The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama has recognized UA Director of Athletics Mal M. Moore for his outstanding achievements and distinguished service to the University by naming a major athletic facility in his honor.
Dr. Stephen Katsinas, director of the Education Policy Center and professor of higher education at The University of Alabama, recently received the George Autry Award from the Rural Community College Alliance for his lifelong commitment to scholarly research, advocacy and service to America’s rural community colleges.
Six University of Alabama students who have a passion for books have been named as winners in the UA Libraries’ Book Collecting Contest.
Sixteen organizations are recipients of the 2006 Alabama Quality Award, the state’s honor for quality and performance, administered by the Alabama Productivity Center, located at The University of Alabama.
Lauren Burch of Fairfield, Conn., was named The University of Alabama Homecoming Queen for 2006 on Friday, Oct. 27 during UA’s annual Homecoming Pep Rally on campus.
The Association for University Business and Economic Research has named “Alabama Business,” the quarterly newsletter produced by The University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research, the winner of the 2006 Publications Award for Newsletters, Brochures, and Other Promotional Materials.
The University of Alabama has been recognized for extraordinary community service by the first-ever President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll announced in Chicago on Oct. 17.
The University of Alabama Graduate School has announced the 2006-2007 recipients of Graduate Council Fellowships, the most prestigious and competitive graduate fellowships at UA awarded to graduate students with the highest academic and scholarly qualifications.
Dr. Arthur C. Benke, a professor of biological sciences at The University of Alabama whose latest book has won national honors, is the winner of the University’s Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award.
Dr. Patti L. Harrison, professor of school psychology at The University of Alabama, has been awarded the 2006 Jack Bardon Distinguished Service Award by the Division of School Psychology in the American Psychological Association.