Twenty rising high school seniors from across the state will be heading to the Capstone for a week of hands-on experience at an academy hosted by The University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing, giving high school students first-hand insight into the fastest growing profession in the United States.
“Vroom, vroom:” is the sound University of Alabama Society of Automotive Engineers members love to hear when they rev the engine of their Formula SAE car. Recently, 20 mechanical engineering students participated in an international competition in Detroit, Mich.
Former University of Alabama All-American and Baltimore Ravens executive Ozzie Newsome will return to Tuscaloosa June 18-19 as the honorary chair of the fourth annual Bridge Builder Celebrity Golf Classic, scheduled for the Ol’ Colony Golf Course.
The Society for Military History recently presented its 2004 Distinguished Book Award in American History to a book written by Dr. George Rable, a University of Alabama history professor.
A University of Alabama mechanical engineering student team won first place at the East Coast Human Powered Vehicle Challenge, a regional competition held at the University of Florida.
Experts with The University of Alabama’s Alabama Museum of Natural History will lead a team of youth and adult explorers to excavate the remains of Fort Toulouse in Wetumpka, in four sessions, June 6-30.
While this month’s announcement of the federal reopening of a 1955 racially charged murder case is drawing national media attention, a University of Alabama history professor who audio taped interviews with key case witnesses says he’s skeptical renewed interest will bring justice.
Dr. Philip D. Beidler, professor of English at The University of Alabama and armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, says he sees less and less of the common soldier’s hard-won perspective in what America has since made of that war.
A University of Alabama geographer is monitoring the Gulf of Mexico’s water quality from a few hundred miles inland. In fact, with some assistance from a satellite orbiting some 438 miles above the Pensacola, Fla. area, he can measure the water’s ever changing quality from his office on the UA campus.
The University of Alabama Chapter of Order of Omega national Greek honor society recognized top students of 2003-2004 for their academic achievement and leadership.