Lisa McKinney, accounting lecturer at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce, was recognized with the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award from the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants.
University of Alabama-housed APR won a national award for “Remembering 1963,” a look at Civil Rights era events in the state.
Dr. Mark Nelson has been named dean of the College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama. Nelson has served as vice president for student affairs and vice provost for academic affairs at UA since 2008 and has been a member of the College of Communication and Information Sciences’ faculty for more than 20 years.
he University of Alabama’s Computer-Based Honors Program has begun announcing its selections for the 2014 freshman class. The program, which has been named among the six most intriguing honors programs in the United States by the National Institute of Education, pairs academically elite students directly with leading research professors and cutting-edge computing technology to complete scholarly research projects in any field of study.
The University of Alabama-housed Center for Public Television and Radio won Southeast Regional Emmy Awards for its documentary on Paul “Bear” Bryant and its original short documentaries, “Alabama Detours.”
The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations at The University of Alabama has announced the fifth class for its Fellowship Program for Public Relations Educators.
A team of University of Alabama engineering students won the 2014 Student Casting Competition for the Southeast organized by the American Foundry Society.This is the third time in four years UA students have won the AFS competition.
Dr. Lin Li, assistant professor of metallurgical and materials engineering at The University of Alabama, was one of 35 researchers selected to receive a nationally-competitive grant from Oak Ridge Associated Universities through the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards program.
The Alabama Space Grant Consortium awarded seven undergraduate scholarships and one graduate fellowship to students at The University of Alabama.
The University of Alabama’s department of criminal Justice, in conjunction with The University of Alabama Police Department, recently received a $60,000 grant from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs to start a digital forensics crime lab at UA.