Several UA residence halls have received an Energy Star rating for energy efficiency this year. Energy Star is a government-backed program that helps businesses and institutions achieve premium efficiency across the board. The Riverside and Lakeside residential communities are the first dormitory facilities in the state to receive this rating. Alicia Browne, associate director for [...]
Freshman Forum is hosting a charity drive for currently deployed troops this week as part of UA Operation Gratitude. The organization is collecting items for care packages that will be sent to soldiers overseas. Andres Mendieta, a freshman majoring in economics and co-chairman of the forum, said the group’s officers had been considering a project [...]
The Alabama Innovation and Mentoring of Entrepreneurs will host its first AIME Day Friday to exhibit its students’ and faculty members’ research and inventions. The event begins at 8 a.m. and continues until 4:30 p.m. in the AIME Building across from the Ferguson Center. Dan Daly, faculty director of AIME, said investors will be traveling [...]
Looking back over a year as the vice president of student affairs, Tyler Valeska said he is proud of what he has accomplished as an SGA vice president and has enjoyed serving the student body. Valeska, a junior majoring in political science, said one of his biggest achievements this year was revising the student football [...]
Several UA researchers have discovered that the drug ampicillin may be a breakthrough in helping patients with movement disorders such as dystonia. The research was performed in the lab of biology professors Guy and Kim Caldwell in collaboration with scientists at Harvard and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “There has not been a new [...]
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