Awards & Honors

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Tears Turn to Success for Graduate Student

Jennie Thies starts her fourth year with more confidence after winning a highly competitive national grant, the NIH Diversity Research Supplement, a two-year pre-doctoral fellowship that covers tuition and health care and provides a stipend supporting her research in the Caldwell Lab.

Students pose with administrators to show off their Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award plaques.

Randall Outstanding Undergrad Research Awards Recognize Innovation

The Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Program recognizes the best research activity conducted by undergraduate students at The University of Alabama.

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‘The Boat People’ Author Wins Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction

The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal announced that Sharon Bala, author of “The Boat People,” will receive the 2019 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction at an Aug. 29 ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

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Faculty and Staff Accolades for June 24, 2019

The latest publications, performances and awards of the UA faculty and staff.

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UA’s ‘Legends’ Named Top Ad Campaign in International Competition

The University of Alabama won three honors in the 2019 Circle of Excellence awards sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, including the top honor worldwide for advertising campaigns in higher education.

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Dean’s List Students Named for UA Spring 2019 Term

A total of 11,406 students enrolled during the 2019 spring term at The University of Alabama were named to the Dean’s List with an academic record of 3.5 or above, or the President’s List with an academic record of 4.0 (all A’s).

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Crimson Racing Brings Home Best Finish to Date

Success for UA’s Forumula SAE team did not come easy. The 18-member student team had to overcome a few small mechanical and electrical issues that needed to be addressed before competition.

Engineering Seniors Win Second Consecutive IEEE Robotic Competition

Engineering Seniors Win Second Consecutive IEEE Robotic Competition

For the second consecutive year, a senior robotics team from The University of Alabama took home a win at an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers regional conference.

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PSA Presents Outstanding Professional Awards

Greg Gaddis and Whitney Sewell were named as 2019 Outstanding Professionals by The University of Alabama Professional Staff Assembly.

UA Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi Inducts Members

UA Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi Inducts Members

The University of Alabama chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi — the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines — inducted members in spring 2019.