More than 23,000 students — or 61% of students — have voluntarily reported at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccination to The University of Alabama. To verify the cards, UA medical staff randomly inspect...

In its third update of the spring semester, the UA System COVID-19 Dashboard reported a decrease of over 100 in positive test results after two weeks of steady numbers. Since Jan. 29, 167 positive test...

The UA System reported 244 positive COVID-19 test results among UA students in its second weekly dashboard update of the semester, bringing the total number of reported student cases to about 450 since...

More than 200 UA students tested positive for COVID-19 after the first week of classes of the spring semester. No sentinel testing numbers were published in Friday’s COVID-19 dashboard update from the...

Though entry testing was required for significantly fewer students this semester, there's always a chance that you'll need to be tested for COVID-19 later in the semester. Whether it's for personal reasons...

The spring semester will begin with  a two-week moratorium on in-person activities in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.   Pope confirmed that restrictions will be similar to last semester’s...

Protesters marched around the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse on Saturday as they demanded Sheriff Ron Abernathy release COVID-19 data for the county jail. “Release the data, release the people, release...

The University plans to expand its sentinel testing program in the spring semester in partnership with University Medical Center. Sentinel Testing: What Is It?  Sentinel testing is a random sampling...

Despite rising cases of COVID-19 in Tuscaloosa that threaten older and younger residents alike, Mayor Walt Maddox is still hesitant to force another shutdown that could potentially harm small businesses...

In its final weekly update of the fall semester, the UA System COVID-19 Dashboard reported 142 positive test results among UA students, faculty and staff.  This update coincided with the last day of...

The University has reported a significant drop in COVID-19 cases in the past seven weeks, which plummeted by more than 700 since late August. But while recent reported cases have remained relatively low,...

The UA System COVID-19 dashboard showed the first rise in cases in five weeks on Friday. Cases nearly doubled among students from last week’s 24 reported cases to 45 reported cases, bringing the total...

In September, the College of Community Health Sciences began its ninth annual campus-wide effort to vaccinate students, faculty and staff against the flu. The quadrivalent flu vaccine, which protects against...

In what officials call a ‘sharp decrease,’ the University of Alabama experienced its third-straight week of a downward trend in COVID-19 cases. But it’s unclear just how many students and faculty...

More than a week after Labor Day weekend, the UA System COVID-19 Dashboard reported a steep decline in cases. But while officials boast low numbers, sentinel testing is slow-going. In a Sept. 16 press...

The University of Alabama’s enrollment has decreased 0.68% over the past year. This comes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced the University to adopt a hybrid model of learning and institute...

Since the move to online instruction in the spring semester, The University of Alabama has shown lapses in its ability to make moral choices that keep its student body safe. This failure of leadership...

After spending his life fighting for the rights of African Americans and spreading the word of the gospel, Reverend Thomas Linton died May 14, 2020, at the age of 88. During a time in Tuscaloosa when...

Hundreds of people gathered in the sweltering heat and humidity at the federal court building in downtown Tuscaloosa on Sunday. With fists raised and masks over mouths, the crowd peacefully protested the...

Isolation affects people differently. But without specific safeguards, stay-at-home mandates can spell danger for victims of household abuse. “Just because we are physically not seeing people doesn’t...

For the first 27 years of Ken Ozello’s 30-year career as a UA band director, uniforms and instruments for the Million Dollar Band (MDB) were usually stored in a band trailer or the back of members’...

In my three years at The University of Alabama, only one of my professors has offered mental health as an excuse to miss class without a doctor’s excuse. This represents a problem for students that suffer...

Lounging around a leather couch in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house, Demarcus Joiner and his campaign team let loose. They were prematurely celebrating what would be an unsurprising win.  This...

In my time at the University, various classes have required me to pay outrageous amounts of money for textbooks with no guarantee that they would be used. In a majority of these classes, these textbooks...