Thomas Nickless McCain Devin, a senior in mechanical engineering at The University of Alabama, recently received a scholarship from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Scholarship and Fellowship program. Devin is the first UA student to receive a scholarship from the Homeland Security program.
The University of Alabama Coordinating Council for Student Organizations proudly announces that the UA Student Alumni Association has been named the Student Organization of the Month for October.
Courtney Sanders, a University of Alabama student from Corner, has been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for the spring semester to study in Egypt at the American University in Cairo.
The opening of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park, the nation’s 12th and newest Presidential Library, had a special Alabama flair to it, thanks to the work of Michael Eady, a University of Alabama senior public relations major from Birmingham (zip code 35124) who contributed as assistant to the deputy director of the Clinton Foundation.
The University of Alabama’s Dr. Beth Todd, associate professor of mechanical engineering, recently received the 2004 Student Section Advisor by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Todd was honored with the top national award at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress in Anaheim, Calif.
Dr. Stephen J. Thoma, professor and chair of human development and family studies at The University of Alabama’s College of Human Environmental Sciences, recently received national recognition, being named a recipient of the Association for Moral Education’s Kuhmerker Award.
The University of Alabama College of Human Environmental Sciences recently presented the Jack Davis Professional Achievement Award to John Rodney Brown of Tuscaloosa; Amy Curry of Houston, Tex.; Linda Godfrey of Vestavia Hills; Lee Green of College Station, Tex.; Linda Newell of Chicago, Ill.; Pam Oldacre Northway of Somerville; and Stella Rainey of Tuscaloosa.
Dr. Robert F. Olin, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Alabama, has been appointed chair of the American Mathematical Society’s Committee on Science Policy.
The 2004 Ian Campbell Medal, the American Geological Institute’s most distinguished award, was presented to Dr. Ernest A. Mancini, professor of geological sciences at The University of Alabama, at an awards ceremony in Denver earlier this month.
The University of Alabama Board of Trustees has conferred the highest honor it gives to a faculty member to Dr. Robin Rogers, professor of chemistry in UA’s College of Arts and Sciences. Rogers has been named a University of Alabama Distinguished Research Professor by the board.