UA’s HES Presents Taylor with Rowland Award
The University of Alabama’s College of Human Environmental Sciences presented Brian Taylor with the Joseph Rowland Teaching Award at its Homecoming Convocation Sept. 30.
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This week at The University of Alabama: Moundville Native American Festival – Beat Auburn, Beat Hunger kickoff event – Hamlet on Jazz — Engineering Open House – Women engineers host event for middle-school girls
Hamlet on Jazz at UA
Hamlet is an age-old Shakespearean tale of revenge, betrayal, ghosts, incest, depression and murder. If that wasn’t enough to hold the interest of modern audiences of this more than 400-year-old legendary play, what if award-winning University of Alabama theatre and dance professor Seth Panitch jazzed it up a bit?
UA Students Elect Senior as 2016 Homecoming Queen
Ainsely LeBlanc, a senior public relations major, of Cordova, Tennessee, has been elected the 2016 University of Alabama Homecoming Queen. She is sponsored by Alpha Omicron Pi.
UA Women Engineers to Host Event for Middle School Girls
The University of Alabama section of the Society of Women Engineers, or SWE, will host about 200 middle-school girls for a hands-on discovery of engineering.
UA Professor Receives Highest Award in Geosciences
The American Geosciences Institute recently announced that Dr. Berry H. “Nick” Tew Jr., the state geologist of Alabama and the director of The University of Alabama’s Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies, has received the AGI Medal in Memory of Ian Campbell for Superlative Service to the Geosciences, the institute’s highest award.
5 Elected to UA Homecoming Queen Court
The 2016 University of Alabama Homecoming Court was selected in a Sept. 27 student election. A total of 11,736 votes were cast.
UA Gallery Features Photographs of American Landscapes
The photography of Ines Schaefer will be displayed from Friday, Oct. 7, to Friday, Oct. 28, at The University of Alabama Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in downtown Tuscaloosa.
Science Writer to Discuss Evolution in UA’s ALLELE Series
Award-winning author and science journalist Carl Zimmer will be on campus Thursday, Oct. 6, to talk about the global impact of human evolution at the 11th Alabama Lectures on Life’s Evolution, or ALLELE, seminar series.
UA to Share in $3.45 Million NSF Grant to Aid Innovation
The University of Alabama’s role in fostering entrepreneurship and innovation is strengthened through a new $3.45 million National Science Foundation grant awarded to the regional hub to which UA and three other universities belong.