NPR Personalities Here for WUAL’s 25th Anniversary at UA

NPR (National Public Radio) show hosts Debbie Elliott and Robert Siegel will be special guests for an anniversary event to celebrate 25 years of The University of Alabama’s WUAL public radio station broadcasting in Tuscaloosa and West Alabama.

Existing Home Sales Drop in State, According to UA Center

Home sales in Alabama declined by almost 10 percent from October sales of 4,676 units to 4,234 in November of 2006, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.

UA Alumni Magazine Wins Top Creative Honor

The Alabama Alumni Magazine, a publication of The University of Alabama’s National Alumni Association, recently received a platinum award in the MarCom Creative Awards for its spring 2006 issue.

MJW Offers Taste of UA Life, Lots of Real-World Journalism

This summer, 25 high school journalism students will live on campus and learn from top educators and journalists during the 24th annual Multicultural Journalism Workshop scheduled for July 8-18 on The University of Alabama campus.

UA Grad to Receive Diploma After 68 Years

Molly Mercer Lynch, who was forced to withdraw from The University of Alabama during her last semester as a student in 1938, will return to campus Wednesday, Jan. 17 to receive her diploma.

UA Center for Ethics Launches Course to Assist Low-Income Families With Income Tax Filing

More than 80 trained, IRS-certified undergraduate, graduate and law students from The University of Alabama are providing free income tax preparation services and financial literacy information to low-income families in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham this tax season.

Brown Bag Lecture to Focus on Spike Lee Film

The Women’s Resource Center and the department of women’s studies at The University of Alabama are hosting a Brown Bag Lecture Wednesday, Jan 24 at 12:30 p.m. in 107 Manly Hall.

Poets Jean Valentine and Martha Collins to Give Readings as Part of UA’s 2007 Bankhead Visiting Writers Series

Poets Jean Valentine and Martha Collins will give readings Thursday, Jan. 18 at the Bama Theatre on Greensboro Ave., at 7:30 p.m., as part of The University of Alabama Bankhead Visiting Writers Series.

UA Men Take a Stand Against Violence With White Ribbon Pledge

Students, faculty and staff at The University of Alabama will take part in an international effort to take a stand opposing violence against women by joining the White Ribbon Campaign Jan. 22-26.

Discover, Archaeology Magazines Rank Discovery by UA Researcher Among Top Findings of 2006

Determining a 2,900-year-old artifact contained the oldest writing ever known in the Americas is one of the top science findings of 2006, according to two prominent science publications which cite the earlier discovery by a group of archaeologists, including a University of Alabama researcher, in their current issues.