Notes from Alabama – Outdoor Action 2010
Some 50 UA Honors Students worked at a local organic farm and participated in a discussion about the benefits of organic farming during this year’s Outdoor Action service-learning program.
Campus & Community
Notes from Alabama – Getting Spiritual
UA students were able to meet representatives from various spiritual traditions and congregations at the Get Involved, Get Spiritual event sponsored by the UA Office of Student Involvement and Leadership.
Notes from Alabama – Alabama Action 2010
Over 100 UA honors students participated in the 2010 Alabama Action program. They spent one week before classes at UA started freshening up the Hillcrest Middle School in Tusaloosa, County.
Notes from Alabama – Cemetery Mapping
UA Honors students participating in the University Fellows Experience have helped the residents of Marion, Alabama, by creating a data base of over 2,000 graves located in the city’s cemetery. From the database, the students were able to create a map of the cemetery to help people find their ancestors who are buried there. This is just another way UA students are touching lives.
Notes from Alabama – Black Belt Action
UA Students in the University Fellows Experience spent three weeks this summer in the Black Belt region of the state serving the residents of the Marion, Alabama, by refurbishing a city park.
Notes from Alabama – Capston College of Nursing
UA’s new Capstone College of Nursing building, complete with a 34-bed clinical practice lab, and 6 METI simulation labs opened to students on Wednesday, August 18, 2010.
Tips for Teaching Kids Sound Money Management Skills
In an unstable economy with looming personal and public deficits, money management has become a family affair-especially once the school year starts and extra costs come rolling in each week.
Healthy School Lunches
Packing a school lunch has become less a matter of saving money or satisfying a finicky eater-it’s now a matter of health.
Researching the Oil Spill in the Gulf
A high-tech version of a basic principle used 8,000 years ago in reducing unwanted materials is at the heart of an effort by University of Alabama scientists to lessen the Gulf oil spill’s impact on fragile coastal marshes.
Williams Collection
The University of Alabama Libraries is acquiring one of the most extensive collections of Americana and Southern history in private hands: the A. S. Williams III Collection of History and Culture of the South.