Culverhouse LIFT Goes Virtual to Support Learners, Business Owners

Culverhouse LIFT Goes Virtual to Support Learners, Business Owners

Free tutoring, job skills and financial literacy training sessions will soon be available to West Alabama residents, including veterans and teens, through The University of Alabama’s business college.

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This week at The University of Alabama: UA researcher receives $1 million to implement opioid telehealth network; UA’s Culverhouse LIFT program offers free tutoring and job skills training; and UA social work research secures $1.6 million to improve communication between dementia patients, their caregivers and healthcare providers.

UA Team to Build Opioid Prevention, Recovery Network in State

UA Team to Build Opioid Prevention, Recovery Network in State

A University of Alabama-led team of researchers is ready to implement a robust opioid prevention, treatment and recovery network in the state.

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This week at The University of Alabama: UA researcher secures more than $1 million to advance dementia care; a UA-led outreach program to combat opioids is awarded $1 million; UA program helps small businesses during pandemic.

A female social worker and an elderly woman use a tablet device to communicate with one another.

UA Researcher’s Tech-Focused Dementia Care Projects Funded

A University of Alabama social work researcher’s work in advancing technology to improve dementia care receives boost from NIA, NSF.

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UA Program Helps Small Businesses with Challenges in Pandemic

Over the last five months, a program based at The University of Alabama helped thousands of small businesses in the state successfully tap into federal disaster funds to preserve jobs and stay open.

Students sit in cap and gown at commencement ceremony.

Summer 2020 Graduates Announced at UA

The University of Alabama awarded some 1,384 degrees during summer commencement July 31-Aug. 2.

Message from UA President Stuart Bell

Earlier today, our Vice President of Student Life, Myron Pope, had a conversation with student leaders. It is disturbing to see statements from that conversation taken out of context. The quoted positivity rate is grossly misleading as presented.

UA Adds Temporary Directives that Restrict Access, Prohibit Gatherings

These added directives place stricter access restrictions and prohibit gatherings at on- and off-campus residences and place a 14-day moratorium on all in-person student events.

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Research Finds Link Between COVID-19 Deaths, Morbid Obesity

UA researchers found a statistically significant relationship between the prevalence of morbid obesity in a population and cases of — and deaths from — COVID-19.