A group of 12 talented students from The University of Alabama department of theatre and dance recently participated in the Region IV Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival with one UA student taking a top award.
When residents of Hale County realized their community did not have a recreational field equipped for their children to play baseball, they called The University of Alabama’s Engineers Without Borders for help. When members of the community were being billed hundreds of dollars for water they never received because of faulty pipes or leaks in their homes, EWB was there.
For many students across the country, spring break is spent at the beach working on a tan, but a group of University of Alabama students will spend their spring break as volunteers helping less fortunate people in another country.
The University of Alabama Manderson Graduate School of Business, in partnership with Net Impact, Randall-Reilly Publishing and the UA Community Service Center, will sponsor the second annual Corporate Citizenship Panel on Wednesday, March 12, from 1-2 p.m. in 30 Alston Hall.
The University of Alabama Society of Automotive Engineers chapter was recently recognized as the SAE International 2007 Honeywell Outstanding Collegiate Branch for Class Three. The chapter will be presented with a certificate and a monetary prize during the SAE 2008 World Congress Faculty Advisors Committee Meeting in April.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently named Dr. Susan L. Burkett as the Alabama Power Foundation Endowed Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Paul S. Ray, professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at The University of Alabama, recently passed the final examination for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for Construction Industry.
Dr. Ramana G. Reddy, ACIPCO Professor and head of the department of metallurgical and materials engineering at The University of Alabama, was recently recognized as one of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration’s 2008 Distinguished Members.
The University of Alabama Panhellenic Association is welcoming two sororities to campus. Alpha Phi Sorority will colonize this fall and Delta Gamma Sorority will colonize in fall 2010.
The 2007 Nobel Prize winner in physics will discuss recent electronics developments springing from the discovery for which he was awarded the prize during a March 7 talk hosted by The University of Alabama’s MINT Center and department of physics and astronomy.