Thompson Receives UA Engineering’s Hackney Leadership Award
The T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership Award honors a faculty member who exemplifies the constant guidance and leadership necessary to make the College of Engineering exceptional.
Awards & Honors
Employee Organizations Use $5,000 Award to Serve Together
The Faculty Senate, the Professional Staff Assembly and the Office, Clerical and Technical Staff Assembly have teamed up for the first time to conduct joint service projects across campus and won a $5,000 award from the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) to support the projects.
APR Wins National Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
Alabama Public Radio is the 2018 winner of the national Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Radio for their investigative documentary “Help Wanted: Alabama’s Rural Health Care Crisis.”
Three UA Faculty Members Receive Fulbrights
Faculty members receiving Fulbright Awards: Dr. Angela D. Benson, professor of instruction technology; Dr. Steven Jones, professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering; and Dr. Catherine M. Roach, professor in New College in cultural studies and gender studies.
UA Student Receives Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship
University of Alabama student Raien Emery of Sheridan, Wyoming, will receive the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship for 2018-2020.
Play about Race, Basketball Wins Professor National Arts Grant
Seth Panitch, professor of acting and head of The University of Alabama’s acting programs, was awarded a $10,000 National Endowment of the Arts grant to produce his upcoming play, “Separate and Equal.”
UA Student Earns Boren Scholarship to Study in China
Hadley Spadaccini, a University of Alabama student, of Leesburg, Virginia, has received a Boren Scholarship for the study of languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad.
Faculty Accolades for April 30, 2018
The latest publications, exhibitions and awards earned by UA faculty.
Capstone Celebrates Arbor Day With Gift of Trees from Tuscaloosa
The University of Alabama Landscape and Grounds Advisory Board observed Arbor Day on campus April 24 by celebrating the successful relocation of 128 crape myrtle trees.
Tapping on the Mound 2018: Legendary Awards
The University of Alabama honored its top students for their academic achievements and leadership earlier this month during the Honors Day Tapping Ceremony, the highlight of UA’s annual Honors Week. The event is held on the historic mound on the Quad each year and features inductions to the Anderson Society, Mortar Board, Blue Key Honor Society and Omicron Delta Kappa .