UA Business School Names Chair of Ethics
An internationally recognized professor of management, Dr. K. Michele Kacmar, has been named to the Durr-Fillauer Chair of Business Ethics at The University of Alabama business school.
UA Historian Awarded Grant to Complete Bay of Pigs Book
A University of Alabama history professor who is an expert on the John F. Kennedy administration has been awarded a one-year $30,000 grant to assist in the completion of his book on the Bay of Pigs.
UA Announces Cable Network Partnership: WVUA-7 and WOTM TV-19 will Televise UA Sports
The University of Alabama’s WVUA-7 Tuscaloosa and WOTM TV-19 Birmingham have agreed to a partnership that will offer the best in televised Alabama sports programming to Central and North Alabama.
UA Engineering Professor Wins National Award
Dr. Paul S. Ray, associate professor of industrial engineering at The University of Alabama, recently received the national Educator of the Year award from the System Safety Society. Ray accepted the award at the 22nd annual System Safety Society Conference in Providence, R.I.
UA’s University Medical Center Hosts Community-Wide Open House
The University of Alabama’s University Medical Center will host a community-wide open house on Aug. 22 from 2:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. The new facility is located in the new School of Medicine building at the corner of University Boulevard and Fifth Avenue East.
Alabama Governor’s Safety and Health Conference Sponsored by UA Continuing Studies
The University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies is sponsoring the 17th Annual Alabama Governor’s Safety and Health Conference Aug. 30-Sept. 1 at the Perdido Beach Resort in Orange Beach. This year’s conference theme is “Safety and Health — Make a Commitment.”
UA Student Receives Prestigious Scripps-Howard Internship
University of Alabama student Chris Otts, a journalism major from Kenner, La., was recently selected to participate in the prestigious Scripps-Howard Foundation’s Semester in Washington program this fall.
UA Psychologist Develops Test of Juvenile Offenders’ Risk, Maturity and Treatment Responsiveness
Court authorities often struggle to balance protecting society with appropriate treatment for youth who commit crimes, says a University of Alabama professor who authored a newly published psychological test that measures key juvenile concepts and assists professionals in achieving that balance.
Martian Minerals
Looking at rocks in Idaho might not be the first place that comes to mind in searching for clues to whether life exists on Mars, but that’s where The University of Alabama’s Dr. Eric Roden expects to begin his quest in November.
For First Time, UA RISE Alum Receives Outstanding Volunteer Award
Jake Craft of Aliceville, an alumnus of The University of Alabama RISE Program, the nationally renowned early intervention program for preschoolers with disabilities, received the Program’s Allison Harbin Outstanding Teenage Volunteer Award.