Awards & Honors

Anniston Area Residents Among UA Graduates

The University of Alabama awarded some 1,231 degrees to students in August.

Birmingham Area Residents Among UA Graduates

The University of Alabama awarded some 1,231 degrees to students in August.

Graduate Council Fellowship Recipients Named at UA

The University of Alabama Graduate School has announced the 2005-2006 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.

UA’s Beta Theta Pi Fraternity Named Most Improved Chapter

Beta Theta Pi Fraternity’s Delta Theta chapter at The University of Alabama received the Most Improved Chapter award at the fraternity’s 166th General Convention held recently in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Professor of the Year Nominee Calls UA’s Worm Shack Home

A place nicknamed “The Worm Shack” might seem an unlikely venue to find a nominee for the U.S. Professor of the Year, but that’s where you can often locate Dr. Guy Caldwell, associate professor of biological sciences at The University of Alabama.

University of Alabama Dean Honored With Peak Award

Dr. E. Culpepper “Cully” Clark, dean of The University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences, received the Communications Educator of the Year award from the Birmingham Advertising Federation.

UA Honors College Dean Receives Current-Garcia Award

Dr. Robert W. Halli Jr., dean of The University of Alabama Honors College, has received the Eugene Current-Garcia Award as Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar for 2005.

UA Ranked in Top Tier By U.S. News

For the fifth consecutive year, Alabama has two public universities – The University of Alabama and Auburn University – among the nation’s top 50, according to U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings for 2006.

Battle, Langdale to Receive Bryant Award at Sept. 3 Game

The University of Alabama National Alumni Association has announced that Bill Battle and Dr. Noah Langdale Jr. are the 2005 recipients of the Paul W. Bryant Alumni-Athlete Award.

James Padilla, President and COO of Ford Motor Co., to Deliver Business Hall of Fame Keynote Address at UA

James J. Padilla, president and chief operating officer of Ford Motor Co. and a member of the company’s board of directors, will deliver the keynote address at the 2005 Alabama Business Hall of Fame induction ceremony Thursday, Oct. 6. The black-tie dinner and induction ceremony will be held at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus beginning at 7:30 p.m.