UA Community Director Receives Prestigious Award

Amanda Wallace, community director in Housing and Residential Communities at The University of Alabama, was recently selected as recipient of the William Leftwich Award for Outstanding New Professional in NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Region III.

UA Club to Discuss Book on Southern Women

The Every Woman Book Club, sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center at The University of Alabama, will meet on Thursday, June 28 at noon at The Globe Restaurant to discuss “All Out of Faith, Southern Women on Spirituality,” edited by Wendy Reed and Jennifer Horne.

Statewide Conference on Service Learning and Poverty to be Held at UA

The University of Alabama Center for Ethics & Social Responsibility, the Alabama Poverty Project, Impact: An Alabama Student Service Initiative and the UAB Center for Urban Affairs are co-sponsoring “To Whom Much is Given,” a statewide conference on service learning in higher education, Sept. 27-28 at the Bryant Conference Center in Tuscaloosa.

UA Invited to Join Elite Outreach Group

The University of Alabama has been invited to join an elite national organization that recognizes the University’s achievements in outreach scholarship.

Alabama Quality Award Pre-Applications Due June 29 to UA Center

Teams interested in applying for the 2007 Alabama Quality Award Team Showcase must submit a pre-application form to The University of Alabama’s Alabama Productivity Center by June 29.

Lean Accounting Conference Registration Deadline June 22; UA’s Productivity Center Hosts

The deadline to register for the Lean Accounting Conference, hosted by the Alabama Productivity Center/Alabama Technology Network at The University of Alabama, is June 22.

UA’s Williams Elected to Health Care Leadership Team

Dr. Eric S. Williams, associate professor of healthcare management at the Culverhouse College of Commerce at The University of Alabama, has been elected to the leadership team of the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management.

UA Receives Scholarship Gift from Sale of Rare Ferrari

The University of Alabama has received a gift of more than $1 million from Tuscaloosa resident Darrell Westfaul through a charitable remainder unitrust funded with his 1950 Ferrari. The prized car, with the serial number 0046M and a Zagato body, was sold to a collector who plans to open a museum. The remainder funds in the trust will eventually create the Darrell Oliver Westfaul Endowed Scholarship.

16 Percent of Alabamians Live in Hurricane Counties, According to UA’s State Data Center, NOAA

Let’s test your Alabama geography knowledge. How many coastal counties does the state have?

UA Museum Expedition to Excavate Apparent Site of Former Slave Quarters at Tannehill

Slave labor helped power a near half-century of pre Civil War iron making at Tannehill. Now, in an effort to learn more about these men, women and children who helped build and operate the iron works, a team of explorers will excavate what’s believed to be the former site of 15 of their homes during an archaeology camp hosted by The University of Alabama’s Alabama Museum of Natural History.