With nearly 60% of UA’s student population coming from out of state, many new students every fall share the same fears of being in a new place where they know very few people, if any at all.
Despite...
The Department of History invited Ukrainian ethnomusicologist and composer Olga Zaitseva-Herz to campus last weekend to perform the premiere of “Composing the Peace,” her follow-up to the critically-acclaimed...
The Turkish Students Association and the Iranian Students Association celebrated Nowruz, the Persian New Year, on Monday.
Nowruz has its roots in Zoroastrianism and is celebrated by Iranian groups across...
The annual University of Alabama Languages Conference took place over the weekend, with this year’s theme being “Beyond Borders.”
“I think people have always debated about borders, and immigration...
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox announced at Tuesday’s city council meeting that the city of Tuscaloosa would recognize February as National Parent Leadership Month.
“Parent leadership is essential...
The University announced that two new majors, two minors and a graduate degree program are being rolled out starting this semester.
Students are now able to major in business statistics through the...
President Stuart Bell will deliver what is likely to be his final State of the School Address on Jan. 30 at the Student Center Theater.
The address will honor the accomplishments of the 113th SGA administration...
Mayor Walt Maddox announced at the Tuscaloosa City Council meeting Tuesday that the city would recognize Dec. 1, 2024 as “World AIDS Day.”
“World AIDS Day unites people worldwide in the fight...
Ukrainian faculty at the University has hosted informational tours in Gorgas Library throughout November teaching about the history of the Holodomor famine as the Russia-Ukraine war nears its third year....
A year after the Israel-Hamas war began, students on campus are still feeling the impact of the Oct. 7 attacks that started the war and the subsequent Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Student activists...
The Tuscaloosa City Council reviewed Phase 1 plans to develop a Sports Illustrated Resort in Tuscaloosa on Tuesday.
The plans had been previously approved by the Riverfront Advisory Committee on Sept....
UA student groups hosted remembrance events on and ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, where Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups crossed into Israel and killed around...
Jeb Rine, Contributing Writer
• September 22, 2024
The application for Homecoming Queen has opened up and closes at noon Sept. 29.
Two informational sessions for Homecoming Queen applicants will take place this week as well, with one on Wednesday,...
Jeb Rine, Contributing Writer
• September 15, 2024
The Hispanic-Latino Association is preparing festivities for Hispanic Heritage Month, which is from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. The aim is to help spread Latino culture and foster a Latino community on campus....
Walt Maddox declared September “Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month” at the city council meeting Monday.
Betsy Fetner, program director at the Laura Crandall Brown Foundation, a nonprofit organization...
The annual Bama Jam concert put on by University Programs’ Weeks of Welcome kicked off Thursday, opening with The Band U.S. and being headlined by lovelytheband. University Programs said that 3,715 people...
A UA student and other local artists will be featured at Kentuck Art Center’s event, Spinning Stories: Truths and Tales from Women Creatives on Thursday. The stories are focused on womanhood and the...
Tuscaloosa will host several events around the Fourth of July, including two concerts Friday, June 28, and a firework celebration July 4.
The Live At The Plaza concert festival will begin at the Mercedes-Benz...
