J. Frank Barefield Jr. College of Arts and Sciences

UA’s Paul Jones Gallery Features K-12 Artists from Tuscaloosa

Students from Tuscaloosa Magnet Middle School and University Place Elementary School will display their artwork at The University of Alabama’s Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art from Nov. 22 to Dec. 21 as part of the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art’s K-12 Fellows Program.

UA Couple Each Win Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Jim Knight, a professor emeritus of anthropology at The University of Alabama, and his wife Dr. Judith Knight, were each awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southeastern Archaeological Conference for their decades of groundbreaking work in the field of archaeology in the South.

UA Astronomy to Host Supermoon Viewing Event

UA Astronomy to Host Supermoon Viewing Event

The University of Alabama’s department of physics and astronomy will hold a public viewing of the “supermoon” that will be visible Nov. 14.

Panitch Wins UA’s Blackmon-Moody Award

Panitch Wins UA’s Blackmon-Moody Award

Seth Panitch, professor of acting in The University of Alabama’s department of theatre and dance, has earned the 2016 Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award.

UA’s Hidden Humanities Guest Lecturer to Discuss ‘Black Lives Matter’

UA’s Hidden Humanities Guest Lecturer to Discuss ‘Black Lives Matter’

Dr. Houston A. Baker, a professor of English and African American and diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University, will present “The Black Bottom Line: Reflections on Ferguson, Black Lives Matter, and White Male Violence in America” Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. in room 205 of Gorgas Library on The University of Alabama campus.

Next Steps Planned for UA Performing Arts Academic Center

Next Steps Planned for UA Performing Arts Academic Center

The University of Alabama is in the final stage of planning a new $60 million Performing Arts Academic Center.

UA Political Science Assistant Professor Discusses Upcoming Election

Welcome to my UA World: Brown Chronicles Tuscaloosa Cemeteries

Welcome to my UA World: Brown Chronicles Tuscaloosa Cemeteries

There are a number of leisure activities a person may choose to undertake in their downtime. For Dr. Ian Brown, of The University of Alabama, these activities often include visiting gravesites throughout the United States.

UA Professor Says Seeing Candy Causes Narrowed Focus

UA Professor Says Seeing Candy Causes Narrowed Focus

Halloween chocolate is everywhere: your office, home, prominent displays in grocery stores. Athough the adverse physical effects of indulging in chocolate are known before unwrapping the first of many pieces, the sight of Halloween candy also has psychological effects.

UA Students to Demonstrate Medieval Architecture Techniques

UA Students to Demonstrate Medieval Architecture Techniques

In a demonstration of how art and mathematics work together, University of Alabama art history students will show how the scale plan of the Cathedral of Amiens was laid out using simple tools, such as wooden mallets, stakes, string and a mason’s square, on the Quad from 9 a.m. to noon Friday, Nov. 4.