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The RRS Pro Volunteer group had its first volunteer day last Saturday walking dogs at the Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter!

RRS students Jossy Peterson and Henry Vlacovsky work with UA Education Policy Center student colleagues. Led by Dr. Steve Katsinas and Dr. Nathaniel Bray, they co-authored a new report on poverty in Alabama’s Black Belt.

RRS student Christian Stephens has just returned from trips to Vienna, Austria and San Juan, Puerto Rico where he presented his research and reconvened with his European collaborators.

RRS Sophomore Kaitlin Deans performed TWO national anthems this week at the softball and tennis events. Please see below for softball...

...and here is Kaitlin again! Videography courtesy of Liam Smith.

The Randall Premier event is this weekend and kicked off with a panel talk from past recipients who shared their career path and advice. Congrats to Ben Trost as the 2025 recipient (far right) Panelists included: Dr. Thomas, Dr. Outlaw, Dr. Preston, Mr. Sunny, and Ben!

A fun evening of minigolf with the RRS program at PopStroke ..and a special opportunity to wish Dr. Randall a happy birthday!

RRS Junior Blake Yuenger (Chemistry) presented a poster on improving activation of palladium precatalysts for C-N cross coupling catalysis at ACS Spring 2025 in San Diego.

More proof that Liam Smith actually has a twin who doubles for him across campus...

The 2025 URCA event (ugrad posters) kicked off on April 1 with over 500 posters. The RRS students are presenting nearly 90 posters this year. Below is a subset of RRS students from Session 1 (there are 6 sessions over April 1-2). The University of Alabama

Kit Davis, a Senior at Munford HS in Tennessee, is the first student to accept the invitation to be a member of the 2025 Freshman RRS cohort! Kit's new pal, Big Al, visited her school recently. Photo with Kit, Big Al, and Mrs. Beaver (Kit and Big Al's Calculus teacher)

Good job! Congrats to RRS Sophomores Zach Griffith (U. of Alabama Chemical & Biological Eng.) & Jesse Park (University of Alabama Department of Mechanical Eng) on being named 2025 Ernest F. Hollings Scholars! This is the 3rd year in a row that RRS had 2 or more students as Hollings recipients (~120 per year) The University of Alabama UA College of Engineering NOAA

Two young Padawans sharing their math skills on the way to Jedi Masters.

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Price (Professor of Economics in the Culverhouse College of Business) for being selected as the 2025 Randall Research Scholars Program "Project Director of the Year"!

Congrats to RRS alum Carter Pate for successfully defending his Masters Thesis last week! Dr. Aijun Song was his advisor and Dr. Drew Taylor & Dr. Jeff Gray were his committee members. Three RRS/CBH connections in the photo - Dr. Drew Taylor is a CBH alum! UA College of Engineering

Jules Bates, RRS alum, is a 2025 scholar of the NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program. She is a 2023 UA graduate in Chemical Engineering. She was also a Goldwater Scholar at UA! Jules is pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at UVa. Congrats Jules! UA College of Engineering

Way to go Lukas! Congratulations on your Masters Thesis defense last week! Best wishes on your future career in Huntsville! Come back to visit often! UA College of Engineering UA Honors College

RRS sophomore Alexander Kim earned 1st place in Engineering at UAB’s Undergrad Research Expo for research on E- & N-cadherin expression in breast cancer cell lines under Dr. Mary Kathryn Sewell-Loftin, through an internship from the American Cancer Society! UA College of Engineering

RRS alum Madeline Yob recently presented her research at the 2025 International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA) in Rotterdam!