UA’s ‘Where Legends Are Made’ Campaign Wins Advertising Awards

The University of Alabama’s new branding campaign, Where Legends Are Made, recently collected multiple advertising awards. The campaign, which launched in September 2016, picked up accolades from judges in the American Advertising Awards competition in two cities as well as a national award from the Higher Education Association.

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This week at The University of Alabama: “Why do males exist?” talk March 7 — Casting for a sword — Museum programs for children — and more.

UA Engineering Students Re-create History

UA Engineering Students Re-create History

A few University of Alabama engineering majors have spent the past five months researching and developing a plan to create a replica of an 18th century British Hanger rapier that has been part of UA Museums for the last half century.

UA’s Gorgas House Museum Highlights WWI Contributions

UA’s Gorgas House Museum Highlights WWI Contributions

Contributions made by William C. Gorgas during World War I is the feature of a new exhibit opening at UA’s Gorgas House Museum on Saturday, March 4.

UA Center Sends Reading Kits to Black Belt Schools

The University of Alabama Center for Economic Development, along with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, is promoting the National Education Association’s Read Across America Day by providing Dr. Seuss-themed reading kits to 21 schools in seven counties in the Black Belt region.

UA Survey: Education, Training Top Economic Issues

Business executives in Alabama believe education and workforce training comprise the top issue currently facing the state.

Annual Civil War Lectures to be Held at UA

A series of lectures about the Civil War will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 1, in Sellers Auditorium at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.

Conversation with Dr. Alan Blum

Dr. Alan Blum, Gerald Leon Wallace Endowed Chair in Family Medicine at the UA College of Community Health Sciences, discusses why physicians need to be more active and creative in the clinic, classroom and community in smoking prevention and cessation.

New UA Class Reveals History of Local Lynchings; Marker for Victims to be Erected

New UA Class Reveals History of Local Lynchings; Marker for Victims to be Erected

As part of a new history class called “Southern Memory: Lynching in the South,” which was started at The University of Alabama this fall by Dr. John Giggie, 15 students have spent the semester learning about the history and rationale of lynching, as well as tracking down the history of the documented lynchings that took place in Tuscaloosa County.