UA Study to Take ‘Deep Dive’ into Risk Factors for Veterans, Suicides
Social Work Helper – Dec. 19
University of Alabama researchers, America’s Warrior Partnership and The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation have partnered on a four-year, $2.9 million study to explore risk factors that contribute to suicides, early mortality and self-harm among military veterans. “Operation Deep Dive,” funded by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, aims to create better understanding of the risk-factors, particularly at the organizational and community level. Drs. Karl Hamner, director of the Office of Evaluation for the College of Education, and David L. Albright, Hill Crest Foundation Endowed Chair in Mental Health and associate professor in the School of Social Work, are the principal investigators for UA on the study.
Let’s talk about sex—After 60.
Psychology Today – Dec. 19
Let’s talk about sex—after 60 is part one of a three-part series exploring sex and aging. Part I, below, provides an overview of the issues surrounding sex in later life. Parts II and III will feature interviews with thought leaders on the subjects of sexuality and age, including Esther Perel, a therapist and the author of Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence and most recently, The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity as well as with Dr. Martha Nussbaum, a philosopher, professor of law and ethics at the University Chicago, and a co-author of Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret, written alongside Dr. Saul Levmore. Check Eng(aging) for parts II and III, which will be published the next two Fridays. . . . Christina Pierpaoli Parker, MA, is fourth-year graduate student in the Clinical Geropsychology doctoral program at the University of Alabama under the mentorship of Drs. Forrest Scogin and Martha R. Crowther.
Biotech’s sweet home: Alabama?
MedCity News – Dec. 20
It has been a heated few months for the southern state of Alabama. The glaring national spotlight has been fixed on its December 12 special election, which included a controversial Republican candidate who had defied federal law and was accused of pedophilia. Many fretted that a Roy Moore win would spell doom for the state’s economic development, including its nascent biotech sector. “Roy Moore has been a thorn in the side of the business community for well over ten years,” declared Susan Hamill, a professor of law at the University of Alabama, in a phone interview last week. With his defeat, though he is yet to concede, Alabama may well have muted some of the stereotypes of the state as backward and close-minded. So what now for the biotech landscape in the heart of Dixieland?