UA in the News: March 27-29, 2010

Creative Campus hosts storytelling festival – UA professor helps organize Community Partnership Festival – Druid City Arts Festival livens up former CityFest lot – Pulitzer Prize winner, UA alumnus E.O. Wilson to speak on campus – UA faculty provide expert commentary on healthcare reform, raises for state legislators, Toyota turnaround – UA events – and more…

Fridley Receives UA Engineering’s Hackney Leadership Award

The University of Alabama College of Engineering announced Dr. Kenneth J. Fridley, professor and head of civil, construction and environmental engineering, as the 2010 T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership award recipient.

Noland Awarded UA Engineering Outstanding Alumni Volunteer Award

The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently awarded Jonathan Noland with the 2010 Outstanding Alumni Volunteer Award.

UA Honors Seven Distinguished Engineering Fellows

The University of Alabama College of Engineering honored seven alumni of the College by inducting them into its class of 2010 Distinguished Engineering Fellows.

Some Areas of State Changing Considerably, Census Shows

The populations of three areas of Alabama seem to be undergoing considerable social change, judging from population estimates just released for 2009.

UA Honors the Fourth Group of Coca-Cola First Generation Scholars

Through the Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship program, a select group of UA students have been given the opportunity to be the first in their families to earn a college degree.

UA Presents Full-Length ‘Cinderella’ Ballet

The University of Alabama department of theatre and dance presents the Sergei Prokofiev ballet “Cinderella” from Monday, March 29, to Saturday, April 3, at the Gallaway Theatre in Rowand-Johnson Hall in the UA Theatre District.

UA in the News: March 26, 2010

MBA students’ place second in international competition – UA education professor comments on community college funding – UA events

UA Professor Collaborates to Produce Louisiana French Dictionary

Dr. Michael A. Picone, professor of French and linguistics at The University of Alabama, serves as an assistant editor on a dictionary that preserves French as spoken in Louisiana.

PR Program at UA Ranked Among Top Education Programs by PRWeek Magazine

The public relations program at The University of Alabama is ranked second in the nation according to new rankings produced and published in PRWeek Magazine. UA is the highest ranked university that offers both graduate and undergraduate programs.