UA Math and Science Mentoring Program Wins $25,000 from Pepsi Refresh Competition

The University of Alabama Center for Ethics & Social Responsibility’s CollegeFirst Advanced Placement Mentoring Initiative will be the recipient of a $25,000 award from the Pepsi Refresh online voting competition.

UA’s Health Sciences Library Wins Grant for Disaster Information Outreach

The University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences’ Health Sciences Library has received one of only seven grants the National Library of Medicine awarded nationwide for disaster health information outreach and collaboration projects.

AQA Team Showcase Winners Announced by UA

The Alabama Quality Award panel of judges has chosen nine organizations to receive the 2011 Team Showcase awards.

UA’s Alabama Productivity Center Announces 11 AQA Winners

The Alabama Quality Award panel of judges has designated 11 organizations as recipients of the 2011 Alabama Quality Awards, honoring them for quality and performance excellence.

UA Theatre Professor Continues Research in Cuba

Seth Panitch, University of Alabama associate professor of theatre, will lead a group of UA graduate students to Havana, Cuba, later this month to stage a production of American playwright Christopher Durang’s “Beyond Therapy.”

UA Student News for Nov. 8, 2011

Click on http://uanews.ua.edu/student to view UA Student News on UA’s website if you have problems reading the email subscription. ANNOUNCEMENTS A forum to present the concepts for the 2012 Campus Master Plan to the UA community will be held Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 5:30 p.m. in 133 Lloyd Hall. More information: Dan Wolfe at dwolfe@fa.ua.edu.

Alabama Is Home to More Than 400,000 Veterans, According to UA Data Center

The nation is preparing to observe Veterans Day 2011, and among those to be honored are more than 400,000 Alabamians, according to Annette Watters, manager of the Alabama State Data Center at The University of Alabama.

COE Does ART Presents ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)’

The University of Alabama’s College of Engineering Does Amateur Radical Theater, or COE Does ART, will stage “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” the weekend of Nov. 11.

Quidditch on the Quad Returns to UA

Quidditch on the Quad returns to The University of Alabama Sunday, Nov. 13, under the auspices of UA’s Creative Campus in collaboration with University Recreation.

Crimson Couch to 5K Event to be Held at UA

More than 800 people are expected to participate in the Crimson Couch to 5K Walk/Run Event Sunday, Nov. 13, at The University of Alabama.