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Designers stand at the end of the Fashion for Life Fall fashion show.

Heels click and cameras flash at UA fashion show

Josie Wahl, Staff Writer November 20, 2024

Seniors majoring in apparel and textiles showcased their designs Sunday night at the Bama Theatre during the Fashion for Life fall fashion show. The show featured 18 designers, which was twice the number...

Cloudy skies and cloudy minds: Seasonal depression

Cloudy skies and cloudy minds: Seasonal depression

Josie Wahl, Staff Writer November 17, 2024

As the clocks are set back an hour and it gets dark earlier, students may suffer from seasonal affective disorder, more commonly known as seasonal depression.  While scientists aren’t sure why this...

The benefits of art for mental health

The benefits of art for mental health

Josie Wahl, Staff Writer November 13, 2024

When it comes to visual art, there’s often more beyond the canvas. Art can be used to express one’s thoughts and feelings and be a way for others to relate. Andrea Maria Garay Aparicio, a junior...

Universities Against Cancer hosted a tabling event on Thursday.

Universities Against Cancer hosts tabling event ahead of light show for cancer awareness

Josie Wahl, Staff Writer October 27, 2024

Universities Against Cancer, an organization that honors and highlights those who have fought cancer, hosted a tabling event on Thursday for students to sign up for a light show on Monday. The organization...

Students gather at career fair for fashion students.

Career fair opens networking opportunities for fashion students

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer October 9, 2024

The University Career Center and the Department of Clothing, Textiles and Interior Design collaborated to host the third annual career fair for fashion students in need of internships on Tuesday.  The...

Reality versus TV: The nursing field

Reality versus TV: The nursing field

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer October 2, 2024

Popular medical field-based TV shows have influenced people to take an interest in nursing. However, these shows don’t always accurately portray the reality nurses deal with on a day-to-day basis.    Kate...

Picture of Gene Stallings at the premiere of the "Do Right: The Stallings Standard."

New documentary highlights and celebrates the legacy of Gene Stallings

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer September 28, 2024

Professors at The University of Alabama honored former Alabama football coach Gene Stallings in a new documentary highlighting his legacy. The Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa showed a screening of the documentary...

Riptide dance crew members practice at the Student Center.

The Riptide Dance Crew is making dance fun and open to all

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer September 22, 2024

The Riptide Dance Crew aims to provide a club that celebrates differences and gives students a space to express themselves through hip-hop dancing. After completing auditions at the beginning of the fall...

Reality versus TV: The criminal justice field

Reality versus TV: The criminal justice field

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer September 15, 2024

Criminal justice shows have led to an increase of young adults wanting to become detectives, attorneys, scientists, crime profilers and other positions in the field. But these professions are not what...

The NOAA's Science on a Sphere exhibit has been installed at locations around the world.

Saban Center gaining Science on a Sphere exhibit

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer September 3, 2024

A new exhibit in the Saban Center will visually teach children how the planet’s environmental and earth systems work. The exhibit, called “Science on a Sphere,” will be a projected hologram of...

UA researcher leads team of students through international research study

UA researcher leads team of students through international research study

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer April 17, 2024

A University of Alabama associate professor of geological sciences is part of a seven-year project dedicated to researching a glacier in Antarctica that has been receding for nearly a hundred years.   The...

Libby the dog helped promote the Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter at the event.

School of music hosts donation drive for Metro Animal Shelter

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer April 7, 2024

The School of Music on Saturday hosted “Bark to the Beat,” a fundraiser 5K run and donation drive for the Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter.   The goal was to get 500 people to sign up and reach...

The Tuscaloosa City Board of Education building.

New UA program aims to encourage students to become teachers

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer March 31, 2024

The University of Alabama College of Education is creating a pipeline for high schoolers wanting to go into the education field.  Teach in Bama is a partner program with Alabama school districts that...

Students gather at a WGRC tabling event

WGRC tables for pay equity awareness week

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer March 20, 2024

The Women and Gender Resource Center is educating students on pay equity issues in light of Women’s History Month and pay equity awareness week.  It held a tabling event outside the Student Center...

The Tuscaloosa Heart Walk held at the Government Plaza.

Heart Walk celebrates 100th anniversary

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer March 3, 2024

The American Heart Association hosted its 100th annual Heart Walk at Government Plaza on Saturday.  The walk was held from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and was sponsored by DCH Health System, Harrison Construction...

Courtesy of First Year Council

First Year Council seeking to add naloxone trainings in resident halls

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer February 29, 2024

The First Year Council recently passed an act that will allow naloxone kits to be placed within automated external defibrillator kits in residence halls.   The act is called Project Zero, and the...

Photo courtesy of the SGA

Q&A with uncontested VP for student affairs candidate Lucy Bonhaus

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer February 21, 2024

Lucy Bonhaus is a sophomore majoring in cyber security, a senator for the College of Engineering, and the head of the Student Affairs Committee  Q: What made you want to run for this position?   “I...

Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter is hosting a fundraiser to help support the animals at the shelter.

Metro Animal Shelter starts fundraiser for animals

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer February 14, 2024

The Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter is hosting a Valentine’s Day promotion this month to support its animals.   The fundraiser, called Love Letters, allows people to “adopt” an envelope and...

UA continues to build the new golf facility.

Several UA construction projects to be finished this year

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer January 10, 2024

Following the recent completion of Drummond Lyon Hall and a series of renovations to Alston Hall, The University of Alabama has multiple ongoing construction projects across campus that will take place...

The UA Safe Zone Resource Center located in the Student Center.

UA organizations observe Transgender Awareness Week

Josie Wahl and Ava Morthland November 15, 2023

During Transgender Awareness Week, observed during the week leading up to Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20, UA organizations are working to provide events and resources to transgender students....

Air Force ROTC to host Veterans Day run Friday

Air Force ROTC to host Veterans Day run Friday

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer November 8, 2023

The UA Air Force ROTC is hosting its annual 5-kilometer run Friday to celebrate Veterans Day.   The event is scheduled to start at the Bureau of Mines at 5:45 a.m. and conclude around 7 a.m.   This...

Student at the Arts and Sciences table at the Majors Fair in the Student Center Ballroom on Oct. 18.

Majors fair provides insight on majors for students

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer October 22, 2023

The Capstone Center for Student Success held its annual majors fair Wednesday.   According to Jonie Threatt, the director of advising for the Capstone Center, the event generally sees around 450 students....

Homecoming queen named, coaches speak at pep rally

Homecoming queen named, coaches speak at pep rally

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer October 14, 2023

The University of Alabama ends its Homecoming week with a pep rally and a bonfire on the student quad. Former football announcer Eli Gold and former football player George Teague were welcomed as speakers...

 A rendering of the new Sports Illustrated Resort slated to be built in Tuscaloosa.

New sports-related resort coming to Tuscaloosa

Abby McCreary and Josie Wahl October 11, 2023

Sports Illustrated and Travel + Leisure have joined forces to start a chain of sport-themed resorts in college towns and decided that Tuscaloosa will be their starting point.    News of the resort,...

The Lofts is reportedly one of the apartment complexes where residents have issued complaints.

Quality at student apartments not meeting ‘standards’

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer September 20, 2023

For Jaleel Washington, a May 2023 graduate of the University, seeing rats in the trash room down the hall from his apartment at The Lofts at City Center was normal.   Washington said that in June,...

 The drive-thru Starbucks located on University Boulevard is open for business.

UA adds a third Starbucks location on campus

Josie Wahl, Contributing Writer August 27, 2023

The University of Alabama opened a drive-thru Starbucks location Aug. 21 at 325 University Blvd. near Newk’s and Arby’s.   “The Starbucks was built there because it was a vacant University property...

A Division of Student life worker assists students moving into their new dorms at the start of the 2022-2023 semester.

UA student workers struggle to earn a living 

Josie Wahl and Natalie Marburger March 1, 2023

Editors Note (3/1/23): The print version of this article was inadvertently printed with inaccurate RA pay information pre-2020. The online version of this article was corrected prior to online publication....