UA Student Takes Top Theater Honors

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.

UA Engineers Without Borders Continues Community Service With Hale County

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.

UA Students to Spend Spring Break Helping Others

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.

Corporate Citizenship Panel to be Held at UA

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.

UA SAE Recognized as Outstanding Collegiate Branch

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.

UA Names Alabama Power Foundation Endowed Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering

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.

UA Engineering Professor Receives OSHA Certification

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.

Engineering Professor Honored as SME Distinguished Member

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.

UA Panhellenic Association Gains Two New Sororities

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.

Nobel Prize Winner to Discuss Electronics Developments During UA Talk

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.