Dr. Ed Schnee, Hugh Culverhouse Professor of Accounting at the Culverhouse School of Accountancy at The University of Alabama, has received the Outstanding Tax Educator Award from the American Tax Association.
The Alabama Center for Real Estate, housed at The University of Alabama, has announced the appointments of three new board members.
The Minnesota Center for Book Arts presented Sarah Bryant, a book arts instructor in The University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies, with the MCBA Prize, the first honor to recognize book art from across the field and around the world.
Dr. J. Suzanne Horsley, assistant professor of advertising and public relations at The University of Alabama, has been recognized by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for volunteer work with the American Red Cross after the April 27 tornado.
Two University of Alabama mechanical engineering professors have been elected as Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
A class project produced by a group of University of Alabama telecommunication and film students has been picked to screen at the New York Television Festival’s Independent Pilot Competition.
In the latest Forbes Best Business Schools list, the Manderson Graduate School of Business at The University of Alabama is ranked no. 57 among all graduate schools of business and No. 22 among public institutions.
The University of Alabama is holding three commencement ceremonies Aug. 5 and 6 to award degrees to more than 4,000 graduates. The ceremonies include students who were scheduled to participate in both May and August commencement ceremonies.
For his work in The Confession, #1 best-selling author John Grisham is being awarded the 2011 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, a new literary award co-sponsored by The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal, the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association.
University of Alabama Honors College student Caitlin Trotter was recently awarded a National Security Education Program Boren Scholarship to study in Morocco during the 2011-2012 academic year.