UA Professor’s Book Makes Best-Seller List
A “best seller” designation wasn’t on Dr. Wayne Urban’s radar until his book made the American Educational Research Association’s Sense Publishers Top 12 Best Selling Book List for 2012.
UA Offers Summer Enrichment Workshop for Area Students
The University of Alabama College of Education’s program for gifted and talented in special education is offering its 35th annual Summer Enrichment Workshop June 11-29 at Matthews Elementary School.
A Psychological Salve: Scientists Study Mind’s Ability to Manage Pain
Researchers are helping patients tap into the healing power of the mind to give hope to persons with pain.
May Graduates Announced at UA
The University of Alabama will award some 3,778 degrees during spring commencement Friday-Saturday, May 4-5, on campus.
With Sturdy Helmet Design, UA Students Win Metalcasting Contest
For the second year in a row, a team of University of Alabama engineering students won the Student Casting Competition for the Southeast organized by the American Foundry Society. By designing and casting a helmet for soldiers, the students were exposed to leading-edge metallurgical-engineering technology.
UA Journalism Department to Become Home to National Elementary Schools Press Association
The University of Alabama journalism department and National Elementary Schools Press Association officials will hold a news conference May 10 at 1 p.m. in the Tuscaloosa Magnet School library to announce the official move of the 18-year-old association from Asheville, N.C., to Tuscaloosa.
UA MBA Candidate Uses Shrimp-Shell Compound in Efforts to Develop New Bandage
Dr. Whitney Hough is scheduled to earn her MBA from The University of Alabama this week, but she’s not looking forward to joining the business world. She’s already there.
UA Student News for May 1, 2012
Click on http://uanews.ua.edu/student to view UA Student News on UA’s website if you have problems reading the email subscription. THIS WEEK’S DATES TO REMEMBER “Inside the Tornado,” May 3-4, 7:30 p.m., and May 5, 2 p.m., Bean-Brown Theatre at Shelton State Community College Commencement — C&IS, Education, HES, Nursing, May 4, 6 p.m., Coleman Coliseum
Strawberry Festival to be Held at UA Farmers Market
Homegrown Alabama, the student-led farmers market, will host its first Strawberry Festival Thursday, May 3, from 3-6 p.m.
UA Art Student Wins Prestigious Windgate Fellowship
University of Alabama senior Adam Hill of Douglasville, Ga., has been awarded a $15,000 Windgate Fellowship from the UNC Asheville Center for Craft, Creativity & Design.