Astronomers have predicted that big black holes sit at the center of all galaxies. A University of Alabama professor has contributed to a study that found one such black hole a million times as massive as our sun in the middle of eating a large star with a mass twice that of our sun.
Nominations for the annual Lahoma Adams Buford Peace Award can now be submitted online.
Outstanding high school sophomores who have shown an interest in leadership through service were selected to participate in the Capstone Leadership Academy at The University of Alabama.
University of Alabama graduate student Candace Chamber’s will receive the 2017 Scholars for the Dream Travel Award from the National Council of Teachers of English.
The Scholars for the Dream Travel Award is a national award given to emerging scholars of color – graduate students – who are embarking on scholarship that is promising, said Dr. Michelle Robinson, an assistant professor of English at UA.
The University of Alabama women’s wheelchair basketball team won its fifth national championship today.
There won’t be a post-spring break re-acclimation for a small group of social work students at The University of Alabama.
The College of Communication and Information Sciences won multiple student and professional awards at the local American Advertising Awards.
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.”
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.
A few University of Alabama engineering majors have spent the past five months researching and developing a plan to create a replica of an 18th century British Hanger rapier that has been part of UA Museums for the last half century.