A Cleaner Start
A clean tech company is working with University of Alabama’s Associate Professor Marcus Ashford to help improve fuel economy while also reducing environmentally harmful exhaust emissions.
UA Offers Online Degree Programs for Military Personnel
As a member of our nation’s armed forces, you know the importance of training and preparation down to the smallest details. And now that you can earn your college degree online at The University of Alabama from anywhere in the world, you’ll be armed and ready for the mission ahead, knowing always the Crimson Tide has your back.
Notes from Alabama – Malone-Hood Plaza Dedication
The University of Alabama recently dedicated the Malone-Hood Plaza and Autherine Lucy Clock Tower in honor of UA’s first three African-American students. Hear what a current UA student has to say about the event.
Dedication of Malone-Hood Plaza and Autherine Lucy Clock Tower
The University of Alabama paid tribute to Autherine Lucy Foster, James Hood and the late Vivian Malone Jones, the three African-American students whose enrollment represented UA’s first steps toward desegregation, at the dedication of the Malone-Hood Plaza and Autherine Lucy Clock Tower at Foster Auditorium on Nov. 3.
Notes from Alabama – Outdoor Action 2010
Some 50 UA Honors Students worked at a local organic farm and participated in a discussion about the benefits of organic farming during this year’s Outdoor Action service-learning program.
Notes from Alabama – Getting Spiritual
UA students were able to meet representatives from various spiritual traditions and congregations at the Get Involved, Get Spiritual event sponsored by the UA Office of Student Involvement and Leadership.
Notes from Alabama – Alabama Action 2010
Over 100 UA honors students participated in the 2010 Alabama Action program. They spent one week before classes at UA started freshening up the Hillcrest Middle School in Tusaloosa, County.
Notes from Alabama – Cemetery Mapping
UA Honors students participating in the University Fellows Experience have helped the residents of Marion, Alabama, by creating a data base of over 2,000 graves located in the city’s cemetery. From the database, the students were able to create a map of the cemetery to help people find their ancestors who are buried there. This is just another way UA students are touching lives.
Notes from Alabama – Black Belt Action
UA Students in the University Fellows Experience spent three weeks this summer in the Black Belt region of the state serving the residents of the Marion, Alabama, by refurbishing a city park.
Notes from Alabama – Capston College of Nursing
UA’s new Capstone College of Nursing building, complete with a 34-bed clinical practice lab, and 6 METI simulation labs opened to students on Wednesday, August 18, 2010.