Dr. David Dixon, professor and holder of the Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry at The University of Alabama, has been named a recipient of one of the first Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Awards.
University of Alabama students continue to rank among the best in the country with three students chosen to receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships and one student given an honorable mention.
Media stations housed in The University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences have won seven regional Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association.
Students from across Alabama have won recognition from Letters About Literature, a national reading and writing program. The Alabama Center for the Book, based at The University of Alabama, sponsors the contest.
Chip Harrison, a junior at The University of Alabama from Tuscaloosa, has been selected as a judicial intern for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dr. Ramana Reddy, ACIPCO Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at The University of Alabama, was recently named the recipient of a distinguished service award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.
The University of Alabama’s APR news team has been named one of 10 radio winners for the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award.
The Coca-Cola Foundation recently awarded scholarships to a select group of University of Alabama students, providing them with the opportunity to be the first in their families to earn a college degree.
Margaret P. Garner, associate professor in The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences, has been named director-at-large for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, formerly the American Dietetic Association.
University of Alabama journalism professor Rick Bragg will give the 2012 Last Lecture, titled “So People Won’t Forget,” at 6 p.m. Monday, April 23.