Birmingham Area Residents Among UA Graduates
The University of Alabama awarded some 1,400 degrees at winter commencement ceremonies held Monday, Dec. 15, in Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.
Campus & Community
The Children of the Black Belt: UA Offers Help and Hope
Pick a grim statistic—poverty, infant deaths, poor education, births to single mothers, unemployment, gaps in health care—and you’ll find the counties of Alabama’s Black Belt at the top of each category.
UA Center to Present 2004 Economic Outlook Conference
So is the economy recovering or not? A day after breaking the fabled 10,000 barrier earlier this month, the Dow industrials dropped back to 9,996 the next day.
Long-time UA Professor and Administrator Speaks at UA Winter Graduation
Speaking today at The University of Alabama’s winter commencement ceremony, Dr. Douglas E. Jones, UA professor emeritus of geology and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, said the biggest challenges facing this generation of college graduates are environmental issues.
Home Sales in State Drop Again in October, UA’s Real Estate Research and Education Center Reports
After two consecutive record setting months in July and August, home sales in Alabama decreased again in October, down 8.9 percent from September, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
UA to Offer ‘NCLB’ Qualifying Math Courses for Alabama Teachers
A mathematics course specially designed for practicing Alabama elementary and middle school teachers who need to fulfill the national “No Child Left Behind” requirements to become highly qualified teachers will be offered by The University of Alabama this spring.
UA Researchers Create Worms with Epileptic Seizures, Insight Gained to be Presented at National Conference
A creature with exactly 302 neurons seems an unlikely stand-in for the human brain, when has more than 100 billion neurons. Yet C. elegans, a nematode no bigger than the comma after this clause, may be a new model for epileptic seizures in humans, according to researchers at The University of Alabama.
President of Mortgage Bankers of America to be Keynote Speaker at UA Real Estate Conference
Dr. Douglas Duncan, senior vice president and chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual Alabama Real Estate Conference at The University of Alabama on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004.
Media Advisory — UA’s Winter Commencement Exercises
Monday, Dec. 15, 2003, 9 a.m., at Coleman Coliseum
UA to Host 21st Journalism Workshop
The University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences is recruiting high school students to participate in its 21st annual Multicultural Journalism Workshop, formerly known as the Minority Journalism Workshop.