The Alabama Entrepreneurship Institute at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce will host its first Alabama Elevator Pitch and Business Plan Competition next fall.
The University of Alabama has received a $250,000 gift from The Wachovia Foundation to establish the Wachovia Foundation First Generation Scholarships. The first Wachovia Foundation First Generation Scholars will be selected beginning in the fall of 2009.
The University of Alabama awarded some 1,500 degrees during winter commencement Saturday, Dec. 13 on campus.
Bert Bank, Bataan March survivor, former Alabama legislator and broadcasting executive, will receive an honorary doctorate during The University of Alabama’s winter commencement ceremonies Saturday, Dec. 13 at 9 a.m., in Coleman Coliseum.
UA Gameday officials have announced that The University of Alabama campus will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 27 for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The University of Alabama won the 2008 Beat Auburn Beat Hunger Food Drive by collecting 270,915 pounds of food to top Auburn University’s collection of 212,195 pounds of food.
The University of Alabama has again been chosen as a McGowan Scholars Academic Institution for the 2009-2010 academic year by the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund Inc.
UA Gameday officials have announced that The University of Alabama campus will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 27 for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Caroline Gwaltney of Alexander City was named The University of Alabama Homecoming Queen for 2008 on Friday, Oct. 31 during UA’s annual Homecoming Pep Rally on campus.
The annual Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive, sponsored by the Community Service Center at The University of Alabama, will officially begin Monday, Oct. 20 with a kickoff event on the Ferguson Center Plaza from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.