Community Outreach

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New UA Facility Focused on Water Will Support Research, Economic Development  

UA will open the Wiregrass Hub, a facility focused on water research, community engagement and student recruitment, in downtown Enterprise.

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No Veteran Left Behind: Students Teach Technology, Build Connections

UA students are helping veterans confront technological challenges.

Go Fetch: Teaching an AI-Powered Robot Dog New Tricks

Go Fetch: Teaching an AI-Powered Robot Dog New Tricks

Meet the student-built robot dog inspiring the next generation of programmers and engineers.

Students involved with Beat Auburn Beat Hunger showing number signage revealing the total donations raised this year

Beat Auburn Beat Hunger Sets Record in 2025

Beat Auburn Beat Hunger raised a record 630,624 pounds of food during its annual food drive.

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UA Crowns 2025 Homecoming Queen

Morgan Grzybowski, a senior from Wildwood, Missouri, is UA’s 2025 Homecoming Queen.

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Honoring Alabama’s Rural Veterans: Supporting Service and Strengthening Communities

Alabama rural veterans serve beyond the uniform. Research shows how communities can support them.

Three Witt Fellows pose in front of a Marion, Alabama sign

Witt Fellows Program Prepares Global Citizens

Open to incoming freshmen, the cohort of about 20-25 students is immersed in experiences that challenge how they see the world.

Warriors Bend band members

‘Battle’ Breaks Fundraising Record

The event’s highest earnings were about $8,500 in 2023, mostly through ticket sales and sponsorships.

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4 Student Bands to Jam for a Good Cause Oct. 11

The event is an annual fundraiser for the Student Government Association’s Joe Espy Needs-Based Scholarship.

UA students in long pants and work gloves dig and brush away dirt at the archaeological field school on the University of Alabama campus.

Digging Deep: UA Students Unearth Campus History

Students are excavating a section of a pre-Civil War dormitory as part of an archaeological field school on The University of Alabama campus.