Individual contestants were not the only ones competing at the Miss Alabama Pageant earlier this month, but entire school programs were eligible for awards with the Miss University of Alabama Program named Best Large School Program during the event.
Shermeen Bashir Memon of Tuscaloosa, a University of Alabama May graduate, has been awarded a top fellowship from Alpha Lambda Delta national academic honor society for the 2006-2007 academic year.
University of Alabama student Ava Giana Leone of Ashville has been awarded a National Security Exchange Program Boren Graduate Fellowship.
Dr. Alvin Niuh, instructor of human nutrition and hospitality management at The University of Alabama, has received the Outstanding Dietitian Award from the Tuscaloosa Dietetic Association.
Broderick Ryans, a junior at Holt High School, has been selected as a 2006 Youth Leadership Summit Scholar by The University of Alabama GEAR UP project.
Dr. Roy Maize, associate professor and director of the restaurant, hotel and meetings management program in The University of Alabama College of Human Environmental Sciences, has been selected to receive the Lamp of Knowledge Award for Outstanding U.S. Educator from the American Hotel and Lodging Association Educational Institute.
Dr. John R. Oneal, professor of political science at The University of Alabama, has been named the 2006 recipient of the Buford Peace Award.
Dr. Alan Blum, University of Alabama professor in the College of Community Health Sciences, Gerald Leon Wallace Endowed Chair in Family Medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, recently received an honorary degree from Amherst College.
University of Alabama students Megan Carper of Decatur and Amanda McMillan of Monroeville have been named 2006 Fulbright Scholars.
George Brown, director of University Recreation at The University of Alabama has been elected Region II vice president of the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association board of directors.