Dr. Louis Marino, associate professor of entrepreneurship and strategic management, has been invited to join the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference Review Board. The conference is considered by many to be the premier entrepreneurship research conference in the world.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering will honor six alumni of the College by inducting them into its class of 2008 Distinguished Engineering Fellows.
The University of Alabama will recognize the scholarship and leadership of students and faculty with 2008 Honors Week activities on campus April 14-18.
The University of Alabama School of Law is ranked 11th among public law schools and 32nd among all law schools in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2009 edition of its annual “Best Graduate Schools” publication. The publication also ranks the UA School of Social Work 28th among social work programs at public universities and 42nd when both public and private institutions are included.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering announced Dr. Beth Todd, associate professor of mechanical engineering, as the 2008 T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership award recipient.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering awarded L. Lamar Faulkner with the 2008 Outstanding Alumni Volunteer Award.
University of Alabama students representing the UA Office of Student Media took top spots in the Southeast Journalism Conference held recently at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
Dr. John E. Lochman, professor and Saxon Chair in Clinical Psychology at The University of Alabama, director of the Center for Prevention of Youth Behavior Problems and co-developer of the “Coping Power” program to help treat persistent and disruptive aggressive behavior in children, is the recipient of The University of Alabama’s 2007 Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award.
The new executive officers of the University of Alabama National Panhellenic Conference recently started their 2008 terms in office.
The University of Alabama Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team came in second by only one point in the Women’s National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament held earlier this month in Champaign, Ill.