Two University of Alabama sophomores, Crystal B. Ellis from Columbia, S.C.; and Meaghan E. Till from Greenville have been awarded Isabella Hummel Graham Scholarships by The University Women’s Club.
Lee Elizabeth Parker, a junior majoring in nursing, was named 2006 Miss University of Alabama.
And you thought The University of Alabama had never been home to a Heisman winner.
Dr. Roberta “Bobbi” Webster, an instructor and director of undergraduate studies in the geography department at The University of Alabama, recently received the Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award from the National Council for Geographic Education.
Dr. Guy Caldwell, associate professor of biological sciences at The University of Alabama, was named the state’s 2005 Professor of the Year today by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, known as CASE.
In recognition of the contributions made over the past 20 years, The University of Alabama Museum of Natural History is pleased to have Dr. Doug Phillips, host of “Discovering Alabama,” unveil its most recently acquired fossil specimen on display; a 63-foot skeletal cast of a basilosaurus whale (Alabama’s state fossil).
A select group of students at The University of Alabama have been accepted into the Coordinated Program in Dietetics in the UA College of Human Environmental Sciences.
A paper co-authored by Dr. Anup Agrawal, professor of finance and holder of the William A. Powell Chair of Finance and Banking at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce, has received the “Best Paper” award at the recent Financial Management Association meeting in Chicago.
The University of Alabama will hold an informational convocation on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Heritage Room to familiarize students with the UA Premier Awards, the top honors presented annually at the University.
The National Science Foundation has awarded the Alabama Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, headquartered at The University of Alabama, a grant to coordinate development of a Hurricane Katrina recovery plan for educational research initiatives damaged within Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.