First impressions are crucial, yet not all students have the resources to afford business attire. The UA Student Government Association initiative, Suiting Your Needs, will provide students with suits and other business apparel to put them one step closer to securing a job or internship.
The University of Alabama Crossroads Community Center invites the campus and community to participate in a variety of events throughout February during African-American Heritage Month.
On weekends, University of Alabama graduate student Jonathan Stone is the lead guitarist for a rock band, but Monday through Friday he can be found in a lab conducting scientific research focused on predicting the timing and scale of a volcanic eruption.
The Central Analytical Facility at The University of Alabama has named Drs. Karen T. Henry and Robert A. Morris as the first CAF Instrumentation Experts.
The University of Alabama Opera Theatre won second and third place in the 2011 Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition at the annual convention of the National Opera Association on Jan. 6.
Literacy is the Edge, a student advocacy group at The University of Alabama, recruited some 1,134 volunteers through a two-week campaign launched during the fall semester with the goal of fighting functional illiteracy.
UA’s Alabama Museum of Natural History will host a screening of “Ghost Bird,” the documentary by Scott Crocker, at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, in room 205 of Smith Hall on The University of Alabama campus.
Dr. Vincent Odamtten, professor of English at Hamilton College, will deliver the first Dr. Robert Milton Young Memorial Lecture in African American Literary and Cultural Theory at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, in 205 Gorgas Library on The University of Alabama campus.
Dr. Richard A. Diehl, a University of Alabama archaeologist specializing in MesoAmerica, has been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow.
In the new book, “God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War,” Dr. George C. Rable, Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at The University of Alabama, examines how Americans used their faith to explain and deal with the enormous costs of the Civil War.