UA’s TCF Department Chooses Scriptwriting Contest Winners
The grand prize winner in a University of Alabama screenwriting contest, a telecommunication and film student from Mobile, will receive a $5,000 cash prize.
UA in the News: Feb. 27, 2014
UA sports communication expert studies gender gap in Olympics coverage – Business students build Habitat house – UA researchers use shrimp shells to mine uranium from the ocean – Moundville Archaeological Park to host ‘Knap-In” – Students prepare for Dance Marathon – Body image events held – and more…
UA in the News: Feb. 26, 2014
UA expert studies gender gap in Olympics coverage – Sports communication symposium speaker to discuss gay student-athletes – Wendell Hudson writes book – UA students win journalism awards – UA plans for Bryce property – UA funds research on rare earth metals through Defense Department grant – Symposium to focus on diversity issues – and more…
UA Faculty, Students Win National BEA Awards
Representatives from The University of Alabama’s telecommunication and film department recently brought home three top paper awards, along with multiple media awards.
UA in the News: Feb. 25, 2014
UA sports communication expert comments on television coverage of Olympics – UA subawards Defense Department funding for rare earth metals research – Dinah Washington Center brings UA art downtown – and more…
Award-winning GLBTQ Scholar Headlines UA Diversity Symposium
An award-winning author on GLBTQ issues, two sessions on radio in the civil rights era and a record number of University of Alabama student presentations on diversity issues will highlight this year’s Discerning Diverse Voices Symposium.
UA Senior Named Southeastern College Journalist of the Year
University of Alabama journalism senior and Crimson White culture editor Abbey Crain was named 2013 College Journalist of the Year, and the newspaper won the Best Public Service award in the Southeastern Journalism Conference’s annual “Best of the South” contest, at the recent SEJC convention in Lafayette, La.
UA in the News: Feb. 22-24, 2014
UA expert comments on media coverage of Olympics – UA plans academic and residential buildings on Bryce campus – School of Music to become All Steinway School – Marketing students build Habitat house – Nick Saban listed among “West Virginians Who Matter” – Opera theatre finds new home on Bryce campus – Fraternity hosts bone marrow donor registration drive – UA student works at Sochi Olympics – and more…
UA Preview
This week at The University of Alabama: UA student earns Achievement Award from U.S. State Department – UA researcher finds gender gap in Olympic coverage narrowing – UA adds two engineering degrees – UA experts comment on climate change, filing tax return extensions, colorectal cancer screening – Events include Kathryn Stockett lecture, sports communication symposium, lecture on inclusive communities, business plan competition and more
UA Researcher Finds Gender Gap in Olympic Coverage is Narrowing
A University of Alabama researcher was part of a team who found that, in the combined 18 nights of NBC’s Sochi Olympic broadcast, male athletes received the plurality of the network’s primetime coverage, but not nearly to the extent of past Winter Olympic analyses.