UA Archaeologists to Continue Unearthing Tabasco Birthplace

A University of Alabama-led archaeological team has begun its second phase of an excavation of the original factory where Tabasco brand pepper sauce was first produced in the mid- to late 1860s.

UA College of Nursing, Capstone Medical Center to Bring Health Care to Parrish Residents

For the past 17 months, Parrish residents have been without local health care, but that’s expected to change next week when a new health center, operated by The University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing and UA’s Capstone Medical Center, will open in the rural Walker County town.

UA Business Professors Take Top Prize in Finance Journal

An article written for the Journal of Financial Research by two faculty members at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration has been awarded the journal’s top prize as “Best Article” for 2000.

UA Cited as One of Nation’s ‘Best Colleges for the Real World’

The University of Alabama has been cited as one of the nation’s “best colleges for the real world” in a new collegiate guide aimed at rating colleges on their ability to help students “get in, get out and get a job.”

Alabama EPSCoR Awarded $9 Million from National Science Foundation

The Alabama Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research was recently awarded a grant of $9 million from the National Science Foundation, to be distributed over a three-year period.

Golf Tourney Hosted by UA Alumni Chapter to Raise Money for Scholarships

A golf tournament fund-raiser to enable future Tallahassee, Fla., residents to attend The University of Alabama on a scholarship is set for Saturday, June 2, at the Capital City Club in Tallahassee, Fla.

UA College of Nursing Honors Executive with Leadership Award

The University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing honored a nurse who has devoted her professional life to caring for others, including the countless patients she’s treated at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tuscaloosa during her more than 25 years of VA service.

UA Health Center Director to Receive National Award

Connie Diggs, director of The University of Alabama’s Russell Student Health Center, will receive the American College Health Association’s Hannibal E. Howell Award on Wednesday, May 30, at the association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas.

New Census Numbers Paint Complicated and Changing Picture of State’s Families

The latest release of data by the U.S. Census Bureau paints a complicated and changing picture of the Alabama family. For the first time, families with two parents and one or more children under 18 – usually considered the “traditional” family – make up less than a quarter of all households in Alabama.

South Alabama Residents Among UA Graduates

The University of Alabama awarded some 2,292 degrees at spring commencement exercises held Saturday, May 19, in Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.