Gower Named New Director of UA Plank Center for Leadership in PR
Dr. Karla Gower has been named director of the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations, headquartered at The University of Alabama.
Faculty & Staff
UA Team Earns HudsonAlpha Innovation Prize
For their groundbreaking research on diseases of the nervous system, especially in relation to Parkinson’s disease, the husband and wife team of Drs. Guy and Kim Caldwell, of The University of Alabama, has been awarded the first HudsonAlpha Prize for Outstanding Innovation in Life Sciences.
UA Administrator Wins Prestigious Professional Award
Dr. Kathleen Cramer, senior associate vice president for student affairs at The University of Alabama, has been named a Pillar of the Profession by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
UA Faculty Member Named Health Educator of the Year
Dr. Mike Perko, chair and associate professor of health sciences in The University of Alabama College of Human Environmental Sciences, was named Health Educator of the Year by the American Association for Health Education, the oldest organization for health education in America.
UA Social Work Event to Benefit Ill Staff Member
The University of Alabama Social Work Association for Cultural Awareness is presenting a benefit concert on Thursday, April 24, from 6 p.m.-midnight at Little Willie’s in downtown Tuscaloosa.
UA French Scholar Awarded Knighthood in France’s Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Dr. Metka Zupancic, associate professor of French/modern languages at The University of Alabama, has been inducted as a knight, or chevalier, in France’s Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms).
UA’s Marino Asked to Join Premier Entrepreneurship Research Conference Review Board
Dr. Louis Marino, associate professor of entrepreneurship and strategic management, has been invited to join the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference Review Board. The conference is considered by many to be the premier entrepreneurship research conference in the world.
UA Experts Offer ‘Going Green’ Advice
This year marks the 38th anniversary of Earth Day, a worldwide movement to protect our planet, our children and our future. Environmental consciousness has become more and more heightened, from recycling newspapers and plastics to driving hybrid vehicles.
Beloved UA Professor Wilma Greene Dies
Retired University of Alabama professor Wilma Greene, who brought national prominence to UA’s fashion retailing program, died Wednesday.
Todd Receives UA Engineering’s T. Morris Hackney Leadership Award
The University of Alabama College of Engineering announced Dr. Beth Todd, associate professor of mechanical engineering, as the 2008 T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership award recipient.