For her work in The Secret of Magic, Deborah Johnson will receive the 2015 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. The prize, authorized by Lee and co-sponsored by The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal, is given annually to a book-length work of fiction that best illuminates the role of lawyers in society and their power to effect change.
University Medical Center, which is operated by The University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences, will open a new location in Northport July 1.
This week at The University of Alabama: University Medical Center to open Northport location – Grant to help prepare nurse educators – UA experts offer tips for using social media in job searches, avoiding poisonous plants – Journalism, history profs comment on Charleston events – Visitors invited to astronomy viewing
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – A total of 9,073 students enrolled during the 2015 spring semester at The University of Alabama were named to the Dean’s List with an academic record of 3.5 (or above) or the President’s List with an academic record of 4.0 (all A’s). The UA Dean’s and President’s lists recognize full-time undergraduate students.
The University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing has a new funding program that will make doctoral nursing education more affordable for currently practicing or teaching nurses who are committed to educating the next generation of nurses.
Program participants, The University of Alabama and local officials celebrate Swim to the Top, a four-week program designed to save lives and improve the health of at-risk children and youth aged 4-to 14-years-old at a luncheon Thursday, June 25, at 11:30 a.m. at the Benjamin Barnes Branch YMCA.
This week at The University of Alabama: Museum Expedition leads to fossilized animal remains discovery – Professor leads teacher training – STEM race set for Tuesday – UA experts available to comment on Charleston shooting, poisonous plants, working/playing in summer heat and Venus, Jupiter sharing a stage.
Dr. James Leeper, a professor in the department of community and rural medicine at The University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences, has been selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Middle-school student Aiden Taylor recently discovered a baseball-sized neck vertebra from an elasmosaur during the Alabama Museum of Natural History’s middle school Museum Expedition.