After a year of congressional battles over health-care bills, President Barack Obama will become more proactive in sending his own legislation to Congress, a UA political scientist predicts.
“There is,” says Dr. Benton Gup, “only one way that interest rates can go in the future, and that is up: They are going to increase.”
The vice president and associate director of research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta will address “The Fed and the Post-Crisis Economy” at the Economic Outlook Conference 2010, presented by a University of Alabama center, Thursday, Jan. 14 at the Renaissance Montgomery hotel.
Ten years ago, faculty members in The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences carved out a home for exceptional students, broad-minded professors and small, seminar-style classes that dared to cross intellectual boundaries.
Dr. Carol Prickett, professor of music therapy and music education at The University of Alabama, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Music Therapy Association.
Twenty years ago, history beckoned to Dr. David Michelson. Michelson, then 14, was living with his family in Bucharest, Romania. When Romanians took to the streets in protest of the ruling regime in late December, Michelson’s father took him out to see history unfold first-hand.
The University of Alabama won the 2009 Beat Auburn Beat Hunger Food Drive by collecting 175,653 pounds of food to top Auburn University’s collection of 164,034 pounds of food.
Dr. Wahnee Sherman, a specialist in student services, has been named director of The University of Alabama Community Service Center.
A professor at The University of Alabama is the editor-in-chief of the recently published Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience. The massive 330 entry, two-volume work has been called “a seminal work of impeccable scholarship” by Internet Bookwatch.
The University of Alabama Community Service Center’s 2009 Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive concludes this week with Brown’s Corner Dueling Piano Bar hosting a benefit at 9 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19, the last day of the drive.