Renewed excavation efforts at the site of a Native American council house, first discovered by a University of Alabama archaeological team in 2001, have revealed it is the largest such structure ever found in the Southeast, says the UA anthropology professor leading the excavation.
For part of their senior-level design course, nine mechanical engineering student teams at The University of Alabama have been designing and building devices to help children with spina bifida get into and out of their wheelchairs and bathtubs.
The University of Alabama will host a variety of interesting events on campus during International Education Week, Nov. 18-22.
A group of health care professionals, including six people affiliated with The University of Alabama’s Capstone Rural Health Center, will begin staffing a temporary nursing station today in Carbon Hill to treat storm victims and members of the clean-up crews.
Additional funding for the partnership between The University of Alabama and Holt High School in Tuscaloosa, to be announced Wednesday, Nov. 13, will bring their total funding to nearly $2 million dollars.
The University of Alabama Psi Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity recently won the Lion Trophy for its commitment to scholarship, community service, chapter improvement and alumni relations. The Lion Trophy is an international award given to the outstanding DKE chapter.
Dr. Robert F. Olin, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Alabama, will receive the prestigious Year 2002 Virginia B. Smith Innovative Leadership Award on Nov. 9, 2002 at ceremonies in Washington, D.C.
The Afro-American Gospel Choir and Delta Sigma Theta Inc. of The University of Alabama will host a “Gospel Explosion” on Sunday, Nov. 17, at 4 p.m. at the UA Ferguson Center Ballroom.
The University of Alabama School of Law recently published “The Private Life Of A New South Lawyer: Stephens Croom’s 1875-1876 Journal.” The publication, produced by the UA Law School Bounds Law Library, is an edited glimpse into the private life of a respected Mobile lawyer.
There is a great deal of discussion in the press, and among citizen groups, as to the need for constitutional reform in Alabama. Pointing to a tax structure that unfairly burdens the poorest Alabamians while raising dismally inadequate revenues and a legal structure that severely interferes with local governments’ ability to meet local needs, constitutional reform supporters accuse Alabama’s constitution of wrongfully locking in the present tax inequities and thwarting other desperately needed improvements.