UA Community Services Center Offers SERVE Better Together Event

The University of Alabama Community Service Center will host the first SERVE Better Together event at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 15. The event is receiving support from the Target Foundation the UA Crossroads Community Center. The goal of the event is to create opportunities for improving intercultural relationships within a UA student body that grows more diverse each year and to promote a spirit of unity on campus and in the community.

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This week at The University of Alabama: Grand opening of Digital Media Center planned – UA experts comment on trial of Abu Ghaith, importance of reading nonfiction with children, tips for a healthy spring break, ways to cope with symptoms of menopause – Gladney Lecture features dramatic performance

The Smallest Victims

The Smallest Victims

Standard interview approaches used in child abuse cases too often result in incomplete pictures, says a University of Alabama social work professor researching the typical practices taken with young victims.

UA Announces 2014 Premier Awards for Scholarship, Leadership

Recipients of the 2014 Premier Awards – the top individual honors for scholarship, leadership and service at The University of Alabama – were announced at a recent presentation dinner. The 2014 UA Premier Award recipients will also be recognized at UA during Honors Week.

‘Race and Gender Inequity Fifty Years Later’ Symposium at UA School of Law

The Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review will host a one-day symposium, “The Legacy of 1964: Race and Gender Inequity Fifty Years Later,” April 4 at The University of Alabama School of Law.

UA Researchers to Map West Alabama Food Insecurity

Two researchers in The University of Alabama’s journalism department were awarded $8,000 from the Knight Foundation and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication to study food insecurity in West Alabama.

UA Matters: The Importance of Reading Nonfiction With Children

While fiction books are important for students to read, often nonfiction isn’t emphasized enough by teachers and parents of young children, experts say. The University of Alabama’s Dr. Julianne Coleman shares some thoughts on the importance of reading nonfiction with young children. With the new College and Career Readiness Standards, or CCRS, in Alabama and

UA Recognized by the American Concrete Institute

The University of Alabama was selected by the American Concrete Institute as an ACI Outstanding University for 2013.

Visiting Researcher to Give Emergency Preparedness Talk at UA

Dr. Victoria Raveis, a social gerontologist and medical sociologist, will present “Emergency Preparedness: When Natural Disasters Strike,” at noon Monday in room 104 of Little Hall on The University of Alabama campus.

UA Students Aid Community in Hands on Tuscaloosa

More than 300 University of Alabama students are expected to perform service projects with 13 nonprofit organizations as part of Hands on Tuscaloosa from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 8.