The Census Bureau has revised its previous estimate of Alabama’s 2009 Hispanic population upward by nearly 18,000, according to the State Data Center at The University of Alabama.
Twelve Alabama high school students are experiencing a slice of college life on The University of Alabama campus this week as part of the 2010 SUPER Emerging Scholars summer institute.
The German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has selected a University of Alabama professor for its Humboldt Research Award.
The University of Alabama has received more than $2 million in funding from The Bernard Osher Foundation for the foundation’s signature programs: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Osher Reentry Scholarship Program.
A record 10 University of Alabama students have been named to USA Today’s 2010 All-USA College Academic Team. Once again, UA led the nation with the most students on the team, and set a record for the most students any university has ever placed on the team in a single year. UA students Alan Blinder, Connor Johnson, Kendra Key, Dana Lewis, Joy Driver Aldridge, Richard Cockrum, Susan DeLeon, Amy Frees, Kalen Berry and Rebecca Long were named to the team.
Allison Hetzel, assistant professor of theatre and dance at The University of Alabama, will present her one-woman show “Considering Georgia O’Keeffe” in July at the East to Edinburgh Festival in New York City and in August at Scotland’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, one of the top theater festivals in the world.
The University of Alabama has been awarded a U.S. Department of Energy grant totaling more than $4.85 million for a multidisciplinary project that will characterize geologic formations for carbon dioxide storage in Alabama.
The University of Alabama announced today that an interdisciplinary research team has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Two University of Alabama professors have received a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research grant to research environmental clean-up solutions for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Dr. Yuping Bao, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at The University of Alabama, has been named a recipient of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities.