Holt High Student Selected 2006 Youth Leadership Summit Scholar by UA GEAR UP
Broderick Ryans, a junior at Holt High School, has been selected as a 2006 Youth Leadership Summit Scholar by The University of Alabama GEAR UP project.
Awards & Honors
UA Professor Receives Outstanding Educator Award
Dr. Roy Maize, associate professor and director of the restaurant, hotel and meetings management program in The University of Alabama College of Human Environmental Sciences, has been selected to receive the Lamp of Knowledge Award for Outstanding U.S. Educator from the American Hotel and Lodging Association Educational Institute.
UA Professor Recognized With Buford Peace Award
Dr. John R. Oneal, professor of political science at The University of Alabama, has been named the 2006 recipient of the Buford Peace Award.
UA Professor Receives Amherst Honorary Degree
Dr. Alan Blum, University of Alabama professor in the College of Community Health Sciences, Gerald Leon Wallace Endowed Chair in Family Medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, recently received an honorary degree from Amherst College.
Two UA Students Named Fulbright Scholars
University of Alabama students Megan Carper of Decatur and Amanda McMillan of Monroeville have been named 2006 Fulbright Scholars.
University Recreation Director Named NIRSA Vice President
George Brown, director of University Recreation at The University of Alabama has been elected Region II vice president of the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association board of directors.
UA Professor Receives Two Esteemed Awards from Alabama Library Association
Dr. Annabel Stephens, a professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at The University of Alabama, recently received the annual Eminent Librarian award and an award for Lifetime Achievement from the Alabama Library Association.
UA Student Awarded Tourism Association Scholarship
University of Alabama senior Mallory D. Smith of Fort Payne has received a $1,000 academic scholarship from Tourism Cares for Tomorrow.
UA Engineering Student Places Fourth in National Award for Research Paper
Aaron Quick, a University of Alabama senior majoring in civil and environmental engineering, recently placed fourth in the Daniel W. Mead contest for students sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Quick was one of five national winners for papers featuring risk management and engineering.
UA Student to Work for United Nations
University of Alabama doctoral student, Jane Munga, has been awarded a summer internship with the United Nations to be based in Sanaa, Yemen.