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Dr. Cling's research is exploring how ideals may pull us along in acquiring better beliefs despite the fact that we cannot have the "fully transparent reasons" our ideals require.

In cooperation with each of the university's colleges, UAH Office of Academic Affairs plans to hold its first campus-wide display of student research in conjunction with Honors Convocation in April 2015.

"Our students are involved in a lot of research, creative projects and scholarly activity with faculty, research staff and local stakeholders," says Dave Cook, coordinator of student research programs for the Office of Academic Affairs. "Dissemination of the results of their work is an essential element of research, and this event will provide experience presenting ideas in the format used by many academic conferences. It also creates a forum for students to discuss cutting-edge research and creative topics with peers, faculty, research staff, administrators, family and the local community."

Mark your calendars for the season's biggest holiday event! Peace on Earth: A Gala Celebration of the Arts and Humanities is returning to the Von Braun Center Concert Hall on Friday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m.

This family-friendly extravaganza, presented by the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), captures the spirit of the season with a selection of traditional holiday classics – and showcases the collaborative efforts of the city's arts organizations.

This year's gala will feature performances from the Department of Music's faculty and students as well as community partners including the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, the Huntsville Community Chorus, the Huntsville Ballet, the First Baptist Church Mosaic Ringers, and Randolph School's Young Voices.

Five projects were presented by students at UAH during a poster competition at the GEO-Energy Summit and Educational Forum 2014 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Nov. 12-13.

Three UAH students brought home prizes from the poster session, which included research utilizing geospatial technologies by graduate and undergraduate students from UAH and Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (AAMU).

Alabama has long made a name for itself as the go-to destination for music recording thanks to Muscle Shoals' legendary sound studios. And now UAH plans to bolster the state's reputation with the construction of a world-class analog recording studio in the newly renovated Roberts Recital Hall.

According to Johnna Doty, UAH's Director of Music Technology, seeds for the studio were planted shortly after construction began on the hall. "When they started taking the old recital hall apart, we starting putting together some ideas of how we could maximize the space," she says.

Wolfram M. Schmidgen, noted English professor, author and visiting Eminent Scholar will give a public talk at UAH on Nov. 13.

Schmidgen will give the talk "Species and the Literary Imagination," at 7 p.m., in Wilson Hall (room 168). His visit is sponsored by the UAH Humanities Center, and the English Department. The talk is free and open to the public.

Dr. Brian Bornstein and Dr. Scott Gronlund, experts in the fields of psychology and law will give a public seminar on eyewitness identification myths, on Thursday, Nov. 6, at UAH.

The seminar "Eyewitness Memory Myths and The Costs and Benefits of Identification Reform," will begin at 7 p.m., in Wilson Hall (room 163). The event is sponsored by the UAH Department of Psychology, and is free and open to the public.

A record number of students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) entered the student poster competition at the seventh Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium held on the campus Oct. 27-29.

A total of 43 students representing every college at UAH presented research projects relevant to the aerospace industry, such as atmospheric science, earth observation, space life sciences, space health, aerospace systems engineering and design, astrophysics, space weather, optics, economics, business, policy, sustainability, history, international relations, education, STEM outreach initiatives, and related areas.

The annual symposium is sponsored by the American Astronautical Society (AAS) and organized collaboratively by UAH, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the Huntsville National Space Club.

Students at UAH probably weren't expecting to sing music from their favorite video games when they auditioned for the UAH Chamber Choir this semester. But when the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra (HSO) invited them to perform in the Video Games Live™ (VGL) concert at the Von Braun Center on Oct. 17, that's exactly what they did.

"The HSO contacted me over the summer about having the Chamber Choir sing at VGL and we got the music in mid-September, which gave us a month to prepare," says Dr. Erin Colwitz, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities. "Some parts were easy but some were rhythmically very challenging. And it's made-up Latin, so that was a little weird! But luckily the students play all these games and know how to pronounce the words."

Internationally recognized historian Ellen Schrecker will be the guest speaker for UAH's Distinguished Speakers Series on Thursday, Oct. 16.

Schrecker will give the public lecture "Academic Freedom in Higher Education," at 4 p.m., in Frances Roberts Recital Hall. Her talk at UAH will explore long-term structural changes in American society and how these have impacted academic freedom, in principle and in practice, in universities. Her visit is sponsored by the UAH Departments of Sociology and History, the Humanities Center and the UAH Chapter of American Association of University Professors. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Schrecker has been writing about higher education and political repression for 30 years. She is the world-renowned historian on McCarthyism and Professor Emerita of History at Yeshiva University (YU) New York, N.Y. She currently teaches at The Stern College for Women, the undergraduate women's college of arts and sciences of YU.