Millard Fuller, founder and president of Habitat for Humanity International, will be the featured speaker for The University of Alabama’s winter commencement ceremonies Saturday, Dec. 18 at Coleman Coliseum on the UA campus.
Court authorities often struggle to balance protecting society with appropriate treatment for youth who commit crimes. A University of Alabama professor recently authored a psychological test that measures key juvenile concepts and assists professionals in achieving that balance.
The University of Alabama Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team will perform at halftime of the UA men’s basketball game against Temple on Saturday, Dec. 11, at 6 p.m. in Coleman Coliseum.
Shelby County, Alabama’s fastest growing county, can now add another superlative to its bragging list: In the poverty estimates released Monday by the Census Bureau for the year 2002, Shelby County is the only county in Alabama that doesn’t have double-digit poverty rates, according to the State Data Center at The University of Alabama.
Courtney Sanders, a University of Alabama student from Corner, has been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for the spring semester to study in Egypt at the American University in Cairo.
Learning about degree requirements, class schedules and campus technology just got easier for students at The University of Alabama.
The opening of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park, the nation’s 12th and newest Presidential Library, had a special Alabama flair to it, thanks to the work of Michael Eady, a University of Alabama senior public relations major from Birmingham (zip code 35124) who contributed as assistant to the deputy director of the Clinton Foundation.
A court in Maryland recently ruled that a homeowners association’s ban on parking pick-up trucks in their community was unenforceable. A lot of Alabama residents would applaud that decision, because Alabamians love their trucks.
The University of Alabama’s Dr. Beth Todd, associate professor of mechanical engineering, recently received the 2004 Student Section Advisor by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Todd was honored with the top national award at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress in Anaheim, Calif.
The family of the late Fred Gordon Bostick Jr. has established the Fred and Martha Bostick Endowed Support Fund for Faculty Excellence at The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.