Gail Margolies Reid, author of a new book, “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Low-Cost Startups,” was one of the featured speakers Monday at the entrepreneurship camp which drew high school students from Tuscaloosa, Fayette, Pickens, Clay, Sumter, Perry, Wilcox, Hale, Lowndes, Marengo and Greene counties.
University of Alabama Honors College student Jackie Pitts was recently awarded an NSEP/Boren Scholarship to study Arabic in Jordan for the 2010-2011 academic year.
The University of Alabama has received a nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support a fellowship program for underrepresented minority graduate students studying in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
A record 10 University of Alabama students have been named to USA Today’s 2010 All-USA College Academic Team. Once again, UA led the nation with the most students on the team, and set a record for the most students any university has ever placed on the team in a single year. UA students Alan Blinder, Connor Johnson, Kendra Key, Dana Lewis, Joy Driver Aldridge, Richard Cockrum, Susan DeLeon, Amy Frees, Kalen Berry and Rebecca Long were named to the team.
Jessica Hetherington, a University of Alabama senior, is headed for China on a Fulbright Scholarship, fulfilling a dream she had at age 17.
UA’s concrete canoe team will trek to California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif., June 17-19, for the American Society of Civil Engineers’ National Concrete Canoe Competition
Moving out for the summer was made easier for students at The University of Alabama through the Give-N-Go program, sponsored by Housing & Residential Communities and the Community Service Center.
More than 150 University of Alabama students traveled statewide during the 2010 tax season to prepare more than 2,900 returns for working families.
The University of Alabama chapter of Order of Omega announced award recipients at their annual banquet held recently in Tuscaloosa. Order of Omega is the national honorary for fraternity and sorority members.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute will award $1.5 million to The University of Alabama to launch four distinct initiatives designed to teach and inspire the nation’s next-generation of scientists.