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UA’s Plank Center Hosts Inaugural Challenge for Emerging Leaders

UA’s Plank Center Hosts Inaugural Challenge for Emerging Leaders

UA’s Plank Center Hosts Inaugural “Challenge for Emerging Leaders,” an intensive, two-day leadership workshop for engaged, high-achieving and diverse university seniors majoring in public relations.

State Engineering Hall of Fame Inducts 2017 Class

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame inducted five individuals and honored a corporation during a recent ceremony at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Spa. The following five individuals join the 173 inducted into the Hall of Fame over the past 29 years: Brian D. Barr of Birmingham; Bill L. Harbert, formerly of Birmingham;

UA Professor: Political Identity More Complex than Traditional Labels

A person’s political identity – for instance “strong conservative” or “moderate liberal” – means something different from place to place, according to a psychology researcher at The University of Alabama.

UA Offers Demo Day for The Edge Business Incubator

The Edge incubator, in partnership with the Alabama Entrepreneurship Institute at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce, will host the first Demo Day Friday, Feb. 24, at the Bryant Conference Center.

UA Professor to Hold Reading for ‘Crunk Feminist Collection’

UA Professor to Hold Reading for ‘Crunk Feminist Collection’

A University of Alabama professor and her co-authors are holding a public reading of their work on black feminism, “The Crunk Feminist Collective.”

Women in STEM

Women are making strides in STEM fields, but there’s still work to be done.

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UA Leaps into 2017 with Ala. Repertory Dance Theatre

The University of Alabama’s theatre and dance department invites the UA and Tuscaloosa communities to its spring performance of the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre.

Big Sandy Elementary fifth-graders surprised with Teddy Bears

UA’s SLIS to Award $7,000 in Free Books

The University of Alabama’s School of Library and Information Studies will award over $7,000 in new children’s and young adult books to five school libraries in the Black Belt region of the state and one school library in an economically deprived area of Alabama outside of the Black Belt Region through its SLIS Book Bonanza for the Black Belt (and Beyond) program.

UA Awards Winners of High School Physics Contest

UA Awards Winners of High School Physics Contest

More than 150 students representing 16 schools recently competed in The University of Alabama’s 41st annual high school physics contest.