Colleges & Schools

UA, Tuscaloosa Fire, Rescue Partner to Expand Services

UA, Tuscaloosa Fire, Rescue Partner to Expand Services

Tuscaloosa Fire and Rescue Service partnered with The University of Alabama’s University Medical Center to develop ACTION, a program that responds to the less critical needs of the community and reduces costly hospital emergency room transports and care.

UA’s Medical Practice Recognized as Patient-Centered Medical Home

UA’s Medical Practice Recognized as Patient-Centered Medical Home

University Medical Center was nationally certified in December as a Patient-Centered Medical Home in recognition of its commitment to patients while improving quality and lowering health care costs.

Partnership Brings UA, Pakistan Researchers Together

Partnership Brings UA, Pakistan Researchers Together

A professor at The University of Alabama is part of an international team performing geological research in northeast Pakistan aiming to understand where possible oil and gas deposits reside beneath the surface.

UA Office to Promote International Family-Oriented Early Intervention Model

UA Office to Promote International Family-Oriented Early Intervention Model

The University of Alabama College of Education has launched the Evidence-based International Early Intervention Office to promote an intervention model designed for children younger than 6 with disabilities and their families.

David (Oggi) Ogburn, Cheryl Lynn. Gelatin silver print.

Elementary Students to Showcase Art at UA’s Paul R. Jones Museum

Fifteen students from Arcadia Elementary School will display their artwork alongside pieces from the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at The University of Alabama’s Paul R. Jones Museum from Jan. 10 to Feb. 23.

Civil War Opera Lands National Recognition

Civil War Opera Lands National Recognition

The University of Alabama’s Opera Theatre won second place in the National Opera Association’s Opera Production Competition for its earlier world-premiere chamber opera production “Freedom and Fire! A Civil War Story.”

Solving Galactic Mysteries a Few Minutes at a Time

Solving Galactic Mysteries a Few Minutes at a Time

A project led by an astronomer at The University of Alabama that includes amateur astronomers will use gaps in the schedule of the Hubble Space Telescope to get a better look at oddities found in the sky.

UA Study to Take ‘Deep Dive’ into Risk Factors for Veterans, Suicides

UA Study to Take ‘Deep Dive’ into Risk Factors for Veterans, Suicides

University of Alabama researchers, America’s Warrior Partnership and The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation have partnered on a four-year, $2.9 million study to explore risk factors that contribute to suicides, early mortality and self-harm among military veterans.

HES Major Uses Tragedy to Power Career Ambitions

HES Major Uses Tragedy to Power Career Ambitions

Kaitlyn Jacoby, who will earn a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education Dec. 16 at Coleman Coliseum, was orphaned at the age of 16 after both her mother and father died of cancer.

UA Launches Campaign for Performing Arts on Former Bryce Property

UA Launches Campaign for Performing Arts on Former Bryce Property

The University of Alabama has launched a campaign to raise $15 million in private donations to support the construction of a new Performing Arts Academic Center on the former Bryce Hospital property.