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Faculty Accolades for Nov. 26, 2018

Dr. Lingyan Kong and Dr. Libo Tan, College of Human Environmental Sciences, received a $20,000 research grant awarded by the USDA and Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries to study “Postharvest Interventions to Improve Quality and Microbial Safety of Microgreens.” This project seeks to optimize postharvest conditions to improve the nutritional and sensorial quality, shelf life and microbial food safety of microgreens grown in Alabama.

Dr. Juanita McMath, consumer sciences, received the Mid-South Educational Research Association Outstanding Dissertation Award. McMath presented her research, “The Gray Divide: A Stage Theory Analysis of Technology Adoption by Older Adults,” at MSERA’s annual meeting earlier this month.

Dr. Stacy I. Morgan, American studies, won the 2018 Wayland D. Hand Prize for Outstanding Book in Folklore and History for his monograph “Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America” (University of Texas Press, 2017).

Lingyan Kong
Juanita McMath
Stacy Morgan
Libo Tan

 

 

 

 

 

SEC Faculty Travel Program Recipients

The SEC Faculty Travel Program will support more than 100 SEC faculty members during the 2018-2019 academic year. Participants will travel to other SEC universities to exchange ideas, develop grant proposals, conduct research and deliver lectures or performances. University of Alabama Travelers and the universities they are visiting include: