For nearly 20 years, the Department of Philosophy has brought many of the most influential thinkers in contemporary philosophy to The University of Alabama campus. From Jean Nicod Prize winners to members of the American Philosophical Society, these scholars visit the Barefield College of Arts & Sciences through the Philosophy Today Speaker Series, a public lecture series established in 2007 through the support of former Dean Robert Olin. Visiting speakers give public lectures on topics of broad interest to the […]

In one of the largest studies of its kind, two Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice faculty members addressed one of the most pressing challenges across higher education: generative AI and academic integrity. Dr. Patrick McClanahan, an assistant professor, and Dr. Timothy Dickinson, an associate professor, recently published a paper in Computers in Human Behavior that uses rational choice theory, a prominent crime theory, to evaluate how students choose whether to use AI on assignments. The study produced results that […]

Dr. Francis Halzen, the principal investigator of IceCube Neutrino Observatory which has a research group at UA, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics this week for “decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.” Dr. Dawn Williams and Dr. Marcos Santander, the Department of Physics & Astronomy faculty members who lead the UA IceCube group, said this is exciting news for their collaboration.   “This is a well-deserved recognition of Prof. Halzen’s vision of turning a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into a […]

When Nevaeh Anderson first started interning with Museums Research & Collections, she didn’t realize she would be playing I Spy with ancient artifacts. Anderson’s internship, which she obtained through her minor in the Blount Scholars Program, was to comb through Egyptian artifacts and not-quite-Egyptian artifacts and identify the true Egyptian artifacts.   As a junior majoring in art history and minoring in Blount, studio art, and French, Anderson is in the process of curating her college experience for her dream job of a museum curator. As her first exhibition, she is taking her internship experience and transforming it […]