UA in the News: April 10, 2012

UA undergraduates do research through Emerging Scholars Program – Presidential search begins – Art history professor to retire after 40 years – UA theatre professor to direct his own play in New York – Design students turn trash into fashion – and more…

UA Engineering Professor Receives Metallurgical Award

Dr. Ramana Reddy, ACIPCO Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at The University of Alabama, was recently named the recipient of a distinguished service award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

UA-housed APR Wins National Journalism Award

The University of Alabama’s APR news team has been named one of 10 radio winners for the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award.

The Coca-Cola Foundation Honors UA Scholarship Students

The Coca-Cola Foundation recently awarded scholarships to a select group of University of Alabama students, providing them with the opportunity to be the first in their families to earn a college degree.

UA’s Garner Named to Top Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Post

Margaret P. Garner, associate professor in The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences, has been named director-at-large for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, formerly the American Dietetic Association.

UA Journalism Professor, Pulitzer Prize Winner Rick Bragg Wins 2012 Last Lecture Award

University of Alabama journalism professor Rick Bragg will give the 2012 Last Lecture, titled “So People Won’t Forget,” at 6 p.m. Monday, April 23.

UA in the News: April 7-9, 2012

UA School of Law a top stop for U.S. Supreme Court justices – UA plans day of service in memory of tornado victims – Shaq directs public service announcement at UA – UA experts comment on protecting right to protest, community college tuition, population growth in Baldwin County – Sororities host fundraiser to fight cancer – and more…

UA Theatre Professor to Take Production of His Play to New York

Seth Panitch, associate professor of theatre and head of the Master of Fine Arts/Bachelor of Arts acting programs at The University of Alabama, will direct an Actors Equity Association Showcase production of his comedy “Hell: Paradise Found” in July at the 59E59 Theatre in New York.

Civil War Historian to Receive UA’s Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award

Noted Civil War scholar Dr. George C. Rable, the Charles Grayson Summersell Chair in Southern History at The University of Alabama, will receive the 2011 Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award.

UA’s Moody Gallery Features Works from Permanent Collection

The University of Alabama’s Sarah Moody Gallery of Art will present the exhibit “Commingling Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection” from Thursday, April 12 to Friday, June 22.