Dr. Gary April, head of the chemical engineering department in The University of Alabama College of Engineering and a distinguished University Research Professor, recently received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award.
The Alabama Scholastic Press Association named the first-ever J.B. Stevenson Scholarship Award recipient to the 2002 Alabama High School Journalist of the Year at its recent state convention.
A University of Alabama professor of biological sciences in the marine science program has been appointed to chair a U.S. Department of Interior-assembled subcommittee that will evaluate the controversial issues surrounding mercury contamination in the Gulf of Mexico.
Walter Dale Vickery, a senior in chemical engineering at The University of Alabama, has been awarded a Graduate Council Fellowship to study at the UA graduate school after receiving his bachelor’s degree in May.
A University of Alabama psychologist has been appointed to the national advisory council of the National Institute of Nursing Research, a part of the National Institutes of Health.
A thesis exhibition by Paul Moxon at The University of Alabama will run from April 25-July 26 in the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library on the 2nd floor of Mary Harmon Bryant Hall, 500 Hackberry Lane, on campus.
Alabama author Robert Inman will sign copies of his new book, “Captain Saturday,” at the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library in Mary Harmon Bryant Hall on The University of Alabama campus Monday, April 29, from 4-6 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
“I had never been in a place before where God was everywhere,” University of Alabama student Ashley Ragsdale said of South Africa, where she recently spent 15 days as the state’s only delegate in the National Youth Leadership Forum’s International Mission on Medicine.
Professors aren’t known today for the practice of “spying” on their students during class, but a recently rediscovered historical artifact at The University of Alabama suggests that one legendary UA professor fashioned a peephole in a massive bookcase to do just that.
Historic Tuomey Hall on The University of Alabama campus will be rededicated as an Academic House in UA’s Blount Undergraduate Initiative Saturday, April 27 at noon at Tuomey Hall on UA’s main Quadrangle. The ceremony will also dedicate the new Danford-Yarbrough Library, housed within Tuomey.