The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama System has named Dr. Guy Bailey president of The University of Alabama. The appointment will be effective in early September. An Alabama native and a two-time UA graduate, Bailey has served as president of Texas Tech University since 2008.
A group students at The University of Alabama are taking part in the Cooperative Education Program where they alternate periods of study with employment in their career areas.
“Hell: Paradise Found,” a comedy written and directed by Seth Panitch, UA associate professor of theatre, will trod the boards in New York this July in an Off-Broadway production at the 59E59 Theaters in Manhattan.
The University of Alabama’s Rose Towers will be demolished July 4 to make way for a new residence hall to be built near the same site.
A total of 6,847 students enrolled during the 2012 spring term at The University of Alabama were named to the Dean’s List with an academic record of 3.5 or above, or the President’s List with an academic record of 4.0, all As.
Lynn Corder, a founding partner in The Builders Group of West Alabama, a firm that specializes in residential home building, has been named to the advisory board of trustees of the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce.
The University of Alabama named Dr. Richard P. Swatloski director of its Office for Technology Transfer.
Some 850 University of Alabama students recently accepted membership and were initiated into Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society for first-year students.
The University of Alabama will award some 3,778 degrees during spring commencement Friday-Saturday, May 4-5, on campus.
The University of Alabama journalism department and National Elementary Schools Press Association officials will hold a news conference May 10 at 1 p.m. in the Tuscaloosa Magnet School library to announce the official move of the 18-year-old association from Asheville, N.C., to Tuscaloosa.