Alabama Action
Alabama Action provides a student-created service-learning experience for 150 Honors College freshmen. This year students are painting, preparing classrooms and creating outdoor learning spaces at Vance Elementary School.
Cook Political Report Editor to Speak at UA’s Blackburn Symposium
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Charlie Cook, editor and publisher of the Cook Political Report and columnist for the National Journal, will be the keynote speaker in the annual Gloria and John L. Blackburn Academic Symposium at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Ferguson Center on The University of Alabama campus. Cook’s lecture is free and open
UA holds Kente Robing Ceremony
The Black Faculty/Staff Association at The University of Alabama held a Kente Robing Ceremony on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, before the summer commencement exercises.
Campus Construction Update 2016
By Collin Burwinkel Numerous renovation and building projects are underway across The University of Alabama campus, and more will be starting soon. These projects will improve existing buildings and provide more classroom space, lecture halls, band halls and a storm shelter
Cyber Sleuths
By Katie Bedrich As a high school student, Caitlin Hanley had her first experience with cybercrime. Her laptop computer was infected with a virus while she was studying in Germany, and she decided she wanted to help others avoid similar experiences. Around the same time, The University of Alabama Police Department, in partnership with College
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MONDAY, AUG. 8 – SUNDAY, AUG. 14, 2016 BEST BETS ALABAMA ACTION – About 150 students from UA’s Honors College will work at Vance Elementary and Brookwood Middle schools from Monday, Aug. 8, to Friday, Aug. 12. Service projects include painting and building benches and tables for an outdoor classroom. A media day will be
UA’s 2016 Week of Welcome Features Service, Events and Fun
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Service projects, a convocation and several meet-and-greet activities highlight The University of Alabama’s Week of Welcome, or “The WOW Factor,” for freshmen, transfer and returning students beginning Saturday, Aug. 13. Organized by UA’s University Programs office, the Week of Welcome offers more than two-dozen events designed to usher in first-year and transfer
UA Announces 2016 Communication Hall of Fame Inductees
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences will holds its annual Communication Hall of Fame dinner on Thursday, Oct. 6, in the North Zone at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The 2016 inductees are Rick Bragg, Eli Gold, James Spann and George Stewart. Rick Bragg Rick Bragg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author
Summer 2016 Graduates Announced at UA
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama will award some 1,537 degrees during spring commencement Saturday, Aug. 6. With this graduating class, UA will have awarded more than 255,000 degrees since its founding in 1831 as the state’s first public university. Students listed as candidates to receive degrees include:
UA’s Honors College Schedules Week of Action-Oriented Service Activities
Editors/Producers Note: A Media Day is scheduled from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, for Alabama Action at Vance Elementary School. Students will perform outdoor and indoor service tasks to prepare for the start of school. Contact Richard LeComte, media relations, at rllecomte@ur.ua.edu or 205/394-3040. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — More than 200 University of Alabama Honors College freshmen and