School libraries in the state of Alabama have long suffered a lack of state and federal funding for new books, but for nine schools throughout the Black Belt and the state, that’s going to change.During...
On Tuesday, about 25 students gathered at The Source and UA Crossroads on the third floor of Ferguson Student Center for International Study Hall. The study hall takes place every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. and...
The University of Alabama encourages students to seek help in a video that addressed student suicide awareness. The video, emailed out by the University, included students, staff and administration....
WHAT: UA Makerspace Workshop – Capturing the Past: Scanning and Printing FossilsWHO: College of Arts & SciencesWHEN: Wednesday, March 3, 2 - 3 p.m.WHERE: Rodgers LibraryWHY: “In general, these workshops...
A body of a boy remained on the ground for four and a half hours.Adrian Walker, a 25-year-old photographer, was driving home from a wedding on Aug. 9, 2014, listening to the radio when the news erupted...
WHAT: “Students Get Creative: Burke Art Show” Two artists have created two pieces of art that will be hung on one of the walls in Burke. Appetizers and mocktails will be served and a jazz trio will...
In front of a packed house in Gorgas Library Room 205 the University of Alabama Feminist Caucus, UA Blend and Collegiate 100 Black Men hosted the “Black Girls Rise” panel discussion. The panel on...
Normal operations and classes for The University of Alabama will be suspended at 6:30 p.m. tonight due to local weather predictions. The worst of weather tonight is supposed to hit the Tuscaloosa area...
WHAT: “Black Girls Rise” Panel DiscussionWHO: The University of Alabama Feminist Caucus, Blend and Collegiate 100 Black Men will host the panel. Panelists include Amanda Bennett, student activist and...
Students, faculty, staff and community members gathered in Little Hall Room 223 on Friday, Feb. 19, for the 27th Annual “Dr. Ethel H. Hall African American Heritage Month Celebration” with guest speaker Clinton...
WHAT: “African American Read-In.” Students, faculty and staff will have the chance to read poems, passages of prose and songs by African American authors in honor of Black History Month and to celebrate...
On Wednesday, Feb. 17, the Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Program hosted a screening of “Pelo Malo” in Ten Hoor Hall Room 125 at 6 p.m. The film, directed by Mariana Rondon, is set...
Standing 60 feet tall and made up of approximately 112,000 cubic yards of dirt, Alabama’s tallest mound began receiving a make-over on Saturday, Feb. 6. The Mound B steps at Moundville Archaeological...
The Tuscaloosa County Democrats hosted “Go Granny D” on Thursday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Student Theater. Off-Broadway actress Barbara Smith Bates portrayed Doris Haddock, “Granny D”,...
“Depriving yourself is like how a diabetic would feel if they didn’t take their insulin.”Virginia Skipper said that it wasn’t until her physician made that comparison that she finally understood...
The steady decline in mental health services across the United States and the mass closing of mental health institutions that provide vital psychological car, for mentally ill patients has led to the criminalization...
WHAT: “Go Granny D”WHO: Actress and Alabama native Barbara Bates Smith will portray Doris Haddock, “Granny D”, who was a social activist passionate about the need for campaign finance reform. At...
Debate continues to flare up concerning sexual assault statistics reported on college campuses.But data from several recent national surveys agreed on at least one fact regarding universities. Whether...
The Suder Foundation, a private foundation based in Plano, Texas, has filed suit against The University of Alabama alleging the University breached a contract between the two after a premature cancellation...
The Institute for Rural Health Research hosted the Tuscaloosa Hemorrhagic Control Forum (Stop the Bleeding) on Thursday, Jan. 28, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Bryant Conference Center. The crowd in attendance...
The University of Alabama Feminist Caucus hosted a panel discussion called “Deconstructing [Dis]Ability” on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 7:15 p.m. in Ferguson Student Center Room 3107. The panel specifically...
WHAT: Hemorrhagic Control Forum (Stop the Bleeding)WHO: The University of Alabama’s Institute for Rural Health Research is hosting the forum. The key note speaker for this event will be Dr. Alexander...
WHAT: “Deconstructing [Dis]ability” panel discussion held by the UA Feminist CaucusWHO: Beth Overland, Deaf Support Specialist at the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services Dr. Nirmala Erevelles,...
WHAT: Four Scholars Discuss Intimacy and RaceWHO: Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of New York Times bestseller Wench (Amistad, 2011) and Balm (Amistad, 2015)Trudier Harris, professor of English at UASharony...
WHAT: “Spring Get On Board Day: Excursion”The theme for this year’s SGOBD is “EXCURSION: Explore. Discover. Get Involved.”“Students have the opportunity to visit the SOURCE Involvement Genius...
The University of Alabama launched its newly redesigned website on Dec. 21. The new design is more compatible on all screen sizes and is highly visual and more focused on user navigation. “The new UA.edu...
By Patrick Smith | Staff ReporterAn iconic restaurant that has served UA students, faculty and Tuscaloosa residents for 20 years is now for sale.Rama Jama’s, which is owned by Gary Lewis, has fed customers...
With the increasing number of out-of-state students attending the University, some of them face a tough decision when it comes to breaks for the holidays. Stay in Tuscaloosa or pay a high fee just to...
Education Outreach will begin expanding in the spring semester in an effort to get more UA Honors College students involved in Tuscaloosa area schools. The purpose of Education Outreach is to take Honors...
Students and professors gathered in Smith Hall Room 205 on Thursday to listen to the second in this year’s Philosophy Today lecture series. The lecture titled “What is Physicalism,” was given...
Mizzou isn't the only university concerned with lack of diversity this week.At 8 a.m., an interchanging group of 20 to 40 students dressed in all black stood outside the doors of Rose Administration,...
On Thursday, women from around the Tuscaloosa area gathered at the Home2Suites hotel at 10 a.m. for the 2015 Women in Business Awards. The event, titled The Pink Toolbox, honored two local businesswomen...
WHAT: Blocking the Vote: Voter Suppression in AlabamaWHO: Panelists will include Director of the Civil Rights Memorial Center and SPLC Outreach Director Lecia Brooks, political science Department Chair...
The UA Feminist Caucus hosted the second annual State of the (Queer) Union Address Oct. 21 in the Ferguson Student Center addressing the issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community today.The panel specifically...
The Women and Gender Resource Center will hold a Harbor Training session on Oct. 20 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in Room G54 of the Rose Administration building. The session is targeted toward faculty,...
The Second Annual Opera Guild Gala will be held on Friday Oct. 2, at 7:00 p.m. in the Grand Gallery of the Alabama Museum of Natural History in Smith Hall. Tickets are $100 and went on sale August 16....
Former University of Alabama police department Lieutenant John Hooks has been named the new UAPD Chief of Police according to Chris Bryant, Interim Director of Media Relations. The selection was announced...
With the rise of the Internet has come a rise in a relatively new form of crime, crime that does not entail the use of guns, knives or other traditional weaponry. Technology has elicited an expanse of...
The Women and Gender Resource Center will host the fifth annual Chocolate Festival on Friday, Sept. 25 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Shelby Hall Rotunda.The event is open to the public and tickets may be...
The University of Alabama Feminist Caucus hosted “Find Your Feminism” in the Ferguson Student Center on September 17. The event provided information about the feminist movement, as well as information...
The University of Alabama Feminist Caucus will host “Find Your Feminism” on Wednesday, September 16 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in room 3107/300 in the Ferguson Student Center. The event will resemble a...
A University of Alabama researcher recently completed a study showing that light drinkers and abstainers react the same as binge drinkers when seeing images of alcohol. Dr. Philip Gable, associate professor...
The University of Alabama’s secondary math education program in the College of Education has received recognition from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The NCTM two-year designation...
The University of Alabama’s Feminist Caucus will host a rally on Friday, August 27th. The rally, “Celebrating Women!” will be held in front of Ferguson Student Center at 5:00 p.m. to promote the...
First Year Council applications for the Student Government Association are due on August 30th. FYC is a way for freshmen who are interested in student government to enter into the SGA for the first...
A University of Alabama researcher helped lead a study on the potential effects rising sea levels can have on wetlands using a new, low-cost, on-site method designed by scientists.Julia Cherry, an associate...
A UA professor received a $200,000 grant from the Imagination Institute to study the correlation between imaginative play and cognitive development in children.Dr. Ansley Gilpin, assistant professor of...
By Patrick Smith | Contributing WriterThe Tuscaloosa Police Department and the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Department arrested two suspects Monday. They were wanted in connection to a murder in Bibb...
A University of Alabama biologist has recently received a $1 million grant to do research on bumblebees.Jeff Lozier, an assistant professor of biological sciences, along with two collaborators from the...
University Medical Center, which is operated by The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences, opened a new location in Northport July 1.University Medical Center-Northport, located in...
Starting July 4 and running through Labor Day, 19 Tuscaloosa area businesses will be participating in the annual event “Save the Black Warrior.” The event raises awareness for Black Warrior Riverkeeper,...
On June 3, the world of physics took a great leap forward.The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, started delivering data for the first time in over two years....
Look up and gaze at the night sky and all of its beauty. Astronomers have said this for a long time and the month of June has been no exception.In what tends to happen only every decade or two, Venus and...
By Patrick Smith | Contributing WriterTaylor Hardy, a sophomore majoring in accounting, recently completed an internship with Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) in his D.C. office.During her time in D.C. she...
High school students from all over Tuscaloosa County will gather on campus next week to participate in the kind of creative writing normally reserved for English students at the University.The UA Creative...
With the gift of a 19th-century post office desk from David Nelson, Gorgas House Museum Director Lydia Ellington has recreated the University’s first post office on the first floor of the Gorgas House...
It’s 2014, and Google is thriving as more than just a website. It is an easy answer to everything, a few clicks and letters away from obtaining a wealth information. It’s available on people’s phones,...
With statistics as high as one in five college students being sexually assaulted per year, it is safe for everyone to assume they have known at least one victim of sexual or domestic violence on campus,...
Improbable Fictions, a University of Alabama Shakespeare production group of theatre students, English department teachers and graduate students, is bringing some of Shakespeare’s most famous work to...
For more than a decade, the quaint, well-kept University of Alabama greenhouse, located on the side of the Biology Building, has been run by the UA department of biological sciences to facilitate plant...
After years of self-motivated particle and astrophysical research with IceCube, a neutrino-detecting telescope sealed in the ice of Antartica, researchers recently con?rmed evidence of 28 events involving...
With The University of Alabama standing as one of the last SEC school without a smoking ban on campus, UA students are stepping up to voice their opinions on the matter. “The UA administration is evaluating...
When the Capstone Men and Women guide a group of students on a tour around The University of Alabama Thursday, the hopeful faces of potential students will be slightly younger than the typical high school...
As children in ghoul costumes hold their parents’ hands and University of Alabama students glance sidelong at the sites by Gorgas Library they thought they knew so well, Todd Hester, a naturalist for...
Laura Lineberry shocked one of her graphic design classes with a rare opportunity. Heath Fogg, a UA alumnus and lead guitarist for the three-time Grammy-nominated band Alabama Shakes, contacted Lineberry...
For the last four years, Margaret Johnson, associate professor in the department of biological sciences, has led undergraduate students at The University of Alabama in cell research on inositol, an essential...
For those who dread long walks from one class to another, Project Health offers its own chauffeur service that will give any student a free ride across campus and even the chance to win prizes. The “Swagon”...
Fresh seafood shipped from the Gulf is now being served at the second Steamers resteraunt in Tuscaloosa, located where Crimson Tavern used to be on the Strip. “Anyone can get a burger or pizza but...
The Student Producers Association is producing a TV show pilot compiled of films from the Black Warrior Review Film Festival to air on an Alabama public network in spring 2014. “This is not a class...
The University of Alabama Student Health Center caters to a wide range of students’ health and medical needs while promoting healthy lifestyle education in innovative ways. “We consider ourselves...
The Waffle House on the Strip will give out one free waffle and one free cup of coffee for anyone dressed in Alabama gear from 7 a.m. on Thursday to 7 a.m. Friday. “It’s going to get insane here,”...
The University of Alabama leads the country with the most installed LED stage lights for performances in the department of theatre and dance. After funding last spring, Alabama began retrofitting by replacing...
The University of Alabama leads the country with the most installed LED stage lights for performances in the department of theatre and dance. After funding last spring, Alabama began retrofitting by replacing...
Heart Touch program, created by international graduate student Fan Yang, allows fourth-graders in after-school programs in Tuscaloosa to learn Chinese culture through an overseas Chinese pen pal and various...
Heart Touch program, created by international graduate student Fan Yang, allows fourth-graders in after-school programs in Tuscaloosa to learn Chinese culture through an overseas Chinese pen pal and various...
Disability access on campus is the focus of Crimson Access Alliance, a new group on The University of Alabama campus with plans to foster a safe environment for those with needs for alternative access...
