State’s Housing Market Shows March Strength, According to UA’s Real Estate Center Stats
The Alabama housing market showed remarkable strength in March with 4,672 homes sold, up 60.9 percent over the previous month, according to figures from the Real Estate Education and Research Center at The University of Alabama.
UA African-American Alumni Association Presents Awards, Supports UA Scholarship Fund
The University of Alabama African-American Alumni Association recently honored a group of outstanding alumni and raised $25,000 to endow a scholarship for a minority student at an Alumni Scholarship Breakfast and reunion held recently in Tuscaloosa.
UA College of Engineering Names New Capstone Engineering Society Director
The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently named Angelia Knight as the Capstone Engineering Society director.
Former UA Professor Named Dean of UA College of Education
Dr. James McLean, a former professor of education at The University of Alabama, has been named dean of UA’s College of Education.
UA Mechanical Engineering Students Compete in a Human Powered Vehicle
Like to ride bicycles? What about human powered vehicles? At first, they might appear to be a different version of the bicycle, and two mechanical engineering student teams from The University of Alabama will test their vehicles in the American Society of Mechanical Engineering East Coast Human Powered Vehicle Challenge on May 7-9 in Gainesville, Fla.
UA CCSO Presents Spring Awards
The University of Alabama Coordinating Council for Student Organizations (CCSO) recently held the 18th annual Student Organization Awards Banquet to recognize outstanding contributions of student organizations, members, officers and advisers.
UA Journalism Department Publishes New Edition of Dateline Alabama In•Print
The University of Alabama journalism department will distribute the second edition of Dateline Alabama In•Print, a student-produced feature magazine, in May.
Comfort Found Amid Childhood Pain Helps Lead UA Graduate to Nursing Career
Melissa Allen has never wanted her sometimes painful, incurable disease to define her life, but the compassionate nursing care she received as a frightened, hospitalized child helped crystallize her career choice. Within a week of her graduation from The University of Alabama on May 10, this 22-year-old woman is scheduled to begin her nursing career in the special care unit of Children’s Hospital in Birmingham.
From Harry Potter to Politics – UA Interim Program Offers Creative Courses
From studying the effects of baseball on the American culture to experiencing political life in Montgomery to exploring the literary phenomenon of Harry Potter, The University of Alabama Interim Program will once again provide interesting opportunities for students to earn college credit for courses not normally taught during the traditional school year.