When Christine Ferguson was a UA freshman, she knew she wanted to pursue a career in the medical field. Now she’s pursuing a doctorate at UA and is fascinated by the role nutrition plays in a person’s ailment.
Alabama’s 40-50 snake species are now on the loose looking for food and mates during their most active period of the year – spring to early summer.
For the fifth consecutive year, the student robotics team from The University of Alabama won NASA’s grand prize in its Robotics Mining Competition.
The Capstone Rural Health Center recently received the state of Alabama’s only grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration to increase access to substance abuse prevention and treatment services in rural populations.
The Office, Clerical and Technical Staff Assembly recognized two of its members for going above and beyond their regular duties in supporting their department, co-workers and the University.
The Rude Mechanicals, Tuscaloosa’s free Shakespeare in the park company, is starting its 17th season with the problem play “Measure for Measure,” directed by Dr. Steve Burch, UA professor of theatre.
A long-awaited, rigorous, randomized clinical trial comparing treatments for tinnitus, a perception of ringing in the ears, found no significant difference in patient outcomes between an innovative treatment and the current standard treatment.
After conducting surveys on the Magnolia Grove plantation home in Hale County, second-year anthropology graduate student Natalie Mooney may have discovered a pattern to find other slave houses in the Alabama Black Belt region that have been lost to time.
The University of Alabama was awarded a $300,000 grant from one of the largest foundations in the country to archive LGBTQ history in the South. The grant, given by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will allow the University and its partner, the Invisible Histories Project, to curate collections across the South, starting in Alabama and moving to Mississippi and Georgia.
A UA student group will photograph and interview artists who live in the Black Belt as part of a collaborative initiative between the University, the nonprofit Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center and Canon Solutions America.