Tips for a Healthy Start to the New Year
Some of the most popular resolutions year in and year out involve changing our eating habits to a lifestyle approach, rather than the latest diet fad.
Colleges & Schools
Tattoos Broadcast Enhanced Immunity, Stamina, UA Study Finds
Tattoos boost the skin’s immune response to injury and convey the person’s vitality, according to a study in American Samoa.
UA’s CW, Vida Win Student Pacemaker Awards
Two University of Alabama publications have won Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker awards for 2019.
Crimson White, Vida Win Student Pacemaker Awards
Two UA publications have won Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker awards for 2019.
UA Honors Opera Director with Blackmon-Moody Award
Dr. Paul Houghtaling, coordinator of voice and director of opera at The University of Alabama, received the 2019 Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award.
Two Named to AAF Most Promising Multicultural Students Class of 2020
Erica Howie and Gabbie Waller, both senior advertising majors, joined 48 other students around the country in the 2020 class.
Social Work Receives $3.2M Grant to Address State’s Opioid Overdoses
The University of Alabama School of Social Work and the Alabama Department of Mental Health’s efforts to stem opioid use and rates of overdose deaths in Alabama have a new focus: first responders.
Women, WWII Vets Overrepresented in Newspaper Photos
Women veterans and veterans of World War II appear more often in newspaper photos than their make-up of the country’s veterans, according to a study by researchers at The University of Alabama.
Want to Shed a Few Pounds? Researchers Test New Technology to Help
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a consortium of university researchers, led by The University of Alabama, a $2.5 million grant to further evaluate a wearable device designed to change eating behaviors.
UA to Hold 2019 Fall Commencement Exercises Dec. 14
The University of Alabama will hold its fall commencement exercises Saturday, Dec. 14, at Coleman Coliseum on the UA campus.