Cassandra Simon will give the seventh annual Last Lecture presentation Monday at 6 p.m. in 159 Russell Hall. The Last Lecture is a lecture series started by the UA Graduate School in 2007 to provide an opportunity for students to nominate and select a University of Alabama faculty member to give a final lecture as the school year winds to [...]

Tuesday at the Profiles in Service and Leadership Banquet, representatives from the Greek Week planning committee will present grants totaling $100,000 to 30 nonprofit organizations from the Tuscaloosa area and west Alabama at 6:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Ballroom. The money for the grants was raised during the activities of Greek Week, a week of competitions and events between [...]

In the days and months following the storms and tornadoes that ripped through Tuscaloosa and much of Alabama on April 27, 2011, UA professors, administrators and students took part, not only in rescues and clean up work, but also in research projects in various fields concerning tornadoes. While some departments studied the aftermath of such a case of extreme weather [...]

The newly elected and appointed executive officers of the Student Government Association held their first executive meeting Monday night in their conference room in the Ferguson Center. The meeting began with new SGA President Jimmy Taylor bringing the meeting to order and giving the officers a basic idea of how future executive meetings will progress. Then the new group of [...]

Debra Nelson-Gardell, an associate professor in the School of Social Work, has been selected as the faculty recipient of the Morris L. Mayer Award, one of the premier awards given out by The University of Alabama. The award commemorates Morris Mayer, a longtime UA professor of marketing. The honor is designed to recognize a student and a faculty member who [...]