Albright Named to Governor’s Council on Opioid Overdoses, Addiction

Albright Named to Governor’s Council on Opioid Overdoses, Addiction

Gov. Kay Ivey has appointed Dr. David L. Albright, associate professor and Hill Crest Foundation Endowed Chair in Mental Health in The University of Alabama School of Social Work, to serve on the Alabama Opioid Overdose and Addiction Council.

UA In the News — Sept. 9-11

UA In the News — Sept. 9-11

Yoga classes in the library — Diversity goals — Miss America — and more.

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This week at The University of Alabama – Researching business success, failure – Looking at why nations fight – Debris cannon used to study storm shelter stability – Commentary available on insurance following hurricanes – See Quad in Motion — Former Commandant of the Marines to Speak — Harper Lee Prize to be awarded – – Talk on evolutionary nature of skin color

Get Moving with Quad in Motion

Get Moving with Quad in Motion

Fitness, fun and freebies are packed into the third annual Quad in Motion, set for Sept. 13.

NSF Grant Funds Engineering Preparatory Class, Scholarships

NSF Grant Funds Engineering Preparatory Class, Scholarships

The University of Alabama College of Engineering is using a National Science Foundation grant to start three preparatory classes and a scholarship fund in an effort to address student retention.

Circle K Plans 9/11 Ceremony Today

Circle K Plans 9/11 Ceremony Today

Circle K, a student organization dedicated to community service, will hold its third annual 9/11 ceremony today at noon.

Anthropologist to Discuss Skin Evolution in ALLELE Lecture Series at UA

Anthropologist to Discuss Skin Evolution in ALLELE Lecture Series at UA

The University of Alabama’s ALLELE Lecture series will host Dr. Nina G. Jablonski on Friday, Sept. 15 for her lecture “Human Skin Color is an Evolutionary Adaptation, not a Racial Characteristic.”

Weather Results in Cancellation of Supreme Court Justice Visit

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Sonia Sotomayor will be unable to visit The University of Alabama School of Law this week for the Albritton Lecture and related events. Weather caused by Hurricane Irma made her scheduled flights impossible.

UA Alumni-Athlete Award Recipients Honored at Football Game

Three University of Alabama alumni — Marty Lyons, Leon R. Marlaire and Dr. E. Gaylon McCollough — were honored with the 2017 Paul W. Bryant Alumni-Athlete Award during a ceremony Saturday, Sept. 9, at Bryant-Denny Stadium on the UA campus.

UA Study Examines Fate of Firms with Initial Public Offerings in 1996

UA Study Examines Fate of Firms with Initial Public Offerings in 1996

Twenty years after the largest number of initial public offerings in one year took place, a new study from The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce explores what happened to the IPO companies.