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UA research team wins Gates’ Grand Challenges grant

Katherine Martin June 17, 2010

A University of Alabama research team was awarded a $100,000 Grand Challenges Exploration grant that will allow the group to develop an improved method for detecting and tracking water contamination, according...

Map of UA Board of Trustees potential plans (Map)

Map of UA Board of Trustees potential plans (Map)

Jon Lunceford June 17, 2010

View UA Board of Trustees Proposed Projects in a larger map This map shows 8 projects that have been brought before the UA Board of Trustees for potential construction. Included are a new student activity...

Rec Center offers indoor exercise opportunities

Ethan Summers June 17, 2010

Rec Center offers indoor exercise opportunities By Ethan Summers Contributing Writer Want to stay fit but still beat the heat this summer? The University’s Student Recreation Center has a class...

Facebook: Making users an open book

Facebook: Making users an open book

Lucie Enns June 17, 2010

Facebook, a social networking website many UA students use, occasionally changes its privacy settings, erasing users’ personal privacy preferences. This can make information available that students...

Belfast experience gives UA student new perspective on Irish culture, politics

Belfast experience gives UA student new perspective on Irish culture, politics

Megan Wilson June 17, 2010

For the last five months whenever I met somebody, one of two things would occur: the new person would reference Forest Gump, or begin in a horrid version of “Sweet Home Alabama.” Now, after being...

UA Students named among nation's best by USA Today

UA Students named among nation’s best by USA Today

Ashley McDaniel June 16, 2010

The University of Alabama once again led the nation with the most students named in a single year to the USA Today’s All-USA College Academic Team with a record 10 University students on this year’s...

Senate focuses on student outreach

Charles Scarborough June 16, 2010

The Student Government Association Senate voted Thursday to create the Before Bama e-mail program to streamline students’ ability to get involved in student organizations that match their interests....

Outdoor Rec offers relief from slow summer with trip opportunities

Ethan Summers June 10, 2010

Multiple outdoor activities are available to help make a slow summer more exciting, said Lance Haynie, the Outdoor Recreation Center’s program coordinator. Facilitated through Outdoor Rec, a white water...

Alabama in France students adapt to French culture

Editor’s Note: “Where in the World” is a summer series giving UA students studying abroad an opportunity to write about their summer adventures in their own words. If you’re studying abroad in...

UA program provides aid to Hannah Homes

Ashley McDaniel June 10, 2010

After the spring semester, the University’s Give-N-Go program collected a record of 35,040 pounds of donated items for Hannah Homes across Tuscaloosa, Shelby and Jefferson counties, providing basic necessities...

New College course introduces students to electronic music

Charles Scarborough June 10, 2010

The University’s New College blended history, science and music in a course offered in the three-week Interim semester in May. The New College course, Handmade Sounds: Electronic Music in Theory and...

UA students raise $300K for African orphan charity

UA students raise $300K for African orphan charity

Adriene LaPorte June 10, 2010

Forget Me Not NOLA, a non-profit organization founded in 2009 by two University students and five of their friends, raised about $300,000 for a charity in Africa. Adele Humphreys, a junior majoring in...