Awards & Honors

Summer Co-Op Students Announced at UA

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.

UA Professors Win NSF CAREER Awards

The National Science Foundation selected three University of Alabama professors for CAREER Awards totaling more than $1.6 million for research projects related to medical imaging, earthquake seismology and solar energy.

UA Grads Receive Fulbright Scholarships for International Study

Seema Kumar of Shreveport, La., and Elyse M. McLaughlin of Birmingham, recent graduates of The University of Alabama, have received Fulbright Scholarships to study abroad during the 2012-2013 school year.

Dean’s List Students Named for UA Spring Term

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.

UA Music Students Set Record in Southeast Competition

Five students from The University of Alabama School of Music’s French horn studio made history by sweeping all four competitions at the recent Southeast Horn Workshop.

UA-housed APR Wins National Edward R. Murrow Award

Alabama Public Radio, housed in The University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences, has been announced as a 2012 recipient of the Radio Television Digital News Association’s national Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence.

UA Business School Inducts Three to Faculty Hall of Fame

Three retired faculty members were recently inducted into the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration Faculty Hall of Fame at The University of Alabama.

UA Honors Students Receive Boren Scholarships for International Study

Two Honors College students at The University of Alabama have been awarded prestigious Boren Scholarships by the State Department for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Corder Named to UA’s ACRE Advisory Board of Trustees

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.

UA Lunar-Mining Team Wins National Contest

Alabama Lunabotics, a team of students from The University of Alabama and Shelton State Community College, won the top prize in the NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.