UA Campus Smoke-free Policy Takes Effect in New Year
As part of ensuring the health and well-being of our students, faculty, staff and visitors, The University of Alabama will become smoke-free effective Jan. 1, 2015.
UA Student News for Nov. 4, 2014
Click on http://uanews.ua.edu/student to view UA Student News on UA’s website if you have problems reading the email subscription. DEADLINES Applications for homecoming queen, Nov. 10, 1 p.m., sgaelections@sa.ua.edu Registration fee for homecoming queen, Nov. 10, 1 p.m., 3600 Ferguson Center SOURCE applications for collaborative grants, Nov. 17 Nominations and applications for Premier Awards, Nov.
UA In the News: Nov. 1-3, 2014
UA experts comment on adjusting to standard time, elections – Events include talk by accident expert, Three Minute Thesis competition, Dance Alabama!, SODEL dinners – UA prof speaks at Central Washington University
UA Preview
This week at The University of Alabama: UA political scientist comments on elections – Student team selected for environmental contest – Researcher discovers links between arthritic pain, depression and sleep – UA experts offer tips to help a loved one stop smoking, take care of caregivers – Events include Medal of Honor exhibit, 3MT competition, Gladney Lecture, transcontinental concert, Dance Alabama!, CIEL meeting, museum programs
Huryn Named Director of UA’s Center for Freshwater Studies
Dr. Alex Huryn, professor in The University of Alabama’s department of biological sciences, has been named director of the Center for Freshwater Studies in UA’s College of Arts and Sciences.
UA Matters: Helping Your Loved One Stop Smoking
The University of Alabama’s Dr. Alice March offers some suggestions for you to help your loved one with tobacco addition.
Studying Salamanders to Size up Climate Change
A UA doctoral student’s collaborative research with the Smithsonian Institute revealed salamanders are shrinking – a phenomenon linked to climate change, researchers hypothesize.
UA in the News: Oct. 31, 2014
UA researchers helped identify new frog species – UA expert comments on Amendment One
Former NTSB Medical Officer to Speak in UA Lecture Series
Dr. Mitch Garber, a physician and engineer with more than 20 years of military and civilian experience in transportation accident investigation, will speak about the intersection of engineering and medicine as part of the Richard C. Bradt Lecture Series in The University of Alabama College of Engineering.
UA Hosts Health Care Journalist, Author for Community Talk
T.R. Reid, a Washington Post journalist and author of the best-selling book, “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care,” will give a community talk at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Tuscaloosa River Market.