Applications opened Monday, Jan. 21 to students looking to join the 14 different honor societies associated with the Coordinating Council of Honor Societies at The University of Alabama. “The Coordinating Council of Honor Societies helps to organize the selections and service activities of campuswide honorary organizations and assists in planning the Tapping on the Mound festivities,” A.J. Collins, president of [...]

UA System Chancellor Robert Witt has named a 23-member advisory committee to assist with the search for UA’s next president. The committee includes six members of the UA System Board of Trustees, nine UA administrators, five business leaders and alumni, two professors, and one student.

Each year, thousands of people of all ages are diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening diseases, and for many of these patients a life-saving marrow transplant from a matching donor is their best hope for a cure, according to a Be The Match foundation information sheet. Martin Townsend, a 20-year-old biology major at the University, was diagnosed with a [...]

Almost from the start, there has been a relationship between the University of Alabama and Bryce Hospital, said Alabama Department of Mental Health Historian Steve Davis. “The bricks that built Manly Hall and Clark Hall were made at Bryce,” Davis said. “UA bought all its coal from Bryce.” And now, the University has bought Bryce Hospital. University Planner and Designer [...]

University of Alabama student John Canada was recently chosen as one of five students nationwide to attend the United Nation Climate Change Convention in Durban, South Africa. “I feel very honored that I was given the opportunity to represent [the American Chemical Society], the University and my country at a United Nations Conference,” said Canada, a chemistry major and member [...]