Faculty and Undergraduate Student Research Database

This interdisciplinary project aims to explore a new concept of using biological process (cell culture) to enable metal thin film deposition and device fabrication. It comprises three aspects, 1) study of biological process to see how the cell culture condition controls the cell growth and metabolic products formation; and 2) study of the metal film deposition process to see how we can modify the substrate to control the film growth; 3) combine the above two aspects using the bio-metabolism products to enable and control the metal thin film growth. This research position focuses the 2nd aspect, studying the metal deposition in relation to substrate and process. Strong interest is required, and some related background are preferred...

The Laboratory for Human-Environmental Interactions Modeling and Analysis (HEIMA; https://heima.ua.edu/) is seeking a motivated undergraduate student to support an ongoing National Science Foundation-funded project on Disrupting Illicit Supply Networks. The undergraduate research assistant will support efforts to detect unidentified or unregulated boats (UUBs) from high resolution satellite imagery. This will contribute to a larger study about the routes that cocaine traffickers use to move shipments through Central America to the United States and European Union. Responsibilities: • Downloading satellite images from designated sources based on predefined criteria. • Processing downloaded images through an existing object-detection m...

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....

Elective-Independent Study Research Opportunity If you are interested in experiencing the research process first hand and building your research resume this Summer 2023 and Fall 2023 semester and Spring Semester 2024. My research areas that we will be working on: Evidence Based Pain Management Interventions, Health Disparities in Cardiac Disease, Self-Help and Depression. Minimum commitment is 2 semesters. We will be working on the following. 4 hours per week (flexible hours-self-directed) 1-4 hours weekly scheduled meeting via zoom (M-F 8 AM-5 PM) -Assist with grant writing -Literature Reviews & systematic reviews -Writing and submitting manuscripts for publication. -Submitting to a presentation to a national conference...

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...

We plan to develop and deploy to local schools a physics experiment that will potentially be included in the standard roaster of physics labs in Tuscaloosa area and statewide. The student will work on the following aspects: 1. Help deciding what lab to deploy. This could be either one of the standard labs implemented with the off-the-shelf commercial instruments (e.g., PASCO Scientific) like the ones offered in the intro physics courses at UA, or a bespoke setup that could be manufactured at the UA machine and electronics shops. 2. Under the supervision of the faculty and the Science In Motion specialist, the student will take care of developing the lab, procuring needed equipment, producing a write-up (manual) for teachers, and orga...

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...