Volunteer Expo Lets UA Students Explore Ways to Help the Community
The University of Alabama Community Service Center is hosting the 2012 Volunteer Expo on Wednesday, Sept. 5.
The University of Alabama Community Service Center is hosting the 2012 Volunteer Expo on Wednesday, Sept. 5.
Hoping to inspire girls to consider engineering, The University of Alabama section of the Society of Women Engineers, or SWE, will host close to 200 middle-school girls in a day-long event of activities.
The University Medical Center’s Diabetes Self-Management Education Program, part of The University of Alabama, has earned national recognition from the American Diabetes Association for providing high-quality education services to patients. The program recently received the Education Recognition Award.
Sean Hudson, a senior social work major at The University of Alabama, recently won the Influencing State Policy national essay award for his advocacy of the proposed Alabama state bill “Fostering Success Act.”
“Workforce Training in a Recovering Economy,” released by the Education Policy Center at The University of Alabama, details the perceptions of state officials across the nation who are responsible for coordination and supervision of community colleges.
Dr. E.O. Wilson, a University of Alabama alumnus and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is widely considered one of the world’s most influential scientists, will visit UA as a scholar-in-residence with the College of Arts and Sciences Sept. 11-12.
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Citizen scientists enthralled by photographs of unusual galaxies posted online triggered a University of Alabama professor to use NASA’s famed Hubble Space Telescope to further analyze the space oddities.
A Tuscaloosa-based surgeon’s theory related to chronic pain is likely headed for a clinical trial early next year, and it’s drawing support from a University of Alabama researcher who studies how viruses replicate.
Click on http://uanews.ua.edu/student to view UA Student News on UA’s website if you have problems reading the email subscription. TODAY Convocation for new students, 6 p.m., Foster Auditorium THIS WEEK’S DATES TO REMEMBER Week of Welcome, Aug. 21-30 Homegrown Alabama Farmers Market, Aug. 23, 3-6 p.m., Canterbury Episcopal Chapel’s lawn at corner of Hackberry Lane