TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Service projects, a convocation and several meet-and-greet activities highlight The University of Alabama’s Week of Welcome, or “The WOW Factor,” for freshmen, transfer and returning students beginning Saturday, Aug. 13. Organized by UA’s University Programs office, the Week of Welcome offers more than two-dozen events designed to usher in first-year and transfer
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences will holds its annual Communication Hall of Fame dinner on Thursday, Oct. 6, in the North Zone at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The 2016 inductees are Rick Bragg, Eli Gold, James Spann and George Stewart. Rick Bragg Rick Bragg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama will award some 1,537 degrees during spring commencement Saturday, Aug. 6. With this graduating class, UA will have awarded more than 255,000 degrees since its founding in 1831 as the state’s first public university. Students listed as candidates to receive degrees include:
Editors/Producers Note: A Media Day is scheduled from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, for Alabama Action at Vance Elementary School. Students will perform outdoor and indoor service tasks to prepare for the start of school. Contact Richard LeComte, media relations, at rllecomte@ur.ua.edu or 205/394-3040. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — More than 200 University of Alabama Honors College freshmen and
The University of Alabama’s Sorority Fall Formal Recruitment begins on Friday, August 5. UA Panhellenic President, Pamela Sox, has been preparing for the largest sorority recruitment in the nation for the past year.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama will hold its summer commencement exercises Aug. 6 at Coleman Coliseum on the UA campus. The ceremony begins at 9 a.m. More than 1,500 diplomas are scheduled to be awarded to undergraduate and graduate students from all colleges and schools. Donna Meester, UA associate professor of theatre and president
MONDAY, AUG. 1 – SUNDAY, AUG. 7, 2016 BEST BETS UA TO HOLD SUMMER COMMENCEMENT – UA will hold its summer commencement exercises Aug. 6 at Coleman Coliseum. The ceremony begins at 9 a.m. More than 1,500 diplomas are scheduled to be awarded to undergraduate and graduate students from all colleges and schools. The ceremony
Two select groups of students from across Alabama recently were on The University of Alabama campus for the 2016 Rural Health Scholars and Rural Minority Health Scholars programs in UA’s College of Community Health Sciences.
Two students studying electrical engineering at The University of Alabama were recognized recently for designing and crafting a wireless shoe insole that monitors activity users can track on a mobile phone app.