The University of Alabama’s MBA program took second place in a prestigious international competition for its analysis of a particularly complex case on the World Bank. This is the fourth year the UA team has entered the competition and has placed in the top 10 three of the four years.
The presidents and head football coaches of traditional rivals The University of Alabama and Auburn University joined Wednesday to announce the formation of the Alabama-Auburn Alliance in support of fair funding for higher education.
The University of Alabama National Alumni Association (NAA) recently named the recipients for the 2001 Distinguished Alumni Awards and 2001 Alumni Student Awards.
The University of Alabama will honor scholarship and leadership among students and faculty with annual Honors Week activities on campus April 16-20.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center plans to sponsor a rally and a march for the “Take Back the Night” program on Wednesday, April 11.
Alabama’s Black Belt was once awash in cotton, and every fall the planters who grew it would come to town to do business. In the Black Belt, town often meant Demopolis. Situated at the confluence of the Black Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, Demopolis has had a storied history, one that arcs and dips with that of the society and economics of the region around it. And, after considerable challenge and some hardship, it thrives today.
In these days of revolutionary advances in both our medicine and in our understanding of the nature of disease, it is easy to forget that less than 100 years ago, the germ theory was in its infancy, the Food and Drug Administration was merely a glint in FDR’s eye, and trips to the doctor were likely to make patients sicker.
Budd Schulberg, author of the classic novel What Makes Sammy Run? and the screenplay for On the Waterfront, described his friend William Spratling this way: “[He was] not only My Most Unforgettable Character, but My Five Most Unforgettable Characters.”
Ray Davis’ story is like that of thousands of other American boys sent off to fight for democracy and freedom in the greatest war of the twentieth century.
For the third consecutive year, The University of Alabama School of Law has been ranked among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s new 2002 listing of the “Best Graduate Schools.”