Awards & Honors

UA’s Stone Appointed to Accounting Foundation Board

The Financial Accounting Foundation has announced that Dr. Mary Stone, director of the Culverhouse School of Accountancy at The University of Alabama, is one of four appointed to the FAF Board of Trustees.

UA Student’s Award-Winning Research Seeks to Improve Hurricane Warnings

A team of undergraduate and graduate students from The University of Alabama set out to survey people at public events in Pensacola and Jacksonville, Fla., to see how they interpret the “Cones of Uncertainty” and to evaluate different designs that could be easier to interpret.

UA Engineering Student Wins ASME National Award

Bianca Covington, a 2009 University of Alabama graduate in mechanical engineering, was recently awarded the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Charles T. Main Student Section Silver Award, which recognizes student leadership and service.

UA Social Work Student Named Nicol Volunteer Firefighter of the Year

University of Alabama student Robin Sullivan was named Volunteer Firefighter of the Year by the Nicol Fire Department at its recent awards ceremony.

UA Graduate Student Wins $150K Fellowship from DOE

The Department of Energy has awarded a University of Alabama doctoral student, Steven Kelley, a three-year, $150,000 Nuclear Energy University Programs Fellowship.

UA Doctoral Students Win NSF Grants to Strengthen Dissertations

The National Science Foundation awarded separate grants to two University of Alabama doctoral students to strengthen their research dissertations.

Former UA Presidents to Receive ODK Living Legends Award

The Iota Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa at The University of Alabama will present the Living Legends Award to Drs. Joab Thomas and Roger Sayers, former UA presidents, on Nov. 10 at 6 p.m. at the University Club.

UA Psychology Professor to Receive Blackmon-Moody Award

Dr. Beverly Thorn, chair of the psychology department at The University of Alabama, will receive the 2010 Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award.

UA Center Sponsors ‘Letters About Literature’ Contest for Kids

The Alabama Center for the Book, housed at The University of Alabama Libraries, is co-sponsoring “Letters About Literature,” a state and national reading and writing contest for schoolchildren in fourth through 12th grade.

AQA Judges Announce Team Showcase Awards

The Alabama Quality Award panel of judges has chosen four health care teams to receive the 2010 Team Showcase awards.