Students

Innovative UA Start-Up Advances to Business Competition Finale

A University of Alabama start-up company developing technology to charge cell phones, and other portable devices, wirelessly advanced today to the finale of a state-wide business competition.

UA Student Filmmakers Win Top National Awards

Two telecommunication and film students from The University of Alabama recently won best director, best film and best editor at the 2013 Campus MovieFest.

UA MIS Program Ranked Fourth Among Public Institutions

The Management Information Systems program at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce is ranked No. 4 among public universities and No. 8 among all universities, according to the 2013 Bloomberg Businessweek rankings.

UA Hosts College Mentoring Program for High-School Juniors

Rising high-school juniors in Ernst & Young LLP’s College Mentoring for Access and Persistence program, or MAP, will have the opportunity to participate in a summer camp from Sunday, July 7, to Friday, July 12, at The University of Alabama.

Dean’s List Students Named for UA Spring 2013 Term

A total of 7,822 students enrolled during the 2013 spring semester at The University of Alabama were named to the Dean’s List with an academic record of 3.5 (or above) or the President’s List with an academic record of 4.0 (all As).

When Nobel Prize Winners Are Your Mentors

Two University of Alabama chemistry students are blogging about their stay in Germany where they’re interacting with Nobel Prize winners.

UA Engineering Student Selected for Eisenhower Fellowship

The Federal Highway Administration recently awarded an Eisenhower Grant for Research Fellowship to Owen Killeen, a University of Alabama senior in civil engineering, as part of the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program.

UA’s REACH Hosts High-School Students for Pre-College Program

A select group of high-school students who are living in foster care, have been emancipated recently or are wards of the state will have the opportunity to participate in a pre-collegiate summer program at The University of Alabama through the nsoro Foundation of Atlanta.

Two UA Students to Meet 35 Nobel Laureates in Germany

The first week of July will see 35 Nobel Laureates congregate at Lake Constance in Germany to meet the next generation of leading scientists and researchers, including two University of Alabama chemistry students, at the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

UA Undergraduate Wins Competitive Marine Microbiology Internship

University of Alabama student Zoe Nichols, a sophomore from Tuscaloosa majoring in marine science and biology with a minor in geology, has earned a prestigious four-week internship at Wrigley Marine Science Center on Santa Catalina Island in California.