U. of Alabama president celebrates 60th anniversary of first black student accepted, enrolled USA Today College – Feb 7 University of Alabama President Stuart Bell sent an email to students, faculty and staff on Feb. 5, 2016, marking the 60th anniversary of the day the first black student was accepted and enrolled at the University. On
Teams from Alabama State University, Tuskegee University and Rhodes College took home the top honors in The University of Alabama’s second annual Culverhouse Leadership Diversity Competition.
Darwin Day, an annual event hosted by The University of Alabama’s Evolutionary Studies Club, has evolved into the Southeastern Evolutionary Perspectives Society, or SEEPS, conference, which will be held Feb. 12–14 in room 227 of Lloyd Hall on the UA campus.
The Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce has welcomed a new associate researcher to its team.
This week at The University of Alabama: Engineering students work at Moundville Park – Adapted Athletics gets new arena, training facility – Social work honor society delivers teddy bears to children – Geography professors published in Nature — Art professors hold art show — UA hosts numerous events for African-American History Month – CCHS co-sponsors African film festival – LIFT Program seeking participants — Mini Medical School continues with weekly lecture series – Brussels Sprout Challenge part of annual Heart Walk – Guest lecturer discusses history of the corpse
The University of Alabama’s Adapted Athletics program will have a new home in 2017.
Early College deadline coming up — New director at Moundville Archaeological Park — Approval for adaptive athletic facility — and more.
Three Freedom Riders will share their personal accounts of challenging racial segregation at 1:30 p.m Sunday, Feb. 7, hosted by the First African Baptist Church, 621 Stillman Blvd. and T.Y. Rogers Avenue. The University of Alabama Crossroads Community Center, Black Student Union, University Programs, Afro American Gospel Choir and the First African Baptist Church are co-sponsoring this event, part of UA’s African American History Month.
60th anniversary of Autherine Lucy’s enrollment at UA — Concrete Canoe Race coming up — film about African American chemist — and more.
University of Alabama engineering students are getting real-world experience while taking on projects at Moundville Archaeological Park, including replacing the Mound B steps.