Magazine Features Daniel Cram’s Sketches of the Mexican War

In the summer of 1847, young Lt. Daniel Houston Cram of New Hampshire stepped onto Mexican soil and into one of the most important but often neglected conflicts of the 19th century. During the Mexican War, 14,000 American soldiers lost their lives, as did many more Mexicans, fighting over the land that would eventually become the American southwest. Cram not only saw it firsthand as a participant, he stole moments to sketch some of the more dramatic scenes in a notebook that has been passed down through generations of his family.

The Extraordinary Frederick Augstus Porter Barnard Featured in Alabama Heritage

Former University of Alabama alumnus and president William R. Smith remembered one of his favorite professors at the Capstone, F.A.P. Barnard, as “a marvel of intellectual brilliancy and practical versatility He was conceded to be the best at whatever he attempted to do; he could turn the best sonnet, write the best love story, take the best daguerreotype picture, charm the most women, catch the most trout, and calculate the most undoubted almanac.” Bernard’s reputation as a renaissance man was well deserved, and his contributions to academia and the natural sciences in the 19th century South were enormous.

Magazine Tells of How Marie Bankhead Owen Almost Killed the WPA Guide to Alabama

In the spring of 1935, when the country was scraping out of its worst-ever depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s make-work New Deal policies were starting to take shape, the Federal Writers Project was born. When critics assailed the project designed to put unemployed writers to work, Harry Hopkins, the director of the Works Projects Administration, reportedly cut them off with a blunt, “Hell, they’ve got to eat just like other people.”

UA Engineering Professor Receives Hackney Leadership Award

Dr. Lloyd “Pete” Morley, professor and interim head of the department of electrical and computer engineering in The University of Alabama College of Engineering, has been selected as the 2000 recipient of the T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership Award.

NASA Selects UA Alumnus as Space Shuttle Pilot

NASA has selected a University of Alabama graduate as a pilot on an upcoming space shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

Diabetes Support Group to Meet Friday at UA

Adults with Type II diabetes who need to lose weight are invited to join a support group that is meeting Friday, May 12, from 11 a.m.-noon at the Capstone Medical Center carrel room on The University of Alabama campus.

Derrick Thomas: Family Members to Accept His Posthumous Degree May 13th

The University of Alabama will award former NFL linebacker, the late Derrick Thomas, his bachelor of arts degree posthumously during the Capstone’s afternoon graduation ceremony, May 13th at 1:30 p.m. at Coleman Coliseum on the UA campus in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Accepting Thomas’ degree (criminal justice, social welfare) will be his mother, Edith Morgan, and grandmother, Annie Adams.

UA Invites High School Students to Explore Engineering Career

High school students wishing to attend one of The University of Alabama Student Introduction to Engineering (SITE) summer programs must submit completed applications and recommendation letters by June 15.

Housing Affordability Index Remains High Despite Increases in Home Prices and Mortgage Rates

Despite substantial increases in home prices and rising mortgage loan rates, the statewide housing affordability index barely changed from the fourth quarter of last year, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.

Sorenson Names Committe to Support Greek System at UA

University of Alabama President Andrew Sorensen has appointed a committee of alumni and students aimed at supporting individual chapters of fraternities and sororities as they deal with such issues as facilities’ improvement and membership retention.