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Pulitzer winner Rick Bragg to speak at fundraising event

Jessica Smith March 6, 2013

Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Bragg will be speaking at an Alpine Living Magazine fundraiser March 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Gorgas Library Room 205. Alpine Living is an award-winning international travel magazine...

Many graduates look abroad for experience

Kyle Dennan March 6, 2013

While most graduating college students frantically search for entry-level jobs, some University of Alabama students plan alternative post-graduation experiences around the globe. Emma Fick, a senior majoring...

Study says 60 percent of internships end in job offers

Ashley Tripp March 5, 2013

According to College Plus, a recent nationwide survey shows 80 percent of 2009 graduates who applied for jobs reported they were unable to find a job before graduation. However, according to Forbes magazine,...

Speaking multiple languages becoming more important with time

Kyle Dennan March 5, 2013

It is vital to learn a language other than English, Koji Arizumi, director of The University of Alabama Critical Languages Center, said, and Americans are beginning to realize it. “Twenty years ago,...

‘Worm shack’ research, hovercraft leading field

Samuel Yang March 5, 2013

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,...

MS Walk raises money for research and treatment

Sarah Robinson March 5, 2013

In a change of pace from last Sunday’s inaugural half marathon, Tuscaloosa will host its fourth annual Walk MS event Saturday, and hundreds of people will walk one to three miles to raise funds to study...

Family members of Stand in the School House Door players reflect on, memorialize upcoming 50th anniversary

Melissa Brown March 4, 2013

Though Vivian Malone and James Hood walked through the doors of Foster Auditorium nearly 50 years ago in the national spotlight, the glare of The University of Alabama community was all that accompanied...

Engineering, nursing among gender-dominated majors

Sarah Elizabeth Tooker March 4, 2013

Some majors and colleges at The University of Alabama see large gender disparity, despite trends to create more gender diversity. Beginning as early as 1989, women have held a slight majority to men...

Sites like Netflix often lead to binge watching of TV programs

Tori Linville March 4, 2013

After they finish classes for the day, many students drop their backpacks, kick off their shoes, sit back and watch episode after episode of their favorite television show for the next several hours...

Ferg Post Office to undergo new management in July

Ashanka Kumari March 4, 2013

Beginning July 1, the Ferguson Center Post Office will be managed by the UA Campus Mail department, Tony Johnson, executive director of logistics and support services, said. The current post office...

Students right illiteracy, social immobility through campus initiatives in region

Kyle Dennan February 28, 2013

There are counties in the Black Belt region of Alabama where as much as 30 percent of their population lacks basic prose literacy skills, according to a report released in 2009 by the National Center for...

Four arrested players off of team, campus

Marquavius Burnett February 28, 2013

The four University of Alabama football players who were suspended for charges ranging from second degree robbery to fraudulent use of a credit card – Eddie Williams, Brent Calloway, D.J. Pettway and...