University of Alabama political science major Jack Parker of Mountain Brook has received first place in the national 2007 Olive W. Garvey Fellowship essay contest, sponsored by The Independent Institute.
The board of advisors for The University of Alabama’s Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations has added three new members to an existing group of 12.
Four distinguished communication pioneers will be inducted into The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences’ Hall of Fame Oct. 25. The induction ceremonies will be at the NorthRiver Yacht Club.
University of Alabama doctoral student Ed Geisweidt, in the department of English, is one of only 14 graduate students in the country to be selected to participate in the Folger Institute’s year-long Dissertation Seminar, “Researching the Archives,” at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
The University of Alabama is being nationally recognized for academic excellence and service as one of four schools named Truman Foundation Honor Institutions this year.
Twelve college graduates have begun their graduate study in science, engineering and mathematics at The University of Alabama as part of a new National Science Foundation-sponsored “Bridge to the Doctorate” Program at UA.
A University of Alabama ecologist is scheduled to become a division chair in the nation’s oldest higher education association during the organization’s annual meeting set for Nov. 11-13 in New York.
The undergraduate entrepreneurship program at the Culverhouse College of Commerce at The University of Alabama moved up two places to No. 18 in rankings just released by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review.
The Manderson Graduate School of Business at The University of Alabama is again ranked in the top 10 in three categories in the latest rankings by The Princeton Review.
The University of Alabama National Alumni Association has announced the 2007 recipients of the University’s highest honor for excellence in teaching, the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Awards.