The Year in Brief — December 2002
Battlebots Meets Junkyard Wars as UA Engineering Students Participate in Robot Competition — Sixty teams of UA College of Engineering freshmen participate in the BAMABOT Challenge in the Auxiliary Gym of Coleman Coliseum. The contest requires the freshmen to create a robot for a fictional company that must fit certain specifications and criteria.
UA Business School Team Receives Major Awards for Research on Entrepreneurship — A Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration team has won two major awards at two international conferences for research and publishing in entrepreneurship.
UA Professors Have Key Role in Disappearing Neutrino Research — Two UA faculty members, a postdoctoral research associate, and several graduate students involved in experiments at KamLAND, an underground neutrino detector in central Japan, have been studying anti-neutrino "disappearances," which, researchers hope, will help unlock secrets about the fundamental nature of matter.
UA's Thorington Receives State's First Certification as Advanced Child Care Practitioner — Valerie Thorington, staff member in Child Development Resources and Services at UA, is the first in the state to become a Baby Talk II Advanced Practitioner. Baby Talk is a community-oriented program designed to encourage parents to bond with their infants and young children.
$40,000 Grant Enables UA Web Site to Serve Pickens County — Pickens County now can share its stories with the world through the new Web site DatelinePickens.com that UA journalism students have created, which uses a weekly news magazine format to feature people and places.
UA Nursing Professor Selected as Reviewer for National Council Licensure Examination — The National Council of State Boards of Nursing Inc. selected Dr. Angela Smith Collins as one of six nurses to review items used as part of the National Council Licensure Examination for nurses.
