Creek Named Director of Marketing Communications at UA
Tuscaloosa advertising executive Gary Creek has been named director of marketing communications at The University of Alabama.
Faculty & Staff
UA Safe State Director Receives First National Safety Excellence Award for Service to Small Business
Dr. William H. Weems, director of the Safe State Occupational Safety and Health Consultation Program in the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama, has been awarded the William J. Higgins award, the first national OSHA award for safety excellence in the small business community.
Deborah Hamilton Receives UA’s Miles Excellence Award
Deborah Hamilton, project manager for The University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research, has been awarded the 2005 Dr. Minnie C. Miles Endowed Excellence Award.
UA Professor Serves as President of Civil War Historian Society
Dr. George C. Rable, professor and Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at The University of Alabama, has been named president of the Society of Civil War Historians.
UA Music Professor Receives Prestigious Burnum Award
Charles G. “Skip” Snead, director of the School of Music and professor of horn in The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award.
UA Engineering’s Karr Wins T. Morris Hackney Faculty Leadership Award
The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently announced Dr. Charles Karr, associate dean for research and graduate studies, as the 2005 T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership award recipient.
Mancini Named UA Distinguished Research Professor
The University of Alabama Board of Trustees has conferred the highest honor it gives to a faculty member to Dr. Ernest A. Mancini, professor of geological sciences and director of the Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies, both in UA’s College of Arts and Sciences. Mancini has been named a University of Alabama Distinguished Research Professor by the board.
Louisville Institute Grant Presented to UA Professor of Religion and New College
Dr. Theodore Trost, an associate professor of religious studies at The University of Alabama who is cross appointed to New College, has been awarded a research grant from the Louisville Institute, a program of the Lilly Endowment Inc.
Hoover Named an Assistant Dean at UA’s Culverhouse College of Commerce
Dr. Gary A. Hoover, associate professor of economics and Harrison Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow, has been named assistant dean for faculty and graduate student development at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce. Hoover will assume his new role beginning this summer.
UA French Professor Publishes Book on Hermes and Aphrodite in Today’s Culture
Hermes and Aphrodite may be ancient Greek gods, but they are alive and well in contemporary literature and culture, according to a book edited by a University of Alabama professor who specializes in modern French literature.