Dr. Carol Prickett, professor of music therapy and music education at The University of Alabama, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Music Therapy Association.
The 2009 Alabama Quality Award Conference and Ceremony will feature two keynote speakers, Pam Brock and Bill Taylor, to encourage organizations in Alabama to continue to strive for performance excellence.
Michael Lewis, a senior majoring in aerospace engineering from Knoxville, Tenn., was selected as a 2009 Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation Scholar.
A chemistry professor, whose discovery of a way to dissolve cellulose forms the basis of new research efforts to turn trees into valuable chemicals and fuels, is the winner of The University of Alabama’s Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor award.
The University of Alabama Rural Health Institute for Clinical and Translational Science was recognized for its work with the Governor’s KidCheck Health Initiative during an earlier ceremony at the State Capitol. The ceremony was hosted by Gov. Bob Riley and the Alabama Power Co.
A reception marking the gift of 15 lithographs of drawings by the 20th century’s greatest artist, Pablo Picasso, to the art and art history department and The College of Arts and Sciences will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in Gorgas Library at The University of Alabama. The reception is in honor of the donors of the lithographs, Dr. Virginia Rembert Liles, professor emeritus of art and art history, and Raeford Liles.
Marr’s Field Journal, The University of Alabama’s undergraduate student literary and arts magazine, won a national Pacemaker award at the Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers convention.
The Alabama Productivity Center and the Alabama Technology Network announces nine organizations as recipients of the 2009 Alabama Quality Award, the state’s highest honor for quality and performance excellence.
Milton Tarrell Nettles, a senior majoring in chemical and biological engineering from Monroeville, was recently awarded the AIChE Minority Scholarship Award by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, sponsored by the Minority Affairs Committee.
Lee Pike, professor and head of the Angelo Bruno Business Library at The University of Alabama, has been selected to receive the 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award from the UA School of Library and Information Studies.