faculty mentor for this project is Dr. Jonathan Wingo....

The selected student will be in charge of transcribing baptism records from the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo from the late 16th and early 17th century. The records are written in old Spanish script, so under my guidance, students will spend the initial weeks getting acquainted with early modern Spanish writing conventions and handwriting. Students will thus learn Spanish Paleography, that is, the making of a transcription of a manuscript page written in early modern script. These could be useful skills for those interested to work in historical archives or those interested to go to graduate school to study the history early modern Spain, colonial Latin America, or the Spanish Caribbean. Patience and perseverance during these early we...

Students interested in brain-to-brain coordination during coversation (as well as development of it in children and clinical populations) are invited to train in my lab (https://malaia.people.ua.edu/opportunities.html) as volunteers. Class credit available in CD 350 or CD 360 Honors; training in Good Laboratory Practices and experiment administration provided. Since the training is fairly involved, 1-year commitment (Fall-Spring, or Spring-Fall) is required. You'd be working in a small group (3-4 student researchers), and comfortable coordinating/scheduling flexibly. The hours (3-5/week) are calculated based on 2-3 experimental recordings a week, which, depending on participant availability, might take place evenings or weekends. Any ma...

I am running a sleep-body composition study out of the SLUMBRx lab that includes clinical, epidemiological, and ambulatory data collection though a National Institutes of Health funded grant. I am primarily seeking a motivated student interested in academic research to assist with data collection this spring and summer. While it's an unpaid position, I am willing to provide training on data collection, data management, study logistics, as well as conference presentation/publication opportunities....

Hello, Thank you for your interest. We are tailoring the Empowering African-American Women on the Road to Health (E-WORTH) intervention for Black women who are on probation, parole, etc.., and use substances (https://ccnmtl.github.io/worth3public/). The work involves 1) meeting with them and other stakeholders to discuss the intervention; 2) tailoring the intervention; and 3) delivering the tailored intervention to a handful of women. The intervention in question also has proven effective addressing a host of other risks such as intimate partner violence and drug use. Duties may include: 1. participate in intervention adaptation meetings with women currently on probation and parole; 2. assist in identifying community resources fo...

Dr. Biefeld’s BODY LAB is looking for undergraduate research assistants (RAs). We study how experiences of harassment and discrimination (at an individual and systematic level) impact the mental and physical health of children and adolescents. We also investigate the ways that body justice, intersecting identities, and community membership foster well-being and healthy development. Importantly, work in the lab utilizes both quantitative and qualitative approaches. You can see more about our work here: https://bodylab.ua.edu/ We study topics such as: (1) perceptions of discrimination across intersecting identities (e.g., gender identity, body-size, sexual orientation, and race/ethnicity) (2) peer-to-peer gender-based and sexual haras...

literature review, Data management and secondary data analysis...