Ripple Effect
Ripple Effect is the annual day of service during Week of Welcome that provides an important opportunity for new and returning students to get connected and reconnected to the Tuscaloosa community.
UA Move-In Day
Artistic Expressions
UA Students were given the opportunity to paint an image of their choice. UA Crossroads Director Lane McLelland hopes activities like painting will help the students develop new ways of thinking and inspire creativity, as they enter a new school year.
Alabama Action
Alabama Action provides a student-created service-learning experience for 150 Honors College freshmen. This year students are painting, preparing classrooms and creating outdoor learning spaces at Vance Elementary School.
UA holds Kente Robing Ceremony
The Black Faculty/Staff Association at The University of Alabama held a Kente Robing Ceremony on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, before the summer commencement exercises.
A Survivor Comes Home
Saved from the Holocaust, a Torah is brought to Temple Emanu-El on the UA campus, where a member of the congregation helps discover its true – and astounding – age.
Interview with UA Panhellenic President Pamela Sox
The University of Alabama’s Sorority Fall Formal Recruitment begins on Friday, August 5. UA Panhellenic President, Pamela Sox, has been preparing for the largest sorority recruitment in the nation for the past year.
UA SITE camp
UA Grads Commissioned Into Marine Corps
Reagan and Rebecca Reynolds tied the knot in December 2015, their senior year at The University of Alabama. But these college sweethearts had one more commitment to make before leaving Tuscaloosa: gaining their commissions in the United States Marine Corps. The Reynolds were commissioned as Second Lieutenants into the Marines on Friday, July 15. Rebecca
Suspending Belief: Virtual Reality Lab Provides Coping, Research Opportunities
In the spring of 2013, The University of Alabama School of Social Work installed a virtual reality lab in Farrah Hall, becoming the third university in the country to have a social work VR lab. As a research tool, the Virtual Reality lab will allow researchers to expose participants to stimuli that otherwise may be