Acclaimed jazz musician Wadada Leo Smith will headline the first concert of the 2017-2018 University of Alabama Sonic Frontiers concert series Oct. 15. The concert will start at 7:30 p.m. at UA’s Frank Moody Music Building concert hall. Admission is free.
MBA students in the Manderson Graduate School of Business at The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce have returned from the recent 2017 National Black MBA Association/FCA US National Graduate Student Case Competition in Philadelphia as big winners.
About a year ago, the Tuscaloosa County Park and Recreation Authority along with the Arts & Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa approached University of Alabama Art and Sculpture Professor Craig Wedderspoon with the idea of putting public art in all the county’s parks. The first sculptures will be installed in the near future.
Reducing news coverage of rampage shooters’ personal information, like their names and photos, could be a deterrent to future mass shooters, according to a researcher at The University of Alabama.
Faye Black, an alumna of the 1955 Million Dollar Band, stepped onto the field of Bryant-Denny Stadium at The University of Alabama as part of its Alumni Band, which performs once a year.
When a normally cold stream in Iceland was warmed, the make-up of life inside changed as larger organisms thrived while smaller ones struggled. The findings carry implications for life in a warming climate as the experiment shows mobile organisms should fare better than those adapted to cooler temperatures unable to disperse.
New and expanded graduate education programs at The University of Alabama are transforming the campus and fueling UA’s mission to take on a more innovative and influential role in American higher education.
UA alumnus Bob Hines was selected for NASA’s 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. He was chosen as one of 12 candidates from a pool of 18,300 applicants – the largest number of applicants in the space program’s history.
Titles like best in the world still don’t sit well with University of Alabama doctorate of musical arts candidate Joshua Williams. But, the 25-year-old Tuscaloosa native will have to get used to them, because the French horn virtuoso recently won first place in the professional division of the International Horn Competition of America.
Performing in front of millions of fans each year, the Million Dollar Band has been a Crimson Tide tradition for 105 years. But what does it take to become that “ONE” in a million?