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UA missions group returns to Nicaragua

Mark Hammontree January 8, 2014

By Mark Hammontree | News Editor ^ Less than a week before Christmas, 22 University of Alabama students said goodbye to the small Nicaraguan village of Trapichito. For some students, it was the last...

UA grad to appear on hit TV shows

Adrienne Burch January 10, 2013

University of Alabama alumna, Sonequa Martin-Green, is seeing her dreams come true before her very eyes. Five years ago she spoke the line, “True I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle...

RISE leaders go to Russia for disabled music outreach

Morgan Taylor October 9, 2012

Educators from the University ’s RISE program and the UA School of Music visted the Prospectiva Center in St. Petersburg, Russia last week to work with children with disabilities. The group also worked...

Students suffer from nomophobia, cellphone addiction

Students suffer from nomophobia, cellphone addiction

CW Staff October 9, 2012

A new addiction is being added to the long list, right alongside drugs and alcohol – nomophobia, an addiction to cellphones. In 2008, British researchers coined the term nomophobia for the anxiety one...

Apple debuts long-awaited iPhone 5

Kris Mitchell September 13, 2012

Technology company Apple debuted its sixth iPhone model, the iPhone 5, on Wednesday. The newest model in the Cupertino, Calif., company’s cell phone line has a four-inch screen — the biggest yet for...

Former ambassador and foreign service officers discuss Cuba and CIA

Chandler Wright September 10, 2012

A former ambassador told students Monday their major would not be a deciding factor in pursuing a career in foreign service with the State Department at a colloquium on Cuba, the Central Intelligence Agency...

Increasing amount of jobs requiring bachelor’s degree

Mazie Bryant September 9, 2012

With student debt at an all-time high and no guarantee of post-graduate jobs, a recent study by Georgetown University found that a bachelor’s degree may be the only saving grace to help students weather...

Crowd gathers on Gallalee roof to view Venus cross the Sun

Crowd gathers on Gallalee roof to view Venus cross the Sun

Benjamin Smith June 5, 2012

Venus won’t move across the face of the Sun again for another 105 years, and on June 5, all astronomy professor William Keel wanted was for the typical Alabama late-afternoon cumulus clouds to clear....

Engineering conference held at UA

Adam Greene May 30, 2012

The 53rd biennial International Field Emissions Symposium, held in Tuscaloosa from May 20 to 25, hosted over 180 professionals from 12 countries in a conference detailing and discussing new strides being...

University students ‘Cover the Night’ for Kony 2012

Rich Robinson April 17, 2012

More than 100 million people have watched the Kony 2012 video on YouTube and Vimeo since it was posted on March 5. Invisible Children, the group behind the video, has urged its supporters to take to the...

Moon-bouncing used as fundraiser

Moon-bouncing used as fundraiser

Brett Saunders April 2, 2012

Eight Alabama students broke the Guinness Book of World Records longest continuous time moon-bouncing this weekend at the Tuscaloosa Air Show. By rotating in 15-minute intervals, the group jumped throughout...

Delta Gamma, TOMS to fight blindness

Melissa Brown December 8, 2011

Delta Gamma, whose philanthropic focus is sight, has partnered with TOMS in The Great Fight for Sight, a competition between DG chapters to sell eyewear to benefit visually impaired children across the...