Honors Week Events at UA Highlight Scholarship, Leadership
The University of Alabama will recognize the achievement of outstanding students and faculty during Honors Week activities on campus April 1-6.
Faculty & Staff
Parrish Receives UA Engineering’s T. Morris Hackney Leadership Award
The University of Alabama College of Engineering announced Dr. Allen S. Parrish, professor and director of the Center for Advanced Public Safety, as the 2012 T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership award recipient.
Project Rebound UA Assists Students Affected by Tornado
The Project Rebound program at The University of Alabama is offering crisis counseling for students impacted by the April 2011 tornadoes.
UA Criminal Justice Professor Recognized with Buford Peace Award
Dr. Bronwen Lichtenstein, associate professor and graduate director in the department of criminal justice at The University of Alabama, has been selected the winner of the 2012 Lahoma Adams Buford Peace Award.
Sleep Out on the Quad to be Sponsored by UA Community Service Center
The University of Alabama Community Service Center will host its annual Sleep Out on the Quad Wednesday, March 28, to promote awareness of homelessness issues.
UA Social Work Instructor to Hold Workshop in Tuskegee
In observance of Social Work Month, University of Alabama instructor Joanne Terrell will conduct a six-hour workshop focusing on values and ethical principles for social workers. The workshop will be held March 23 in Building 90 at the Veteran’s Assistance Medical Center in Tuskegee.
UA Researchers Win Grant to Study How Congregations Can Reduce AIDS Stigma
University of Alabama researchers have received a multiyear grant to examine the role that African-American congregations can play in reducing HIV/AIDS-related stigma in rural Alabama.
UA Listed on National Honor Roll for Community Service
The University of Alabama has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for helping the community through service and service-learning partnerships.
Photographer to Present Talk on Cuban Collaboration and Book at UA
A research collaboration between Chip Cooper, noted Alabama photographer and faculty member in The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences, and Cuban Néstor Martí, a photographer for the Office of the Havana, has resulted in “Old Havana/La Habana Vieja,” a photography book released by The University of Alabama Press.
UA Engineering Professor Receives Grant to Make New Magnetic Material
The United States Department of Energy recently awarded a University of Alabama engineering professor, along with a team of researchers, a $1.26 million grant for an effort to create a bulk permanent magnet from alternatives to current rare earth minerals.