The University of Alabama is one of four universities selected by the National Science Foundation to team together with government agencies and private companies to tackle challenges facing technological advances in automobiles.
Two prominent University of Alabama alumni, Dr. E. Gaylon and Mrs. Susan N. McCollough, have gifted the College of Arts and Sciences with its largest academic endowment in more than two decades – for the purpose of creating two unprecedented initiatives: The Dr. E. Gaylon McCollough Institute for Pre-Medical Scholars and the Susan N. McCollough Art Biennale.
Two University of Alabama historians, Drs. Michael Innis-Jiménez and Andrew Huebner, were recently appointed distinguished lecturers of the Organization of American Historians.
Dr. Jamie Naidoo has been elected president of the Association for Library Service to Children.
The University of Alabama School of Law has announced that former U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance will join the law school as a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Law in August.
April 6, 2017, marked the 100th anniversary of the U.S.’s entry into the Great War. To mark the anniversary, The University of Alabama’s history department, the U.S. Army Crimson Tide ROTC Battalion and the U.S. Air Force Detachment 010 will hold an event, “Remembering the Great War,” at 4 p.m. Friday, April 14, in room 205 of Gorgas Library.
A University of Alabama researcher is part of a team that identified genes used to communicate by a starfish that preys upon coral reefs, a promising discovery that could lead to efforts to repel the aquatic pest from sensitive reefs.
A team of engineering students at The University of Alabama is one of six selected as finalists in an international contest to design better antennas for small satellites, called CubeSats.
Members of The University of Alabama faculty will be honored for their research contributions at the upcoming Faculty Research Day.
The University of Alabama Division of Student Life has announced the recipients of the 2017 Premier Awards – the top individual honors for scholarship, leadership and service.
The 2017 UA Premier Award recipients will be recognized at a dinner Thursday, March 23, as well as during Honors Week.