Campus & Community

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Students Find New Way to Create Community with Engagement Pods

University Programs has created a new way to help students meet and build community called engagement pods.

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This week at The University of Alabama: Early Learning Initiative in Gadsden to launch in January 2021; EI@UA, an early intervention program, is available to support families of young children with disabilities or developmental delays; Beat Auburn Beat Hunger results to be announced.

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Free Program Helps Children with Disabilities, Developmental Delays

The University is offering a free new program, EI@UA, to support families of young children who have disabilities or developmental delays.

Education Graduate Student Wins Three Minute Thesis Competition

Education Graduate Student Wins Three Minute Thesis Competition

Fifteen participants had to give compelling oration on their research and its significance in just three minutes.

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Robotics Contest Awardee Returns to UA 9 Years Later as a Freshman

In 2011, third grader Mary Virginia McKinley competed in UA’s first-ever robotics competition. Now she is studying computer science.

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This week at The University of Alabama: Early Learning Initiative at Gadsden to launch in January; UA leads 4-year, $6 million project on groundwater research; Business leaders feel relief heading into fourth quarter of 2020.

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UA Honors Veterans with Joint Veterans Day Ceremony

UA’s Office of Veteran and Military Affairs will join other local organizations to honor veterans at the annual Tuscaloosa Veterans Day Ceremony.

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UA’s Intercultural Diversity Center Gets New Centralized Location

Now housed on the second floor of the Ferguson Student Center, the center offers weekly programming as well as informal gathering space.

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Finalists for Dean of Social Work to Meet Campus Nov. 9-12

Candidates will engage with student, staff and faculty groups and make a Zoom presentation to the campus community from 9-10 a.m. CST each day.

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This week at The University of Alabama: UA sets fundraising record; CrossingPoints receives more than $4 million in grants; 10 new students added to UA’s Rural Medical Scholars Program.