A record number of freshmen in The University of Alabama Honors College will come to campus a week early, Aug. 9-14, to take part in the service-learning projects Alabama Action and Outdoor Action to help the West Alabama community and a region of the Black Belt.
Dr. Kim Bissell, Southern Progress Corporation Endowed Professor in Magazine Journalism in The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences, has been selected for the 2009 Krieghbaum Under-40 Award.
Five leading undergraduate science students at The University of Alabama have been named 2009-2010 Alabama Dystonia Scholars and Parkinson’s Association of Alabama Scholars.
Government documents have a tremendous amount of information buried in them, and Valerie Glenn and other librarians at The University of Alabama hold the shovel.
University of Alabama students who have not had an opportunity to learn the game of golf will soon be able to master the sport thanks to a grant to UA through Play Golf America University, a program designed to teach and engage students.
A UA summer program supported by the National Science Foundation is helping prepare the next generation of chemists and scientific researchers.
“Space/Place,” an installation featuring two sculptures of molecules by University of Alabama sculpture professor Craig Wedderspoon, has touched down on the campus of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville.
There was a time when writing meant using a pencil or pen to place words on a page and going to a meeting required some form of travel. Today, communication involves “tweeting,” “Skyping” and posting on something called a “wiki.” So how does one make sense of the new World Wide Web and how to use it?
Dr. John L. Blackburn, a veteran administrator at The University of Alabama and a prominent civic leader, died July 3, 2009, in Tuscaloosa.
Dr. James A. Hall has been named dean of The University of Alabama School of Social Work.