UA Broadcast News Students Win ABA Scholarships
Five University of Alabama telecommunication and film majors have been selected winners of $3,000 scholarships from the Alabama Broadcasters Association Education Foundation.
Awards & Honors
UA Scholastic Media Director Places in National Competition
Meredith Cummings, journalism instructor and director of scholastic media at The University of Alabama, placed third in the National Federation of Press Women’s 2013 Communications Contest.
UA Part of National Alliance to Spur African-American Computer Science Graduate Students
The University of Alabama is one of seven universities recently chosen by the National Science Foundation to launch the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences, or iAAMCS.
UA Business School Dean Named to GMAC Board
Dr. J. Michael Hardin, dean of The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, has been elected to the board of directors of the Graduate Management Admissions Council.
UA Engineering Professor Named Fellow by ASME
Dr. Stanley E. Jones, the James R. Cudworth Professor and University Research Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at The University of Alabama, was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
UA Recognizes Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers
Thirteen University of Alabama undergraduate researchers have received recognition through the Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Program.
UA Order of Omega Announces Award Winners
The University of Alabama chapter of Order of Omega announced award recipients at their annual banquet held recently in Tuscaloosa. Order of Omega is the national honorary for fraternity and sorority members.
UA Engineering Student Awarded NASA Fellowship
The NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship awarded University of Alabama civil engineering student Will Guin a renewable fellowship for graduate school.
UA Alumna Wins NBC’s ‘Fashion Star’
University of Alabama alumna and New York City-based fashion designer Hunter Bell’s perseverance and passion finally paid off — to the tune of $3 million and the opportunity to debut her collection with three of the nation’s largest retailers.
UA-housed APR Wins National Sigma Delta Chi Award
Alabama Public Radio, housed at The University of Alabama, won a national award for its documentary “Winds of Change,” that covered the first anniversary of the April 2011 Tuscaloosa tornado.