Recipients of the 2007 Premier Awards – the top individual honors for scholarship, leadership and service at The University of Alabama – were announced by UA President Robert E. Witt on Saturday, Feb. 17 at a recognition ceremony.
Cynthia Tucker, editorial page editor for “The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,” will receive the 2007 Clarence Cason Writing Award from the journalism department at The University of Alabama Thursday, March 8 at a banquet in her honor at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel.
Four students from The University of Alabama have been named to the 2007 USA Today All-USA College Academic Team.
The State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame will induct seven individuals and honor four corporations/institutions during a Feb. 24 ceremony at the Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort and Spa in Birmingham.
The University of Alabama has named a select group of students who will be McNair Scholars for 2007.
The University of Alabama African-American Graduate Student Association’s 2006-2007 Business Plan Competition for African-American Students has named the top seven finalists who will present their plans to a panel of judges on Friday, Feb. 23 from 8:30-11:30 a.m. in 111 AIME Building.
A total of 4,697 students enrolled during the fall 2006 semester at The University of Alabama made the Dean’s List with academic records of 3.5 (on a 4.0 scale) or above, or the President’s List with academic records of 4.0.
The University of Alabama’s vision of recruiting the “best and brightest” students is clearly becoming a reality as UA ranks 11th in the nation among public universities in the enrollment of National Merit Scholars for 2006-2007, and 29th among all universities. The rankings, based on the National Merit Scholarship Corp.’s newly-released 2005-2006 annual report, place UA among the top 8 percent nationally among colleges and universities that enrolled National Merit Scholars.
University of Alabama President Robert E. Witt will speak during a reception honoring UA’s National Merit, National Achievement and National Hispanic Scholars Wednesday, Jan. 31 from 2-3 p.m. at The Zone in Bryant-Denny Stadium.
The Alabama Alumni Magazine, a publication of The University of Alabama’s National Alumni Association, recently received a platinum award in the MarCom Creative Awards for its spring 2006 issue.