When Alan Blinder, a 2011 UA graduate now working at the Atlanta bureau of The New York Times, first met Jennifer Greer, then chair of the journalism department, he was a pre-med student.“I’m supposed...
Biologists have long watched and studied sharks and butterflies, but the secrets locked within their scales and wings have begun to attract researchers like Amy Lang, associate professor of aerospace engineering...
Livability, student-to-resident ratio, cultural offerings, school presence and large employers can help define a college town’s success. Best College Reviews, which compiled a list of “The 50 Best...
Uranium, a key player in the growing world of nuclear energy, is projected to be in short supply and high demand in 2017 and beyond. But if 525 Solutions, a UA-based startup, has anything to do with it,...
A Fairy Tale Mock Trial on June 14 resulted in a hung jury for the Big Bad Wolf. Hosted by Children of the Village Network, Inc., the Sumter County Children's Policy Council and Girl Scouts of North-Central...
There aren’t many places where researchers can find an IMAGO Local Electrode Atom Probe. At the University, however, researchers from across the country come to the Southeast just to use it. The LEAP,...
Donors at the Tuscaloosa Morning Rotary Club’s Red Cross blood drive will have an opportunity to see more blood – and needles – up close. “I’ve been telling people they’re going to want to...
The Hot Hundred bike ride, with its Tuscaloosa roots and university connections, will return to campus Saturday with discounted tickets available to students.“Really anyone can come out to experience...
Rogers recognized as highly citedRobin Rogers, Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry, was one of over 3,000 researchers named in the Highly Cited Researchers 2014 list released by Thomson Reuters. The list...
A full-day workshop on submitting proposals for Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer grants will begin at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 15. The workshop, held by the...
Justin Ross Harris, a Tuscaloosa native, UA alumnus and former UA employee, is facing murder and child cruelty charges after the death of Cooper Harris, his 22-month-old son. The infant was left in Harris’...
Vincent Scalfani, the Science and Engineering librarian, is used to answering questions. But before his interview, he has one of his own.“Do you want me to fix your Wi-Fi?”A few minutes later, he has...
Parker Griffith, Democratic candidate for governor of Alabama, has a plea for voting-age students: Don’t take America for granted. “Your age group, your students are growing up in one of the most polarized,...
Matt Leddo, a senior majoring in telecommunication and film and an actor in Campus MovieFest Best Picture winner “Wieder ‘Zam’,” has a message from Campus MovieFest. “When we were out in Hollywood...
When a group of Florida International University students decided to take their successful tutoring business to the next level, they had to figure out how to preserve their key to success: relevance. “We...
Last summer, students driving along McFarland Boulevard encountered the sights and sounds of construction as The Lofts at City Center prepared to welcome incoming residents. Brittney Hollis, vice president...
Students seeking employment in the state of Alabama can count on getting paid at least $7.25 an hour. An executive order signed by the president and implemented in mid-June seeks to raise the federal minimum...
News On Campus: Briefs for Wednesday, June 18, 2014 College Bound Pre-Collegiate Program hosts graduation lunch Twenty-seven high school students in the College Bound Pre-Collegiate Program will...
Teachers ask students to say a lot of things, but the ASM Materials Camp teaches teachers how to get their students to express wonder. “The philosophy of the camps is to give students a ‘Wow!’...
The appointment of a new dean often involves bringing in someone new to the college, someone that Jennifer Greer, interim dean of the College of Communication and Information Sciences, says can ?“shake...
Lisa McKinney, head of the Culverhouse Majors Awareness Program, worked with admissions counselors and visited 30 high schools earlier this year to seek out talented minority students. Those students...
By Samuel Yang | News EditorThree years later, businesses are still returning to Tuscaloosa.April 26, 2011, was the last Tuesday that you could drive down the heart of Tuscaloosa and see Alabama Physical...
There are two kinds of people in two different worlds facing two different problems. On the one hand are students looking to make a social impact but can’t find the right kind of work. On the other hand...
Brandon Hill has always been interested in diseases. The Mississippi native headed to Jackson State University to study the effect of certain leaf extracts on cancer cells and, after completing a bachelor's...
William Bomar spent 16 years as the director of Moundville Archaeological Park, which he calls one of the nation’s most significant ?archaeological sites. But Bomar, recently named as The University...
Finals season lasts two weeks, football season three months – and farmer’s market season for Homegrown Alabama lasts six months. And like studying for finals or tailgating, it often comes with competitions,...
The University of Alabama is known for throwing its weight around on the football field, in the business world and in legal circles. But according to “A Study of Social Media in Higher Education,”...
Su Gupta, associate professor of metallurgical and materials engineering, directs a campus-wide user facility called the UA Micro-Fabrication Facility. If you look for it today, you can find it in the...
A story of heroin trafficking that has seen the death of two Tuscaloosa men, including a University of Alabama student and a law enforcement sweep of North Alabama, is reaching its final chapter with the...
Chip Cooper, artist-in-residence at the Honors College, has published a photography book about Cuba. But the same things that drew him to the guarded island nation – the mystery, for one – have also...
There are still places you can go to see the destruction of the tornado that tore through the heart of Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011. But as the three-year anniversary of the tornado approaches, it has...
Whether it’s Dining Dollars or student loans, money and college are never far apart, but graduation can often open a new financial door for students. When students graduate, they are often faced with...
Senator Richard Shelby and his wife Annette Shelby’s names have been on Shelby Hall since 2004. This year, they lent their faces to a commemorative pillar guarding the sidewalk en route to their namesake...
Alabama football stars have converged on the Annual Chris Rogers’ Paintball Tournament for two years, but this year’s events will also include A-Day Giveback, an event on Friday featuring Carolina...
When Diane Salls, president of the Ceres Garden Club of Northport, moved to Tuscaloosa more than 50 years ago, she would pass the Greensboro Avenue train depot and think to herself that a town of Tuscaloosa’s...
When a resident of Greensboro, Ala., told Pam Dorr, executive director of Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization, that there was too much bamboo in her area, it was a complaint. And it would...
A portion of the Quad will turn blue and pink Friday when more than 3500 flags blanket the area around Denny Chimes. The flags are part of Bama Students for Life’s annual Cemetery of the Innocents. ...
When Nicholas Caruso, a graduate student in the biological science department, dissects a salamander, he cannot find its lungs. That is disconcerting, but it’s actually not terribly surprising – they...
A drop of water hoping to end up in the city of Tuscaloosa’s drinking water is first born – or reborn – in a cloud. There, it condenses and precipitates, falling as a droplet to the earth. If it...
Human trafficking and sexual slavery have long been pressing issues in the international community, and a Birmingham shelter ministry will be joining with campus groups Monday to raise student awareness....
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, a publication based out of the School of Law, will host...
It might be surprising to some that the Ferguson Center Movie Series, International Expressions, Hot Topics discussion series, Discovery Series classes and On the Town with the Ferg come from the same...
On a college campus dotted with dining halls and bookended by commercial corridors crammed with restaurants, it can be easy to forget that food insecurity and food deserts, areas where people cannot easily...
The University of Alabama campus is no stranger to ongoing construction and development. But for the University, development is about more than just expanding the edges of campus. As elements of campus...
Between classes, tests, social events and personal hobbies, students’ calendars quickly fill up as the school year draws on. And as calenders become overloaded, so do students’ abilities to remember...
The College of Community Health Sciences’ three-year family medicine residency program has selected three 2014-15 chief residents. Leslie Zganjar, director of communications for CCHS, said the program...
UA faculty, staff members and students who are the parents of a child between the ages of 2 months and 5 years have various options for child care services in Tuscaloosa. While some might use the child...
When snow started falling in the middle of February, traffic and classes ground to a halt. Cars and courses started again, but with midterms around the corner, professors are finding their own ways to...
The landscape of downtown Tuscaloosa is changing. Over the next few years, students and citizens can expect the arrival of a new apartment complex, an Embassy Suites Hotel and a Hilton Home 2 Suites extended-stay...
As the state capital, Montgomery is Alabama’s hub of politicians and lobbyists, but on Thursday, it will experience a rush of public university students as part of Higher Education Day. Sean Ross, SGA...
It’s an unexpected coda to one of America’s most iconic institutions. The jury of 12 strangers, summoned by the state, emerges into the spotlight and tensely delivers the sentence before dissolving...
Students in local schools are familiar with test preparation and critical thinking, but as of this year they may also be familiar with a University of Alabama graduate student who regularly comes into...
Linda Ford knows all the dogs in her neighborhood. She lives with her husband, University of Alabama clinical lecturer David Ford, in a historic house on 7th Street. Her neighborhood is, at times, home...
When Tim Steere, a community journalism graduate student, was an undergraduate student in history at West Virginia University, he often started his research by looking at newspapers. During his history...
It happens all the time – a student swipes their ACT card and walks away with their new purchase. The process seems instantaneous, secure and foolproof. Most of the time, there’s no reason to doubt...
Hard-working, driven, team players – phrases like these are often used to describe ideal applicants and employees, and they are qualities that Kelly Fodel, editor of Military Advanced Education magazine,...
For some degree programs at The University of Alabama, completion of a degree indicates a student has spent time working in their field of study, not just studying and taking classes about their field....
Mountain views and coastlines draw visitors to the other 49 states, but what does Alabama have to offer? David Pope, director of the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Georgia and Alabama offices,...
This year, a familiar virus has shown up in the labs of the Alabama Department of Public Health. Sherri Davidson, an epidemiologist for ADPH, monitors the spread of influenza virus in Alabama by taking...
Kyes Stevens is an Alabama native and an Auburn graduate, so she knows what she’s talking about when she says the relationship between The University of Alabama and her alma mater can be polarizing....
The logo for moving company Two Men and a Truck features two stick figures sitting in a truck, but three men from The University of Alabama have taken their opportunities with the company to the next level....
Students walk and talk across the Quad every day, but if they want to stop walking to host an event, The University of Alabama requires a grounds use permit. The fact that a large public university requires...
A team of University of Alabama graduate students took home top honors at the 2013 SAS Analytics and Data Mining Shootout, which tests students in their ability to wrangle and tame what Michael Adams,...
The holidays are a time for family, gifts and celebration, but car accidents can be a side effect in the days just before Christmas, according to a recent UA study. “There will be many people whose...
When Regina Harrell, physician and assistant professor in the College of Community Health Sciences, enters the scene of a house call, the first thing she does is pick out a spot to kneel on the floor,...
In the moments right after Sheila Washington, founder and director of the Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center, found out that her quest to pardon the last three Scottsboro Boys was successful,...
The University of Alabama is set to meet its goal of annually reducing energy usage by two percent per gross square footage of building space, despite pressure from facility and population growth. Greg...
Fifty years ago, a group of researchers at The University of Alabama conducted a study on race relations in the wake of the desegregation movement that made the doorway of Foster Auditorium a national...
The EF-4 tornado that tore through Tuscaloosa April 27, 2011, cost the city an estimated $2.2 billion. In response to the destruction caused that day, Tuscaloosa has been awarded $43.9 million in grants...
Behind every displayed T. Rex fossil, Spanish fort and Apollo capsule, there is a team of museum professionals. For six years, William Bomar, interim executive director of University Museums, has taught...
The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration is set to expand after Gov. Robert Bentley signed an executive order creating the Alabama Center for Insurance...
Past generations have ridden, driven and flown into the future – but according to Jeff Speck, a city planner and architectural designer, cities that want to matter in 30 years need to focus on walking....
Students interested in locally sourced food or in eating at Epiphany Café in historic downtown Tuscaloosa will get a taste of the area as well as some live music on Thursday, Oct. 24th. Olivia Bensinger,...
Students willing to spend a month seriously considering the environmental consciousness of their daily lives are being rewarded both tangibly and intangibly through Project Green Challenge. Sponsored...
In the early stretches of the quiet summer in a small lot cleared by a tornado, a modest brick coffeehouse opened its doors to the residents of the Forest Lake neighborhood. A grand opening on June...
Joey Gamble, a senior majoring in English, estimates that he has written somewhere around 30 papers for his major. That’s not counting his Honors thesis, a 35-page work he wrote last year about post-9/11...
Shepherd Bend Mine, the surface coal mine that would be situated near a Birmingham Water Works facility, does not technically exist yet. None of its land has been leased, but part of it has been permitted....
This summer, one of Preston Jutte’s best friends died by suicide. Next Sunday, Jutte will join hundreds of others in an awareness walk that seeks to prevent others from suffering the same fate as Jutte’s...
So far this year, The University of Alabama has been ranked as #86 in National Universities, according to the US News & World Report; #1 in all applicable college football polls listed on ESPN; and, more...
It was her fourth time on a plane and her first time leaving the country. After a whirlwind first semester, Caitlyn McMahan – now a sophomore majoring in religious studies and Spanish – was preparing...
In a world where food is measured in calories, it can be easy to forget there are other ways to measure the quality of a meal. The University of Alabama Environmental Council, or ECo, is partnering with...
Many University of Alabama students knew Jan Tillery-Bailey, who passed away Sept. 1 in a Birmingham hospital after an extended illness, as the wife of former UA President Guy Bailey. For others, Tillery-Bailey...
Taking into consideration class times, student numbers and historical capacities, parking at The University of Alabama has become a fine science monitored by UA Parking Services. Chris D’Esposito,...
Move-in ended a while ago for most students, but for a handful of others, the process feels like yesterday. Alicia Browne, director of Housing Administration, said more than 100 girls started the year...
Mark Johnson, a graduate student at The University of Alabama, will research and produce a 25- to 30-page paper on barbecue in Alabama. Johnson is a cultural historian with interests and experience in...
The effects of a national movement surrounding gun control have trickled down to The University of Alabama’s bylaws in the form of a revised gun policy reinforcing a campus-wide ban on guns. The University’s...
Students at The University of Alabama are busy adjusting to a new fall semester, but executives in the Student Government Association have been preparing throughout the summer for the upcoming year. Hamilton...
University of Alabama students new to campus might be intimidated by the travelling coded dots on TransLoc’s transit system app, but the restless icons could just be a student’s best chance when it...
Donnelly Walton, The University of Alabama’s interim archivist and curator of southern history and culture collections, arrived at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, June 16 to attend the Archives Leadership...
Three members of The University of Alabama’s faculty won awards for their work at the Southeast Region Emmy Awards. At the June 8 ceremony, Ben Goertz, a telecommunication and film adjunct instructor,...
History has a habit of colliding with the doors of Foster Auditorium, but Tuesday it passed easily through the doors and into the auditorium. Brenda Marshall remembers the determination of her brother,...
Walking to school may seem like a thing of the past for the modern college student, but for students in the Forest Lake area, it will be a part of the future. As many campuses find ways to make campus,...
Students who don’t want to wait until football season to see an Alabama-Auburn matchup can catch an airborne take on the Iron Bowl Saturday. The University Hoverbowl Challenge will feature hovercraft...
At NASA’s University Student Launch Initiative competition, The University of Alabama’s Rocket Girls have eaten dinner under a rocket, heard an astronaut speak, won awards and sent a rocket of their...
When it comes to The University of Alabama’s push to preserve the traditional four-year college completion, DegreeWorks is just one tool in its arsenal. “I think we’ve already tried, as far as...
When the state of Alabama executes someone, the cause of death is listed as homicide. “The perpetrator of that murder is us, the people,” Andrew Grace, a telecommunication and film professor, said....
In the corner of a dusty workshop at Hardaway Hall is a child’s dream come true. “This is probably going to be some kid’s dollhouse eventually,” Josh Morrison says about the brick castle front,...
Hisham Ali is coming off a long night at the Structures Lab in Hardaway Hall. Living amid a collection of wooden models, live wires and Domino’s pizza boxes, Ali, a senior majoring in aerospace engineering,...
Kayla Sinclair came to campus at 5:30 in the morning to get in line and found 300 people ahead of her. “I didn’t get to sign up until 9:30 or 10, and I was only able to sign up for one,” she said....
Students planning to take the GRE, LSAT or MCAT can get a preview of the exams on Saturday, Feb.16, at 9 a.m. Practice exams, offered by SGA and Kaplan Test Prep, are available to all students and will...
