Analyzing Alabama and national fatal crash data during Thanksgiving week, University of Alabama researchers found common factors in fatal crashes throughout the year are exaggerated by the activity of Thanksgiving week.
Dr. Amelia K. Ward, professor of biological sciences at The University of Alabama, has been elected to a prestigious position with the National Ecological Observatory Network.
Applications for Ignite UA, a community-building program offered by First Year Experience at The University of Alabama are being accepted through Monday, Nov. 19.
Dr. Robert Mellown’s research into the architecture of The University of Alabama has uncovered 180 years of campus designers’ and builders’ plans and dreams.
Continuing efforts to introduce computer science to high school students, a $1 million grant was awarded to Dr. Jeff Gray, associate professor of computer science in The University of Alabama College of Engineering, to train teachers in a new computer-science course and future College Board AP exam.
Honors students at The University of Alabama will hold a chess match Thursday, Nov. 15, from 3:30-6:30 p.m. for Tuscaloosa-area children who play the game as part of a team or club through their schools or other organizations.
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 Scholarship awareness forum, 6 p.m., 226 Lloyd Hall THIS WEEK’S DATES TO REMEMBER RA interest sessions, various times and locations Beat Auburn Beat Hunger, daily through Nov. 16 Great American Smokeout, daily through Nov. 15
The University of Alabama will hold a grand opening for the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs on Friday, Nov. 16, from 2-4 p.m. in 1 B.B. Comer as the closing highlight of Veterans Week events on campus.
Photographer Chip Cooper, a faculty member in The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences, will participate in the Miami Book Fair International this month alongside a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer noted for photographing celebrities.
The University of Alabama College of Human Environmental Sciences honored faculty member Dr. Jason Scofield with the 2012 Joseph S. Rowland Teaching Excellence Award.