This spring, the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees awarded the rank of Distinguished Professor to five and the rank of University Professor to four faculty members.

The 2024 honorees for the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching represent each school, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Honors College, and the Graduate School.

Emma Sartin, Ph.D., MPH, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Organization at the School of Public Health, is leading a Department of Defense-funded project that is developing a virtual assessment to help autistic individuals and their parents decide whether they are ready to drive.