UA Student Team Among Top Four SI on Campus Consultant Teams
Seven students who are members of the Sports Illustrated On Campus consultant team at The University of Alabama were recently named one of the top four teams nationally out of 50 teams.
Awards & Honors
UA Professor Receives Journalism Award
Dr. Ed Mullins, retired professor of journalism and former dean of The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences, received the 2007 Distinguished Special Achievement in Journalism Award from Auburn University’s Journalism Advisory Council on April 6.
UA Education Professor Appointed to Fellowship
Dr. Matt Curtner-Smith, professor of kinesiology and department head at The University of Alabama’s College of Education, was recently appointed as a Fellow into the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
UA Social Work Professor Receives Fulbright Award
Dr. Ellen Csikai, associate professor of social work at The University of Alabama, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the University of Debrecen in Hungary during the 2007-08 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
UA Honors Five Distinguished Engineering Fellows
The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently honored five alumni and friends of the College by inducting them into its class of 2007 Distinguished Engineering Fellows.
Bambarger Awarded UA Engineering Outstanding Alumni Volunteer Award
The University of Alabama College of Engineering awarded James C. Bambarger with the 2007 Outstanding Alumni Volunteer Award.
Whitaker Receives UA Engineering’s T. Morris Hackney Leadership Award
The University of Alabama College of Engineering announced Dr. Kevin Whitaker, associate dean for academic programs, as the 2007 T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership Award recipient.
UA Engineering Professor Earns NSF Career Award
Dr. James P. Hubner, assistant professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics at The University of Alabama, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. NSF’s CAREER Awards recognize top-performing young scientists and engineers who are beginning their careers.
U.S News Ranks UA Law School 15th Among Public Law Schools, 36th Overall
The University of Alabama School of Law is ranked 15th among public law schools and 36th among all law schools in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2008 edition of its annual “Best Graduate Schools” publication. The ranking is the highest ever for the UA Law School, which has been ranked among the Top 50 law schools for nine consecutive years.
UA Student Awarded Prestigious Scholarship for Study Abroad
Perren Banks, a sophomore from Uniontown majoring in biological sciences at The University of Alabama, is the recipient of a national scholarship for study abroad this summer at the University of Liverpool in England.