Dr. John C. Higginbotham, associate professor and interim chairman of the department of community and rural medicine in the College of Community Health Sciences, has been named associate dean for research and health policy for The University of Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa.
Some 40 freshmen in The University of Alabama Honors College, along with 14 student leaders, will be starting school a week early to participate in a community service project at Northington Elementary School Aug. 15-21.
Robert N. Davis, a University of Alabama graduate student in aerospace engineering, recently received a fellowship from the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society to continue graduate studies in the aerospace engineering field.
An internationally recognized professor of management, Dr. K. Michele Kacmar, has been named to the Durr-Fillauer Chair of Business Ethics at The University of Alabama business school.
A University of Alabama history professor who is an expert on the John F. Kennedy administration has been awarded a one-year $30,000 grant to assist in the completion of his book on the Bay of Pigs.
The University of Alabama’s WVUA-7 Tuscaloosa and WOTM TV-19 Birmingham have agreed to a partnership that will offer the best in televised Alabama sports programming to Central and North Alabama.
Dr. Paul S. Ray, associate professor of industrial engineering at The University of Alabama, recently received the national Educator of the Year award from the System Safety Society. Ray accepted the award at the 22nd annual System Safety Society Conference in Providence, R.I.
The University of Alabama’s University Medical Center will host a community-wide open house on Aug. 22 from 2:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. The new facility is located in the new School of Medicine building at the corner of University Boulevard and Fifth Avenue East.
The University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies is sponsoring the 17th Annual Alabama Governor’s Safety and Health Conference Aug. 30-Sept. 1 at the Perdido Beach Resort in Orange Beach. This year’s conference theme is “Safety and Health — Make a Commitment.”
University of Alabama student Chris Otts, a journalism major from Kenner, La., was recently selected to participate in the prestigious Scripps-Howard Foundation’s Semester in Washington program this fall.