UA Student From Evanston Named to McNair Program
Latoya Scott of Evanston, Ill., has been selected as a 2005 McNair Scholar at The University of Alabama.
Awards & Honors
UA Student From Bristol Named to McNair Program
Adam Rankin of Bristol, Tenn., has been selected as a 2005 McNair Scholar at The University of Alabama.
UA Student From Atmore Named to McNair Program
Karla Martin of Atmore has been selected as a 2005 McNair Scholar at The University of Alabama.
Area UA Students Named to McNair Program
Ashley Al-Sayyad of Tuscaloosa, Renee Driskel of Cottondale, Crystal Murry of Aliceville, Wesley Nixon of Greensboro, and Antwon Prince of Duncanville, have been selected as 2005 McNair Scholars at The University of Alabama.
UA Alumni Magazine Wins National Award
The University of Alabama Office of Alumni Affairs’ Alabama Alumni Magazine has received an Award of Excellence in the 2005 APEX Awards for its winter 2004 edition.
UA Expert on Aging to Receive National Honor
Dr. Louis Burgio, distinguished research professor in psychology and director of the Center for Mental Health and Aging at The University of Alabama, has been selected this year’s recipient of the M. Powell Lawton award, one of the highest awards given nationally for outstanding contributions in the area of mentorship and innovations in applied gerontology.
UA Professor Receives Atlas Economic Research Foundation Award
Dr. James Otteson, chair of the philosophy department at The University of Alabama, will be awarded the seventh in a series of prizes from the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
UA Professor Honored by the Gerontological Society of America
Dr. Louis Burgio, Distinguished Research Professor in psychology at The University of Alabama, was awarded Fellow status by the Gerontological Society of America.
UA’s Center for Public Television Wins Unity Award For Documentary of State’s Poorest School System
“Trying Times: Perry County Schools,” The University of Alabama Center for Public Television’s documentary that tells the story – through the people of Perry County – of Alabama’s poorest school system, has received a Unity Award in Media.
Tuscaloosa Area Dean’s List Students Named at UA
A total of 3,485 students enrolled during the spring 2005 term 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 (all As).