UA School of Social Work Accepts Nominations for Buford Peace Award
Nominations for the annual Lahoma Adams Buford Peace Award can now be submitted online.
Faculty & Staff
UA’s Religious Studies Department Marks 50th Anniversary
Now, five decades later, UA’s department of religious studies is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a showcase of its accomplishments by students, graduates and faculty.
“A lot of units would invite people from outside to talk, as part of these celebrations, but we reasoned that the strength of our department is its current students, past students and our faculty,” McCutcheon said. “So our logic is we wanted to highlight those three groups.”
Chinese History Teacher Learning Social Work Education at UA
Wenjie Chai has spent a considerable amount of time caring for her children and her elders in the countryside of the Anhui Province of China.
UA’s ‘Where Legends Are Made’ Campaign Wins Advertising Awards
The University of Alabama’s new branding campaign, Where Legends Are Made, recently collected multiple advertising awards. The campaign, which launched in September 2016, picked up accolades from judges in the American Advertising Awards competition in two cities as well as a national award from the Higher Education Association.
Educational Studies’ Graduate Research Symposium Accepting Proposals
The 2017 ESPRMC Graduate Research Symposim will be held Thursday, April 13. As many as five $500 travel awards will be presented to the top graduate students this year.
Welcome to my UA World: Morrison Coaches Equestrian Program
As two horses circle her in the ring, Ashley Morrison voices recommendations to the athletes atop them.
UA Hosts Three-Day Digital Humanities Conference, “Digitorium”
College professors from across the U.S. and Europe are headed to The University of Alabama this week to take part in the Digitorium, a three-day digital humanities conference.
The Digitorium will take place at Gorgas Library and Morgan Hall March 2-4. University Libraries and the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies in the English department are sponsoring the conference.
UA’s Gorgas House Museum Highlights WWI Contributions
Contributions made by William C. Gorgas during World War I is the feature of a new exhibit opening at UA’s Gorgas House Museum on Saturday, March 4.
UA Center Sends Reading Kits to Black Belt Schools
The University of Alabama Center for Economic Development, along with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, is promoting the National Education Association’s Read Across America Day by providing Dr. Seuss-themed reading kits to 21 schools in seven counties in the Black Belt region.
Annual Civil War Lectures to be Held at UA
A series of lectures about the Civil War will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 1, in Sellers Auditorium at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.