Five of the state’s leading business and civic leaders will be inducted into the Alabama Business Hall of Fame Friday, Oct. 10 at a black-tie dinner at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.
Louise Crow, a University of Alabama junior from Mobile, is the recipient of Kappa Delta Sorority’s prestigious Corre Anding Stegall Leadership Award.
Talented students under the direction of Demondrae Thurman, assistant professor of euphonium and tuba in The University of Alabama School of Music, have recently received prestigious national awards for performance.
With the help of three students from The University of Alabama, the U.S. Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team won the gold medal in the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.
Ynhi Thai, a senior in The University of Alabama’s chemical engineering program, will receive a prestigious and highly competitive William Orr Dingwall Foundation Asian Ancestry Grant.
Dr. Forrest Scogin, an expert in mental health and aging and professor of clinical psychology at The University of Alabama, has won the M. Powell Lawton Distinguished Contribution Award for Applied Gerontology from the American Psychological Association. The award was given at the APA’s convention last month in Boston.
Dr. Berry H. (Nick) Tew Jr., Alabama’s State Geologist, an adjunct professor of geological sciences at The University of Alabama, and the director of the Geological Survey of Alabama, has begun a one-year term as president of the Association of American State Geologists.
Three former University of Alabama standout athletes — including the oldest, living UA football player — will be honored for their civic accomplishments as recipients of the 2008 Paul W. Bryant Alumni-Athlete Award.
Dr. Harris Schlesinger, professor of finance and Frank Park Samford Chair of Insurance at The University of Alabama, has received an award from the Decision Analysis Society of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, known as INFORMS, for the best decision analysis article or book published in 2006.
The University of Alabama is again ranked among the top 50 public universities in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings for 2009. UA is ranked 37th among public national universities and 83rd among all universities, both public and private.