The University of Alabama announced today a collaborative research and licensing agreement with QRxPharma, a clinical stage specialty pharmaceutical company (ASX: QRX), whose preclinical and clinical pipeline includes technologies in the fields of pain management and central nervous system disorders.
Delta Xi Phi Multicultural Sorority Inc. recently awarded its national scholarship to a University of Alabama student who has spent the past year battling stereotypes and promoting multiculturalism.
Wenan Fei, who received his doctoral degree in economics in May from The University of Alabama, has been awarded the highly prestigious 2007 Ernst Meyer Prize by the Geneva Association for the best dissertation in the area of risk management and insurance.
Researchers in an ongoing U.S.-Cuban archaeological expedition, co-led by The University of Alabama, are attempting to learn more about the native people Christopher Columbus encountered on his first voyage to the New World.
Birmingham-based EBSCO Industries Inc. has made a $2 million gift to The University of Alabama’s “Our Students. Our Future.” capital campaign. The gift will be divided between UA’s Libraries and the Honors College.
Burt Rutan, designer of SpaceShipOne, the world’s first privately funded spacecraft, and David King, director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, will be the keynote speakers for the inaugural Gloria and John L. Blackburn Academic Symposium at The University of Alabama on Saturday, Aug. 25.
The University of Alabama’s RISE Program will hold its annual commencement ceremony Thursday, July 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the Stallings Center on the UA campus.
Melanie Miller, a staff member and administrator with a background in counseling and social work, has been named executive director of Crimson Care in the Division of Student Affairs at The University of Alabama.
Born eyeless, these small, white, almost transparent animals spend their lives underground and have diets that, seemingly, are mud-centered. Their very existence appears tenuous.
Jason Hatter, a 1998 graduate of The University of Alabama, has been named the manufacturing outreach coordinator for the Alabama Productivity Center at UA.