UA’s Alpha Chi Omega Sorority Partners with Verizon to Collect Phones for Domestic Violence Victims

Alpha Chi Omega Sorority at The University of Alabama is partnering with Verizon Wireless during October, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, to assist victims of domestic violence in Alabama and draw attention to this critical issue.

UA Entrepreneurship Program Moves Up to 18th Nationally

The undergraduate entrepreneurship program at the Culverhouse College of Commerce at The University of Alabama moved up two places to No. 18 in rankings just released by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review.

UA Business School Students Visit the Oracle of Omaha

While some students at The University of Alabama will be spending fall break at the beach or at home, some select business school students will have the rare opportunity to visit personally with Warren Buffett, the icon of the investment world.

UA Graduate School Again Ranked in Top Ten in Three Categories

The Manderson Graduate School of Business at The University of Alabama is again ranked in the top 10 in three categories in the latest rankings by The Princeton Review.

UA Begins “Philosophy Today” Lectureship Series With Moraland Political Philosopher Loren Lomasky

A nationally recognized expert on moral and political philosophy will begin the “Philosophy Today” series of public lectures at The University of Alabama Oct.16.

Top Teaching Award Winners Recognized at UA

The University of Alabama National Alumni Association has announced the 2007 recipients of the University’s highest honor for excellence in teaching, the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Awards.

UA Graduate School to Offer EMBA Degree in Huntsville

The University of Alabama will begin offering an executive MBA degree in Huntsville in July 2008.

Benefit Concert Set for UA Student Diagnosed with Cancer

A benefit concert will be held on Thursday, Oct. 18 for Josh Wimberly, a third-year doctoral student in The University of Alabama School of Social Work who was diagnosed with cancer in August.

UA School of Law and Skadden Law Firm Honor Farmworker Activist with 2007 Morris Dees Justice Award

Arthur N. Read, general counsel for Friends of Farmworkers, Inc., a legal services provider in Philadelphia, has been awarded the 2007 Morris Dees Justice Award, given by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates and The University of Alabama School of Law. Morris Dees will present the award during a reception at Skadden’s offices in New York on Nov. 15.

2007 UA Homecoming Queen Announced

Kathleen Kelley of Indianapolis, Ind., was named The University of Alabama Homecoming Queen for 2007 on Friday, Oct. 5 during UA’s annual Homecoming Pep Rally on campus.