UA Student Team Wins Dow Big Data Challenge
A University of Alabama student team from the Culverhouse College of Commerce recently won first place in the 2016 Dow Big Data Challenge.
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President Bell Announces Four Pillars of UA’s New Strategic Plan
President Stuart R. Bell announced the four pillars of The University of Alabama’s new strategic plan at a meeting with faculty and staff this afternoon.
UA Engineering Alumni Honor Outstanding Senior
Stephen Peter Rowe, a senior at The University of Alabama, recently received the 2016 Capstone Engineering Society Outstanding Senior Award.
UA Engineering Student Receives Prestigious Hertz Fellowship
Sarah McFann, a University of Alabama senior from Arlington, Tennessee, has received an elite Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship for 2016. McFann is the first UA student to be named a recipient of the award, which has been presented to fewer than 1,200 students in its 53 year history.
2 UA Students Named Truman Scholars for 2016
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation has named two University of Alabama students — Ciara Malaugh, of Huntsville, and Dana Sweeney, of Kingsland, Georgia, — as Truman Scholars for 2016.
Bonner, Parker Named 2016 UA Distinguished Alumni
The University of Alabama National Alumni Association has named the recipients of its top awards. The 2016 Distinguished Alumna Award winner is Dr. Judy Bonner, of Tuscaloosa, and the 2016 Distinguished Alumnus Award winner is Tim Parker, of Tuscaloosa.
UA’s Spears Named 2016 Recipient of Buford Peace Award
Dr. Ellen Griffith Spears, associate professor in New College and the department of American Studies at The University of Alabama, is the 2016 winner of the Buford Peace Award.
UA’s Documenting Justice Course to Screen Films at Bama Theatre
The University of Alabama Center for Ethics & Social Responsibility and the UA department of telecommunication & film will host the 10th Annual Documenting Justice film screening at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, at the Bama Theatre in downtown Tuscaloosa. The screening is free and open to the public. The five short documentaries that will premiere were created by non-film majors who dedicated a year to learning how to document and analyze culture and social experience – and communicate about issues of justice and injustice in Alabama – through videography.
Three Innovative Teams Win UA Business Plan Competition
Three University of Alabama student teams are on their way to starting their own businesses after winning the Culverhouse College of Commerce’s third annual Edward K. Aldag Jr. Business Plan Competition.
UA’s Huxford Symphony Orchestra, University Singers Present ‘Elijah’
The story of Elijah, one of the greatest prophets of the Bible, will be told through the conjoined sound of song and classical instruments in the “Huxford Symphony Orchestra and University Singers Present Elijah” concert April 21, 7:30 p.m. at The University of Alabama’s Moody Music Hall.