Faculty & Staff

Long-time UA Professor, Administrator Douglas E. Jones Dies

Dr. Douglas E. Jones, professor emeritus of geological sciences at The University of Alabama and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, died April 2, 2010 after a brief illness. He was 79.

Honors Week at UA Recognizes Scholarship, Leadership

The University of Alabama will recognize the achievement of outstanding students and faculty during 2010 Honors Week activities on campus April 5-9.

Top Community Engagement Projects to be Named at UA’s CCBP Awards Program

The Center for Community-Based Partnerships at The University of Alabama will present awards for the best faculty, student and community initiated engagement projects Friday, April 23, at the Hotel Capstone.

Pivots of History: UA Professor Chronicles Foreign Policy During the Civil War

In a new book, Dr. Howard Jones of The University of Alabama describes just how close Britain, and other European powers, came to stepping in between North and South.

UA’s Manderson Graduate School Among 15 Listed in Princeton Review

The Manderson Graduate School of Business at The University of Alabama is among the 15 graduate schools of business named to The Princeton Review’s Second Annual “Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools” list in the marketing, accounting and operations categories.

Fridley Receives UA Engineering’s Hackney Leadership Award

The University of Alabama College of Engineering announced Dr. Kenneth J. Fridley, professor and head of civil, construction and environmental engineering, as the 2010 T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership award recipient.

UA Presents Full-Length ‘Cinderella’ Ballet

The University of Alabama department of theatre and dance presents the Sergei Prokofiev ballet “Cinderella” from Monday, March 29, to Saturday, April 3, at the Gallaway Theatre in Rowand-Johnson Hall in the UA Theatre District.

UA Professor Collaborates to Produce Louisiana French Dictionary

Dr. Michael A. Picone, professor of French and linguistics at The University of Alabama, serves as an assistant editor on a dictionary that preserves French as spoken in Louisiana.

Public Invited to Join UA’s Life Project

An informational meeting about The University of Alabama’s Life Project will be held March 28 from 10:30 a.m.-noon at University Church of Christ.

UA Dance Professor Recognized at Festival

Students and faculty members from The University of Alabama’s department of theatre and dance won recent recognition at the regional American College Dance Festival in Murfreesboro, Tenn.