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Find Your Passion: The Glass Shaper
Staff member Rick Smith, the facility manager for the Glass Blowing Facility at UA, creates custom glassware for use in research projects in a shop he designed himself.
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The holiday season can be hectic, from gift shopping and traveling to eating too much and spending too much money. UA experts hope to save you time, money and stress this year.
There’s easy access, and then there’s easy access. From remote monitoring of truckers’ vitals to mental health consultations via video, researchers extend care through technology.
Find Your Passion: Overcoming Odds, Obstacles of Divorce
Michelle Hawthorne is not your average UA student. One thing important to Hawthorne has also become her passion – the study of parental alienation syndrome or PAS.
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Find Your Passion: Leading By Example
For Phillips Thomas, service-learning projects are not just resume-fillers. For her, she says, they are about leading by example and impacting people’s lives in a hands-on, personal way.
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With the 2008 Presidential Election entering the home stretch, professors from The University of Alabama offer insights into the political process.
Find Your Passion: A Sports-Minded Entrepreneur
It may be hard to imagine most 19-year-olds as veterans of their chosen profession, but Matt Wilson is a vice president for production for HSTV Southeast.
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In keeping with The University of Alabama's legacy and tradition of academic integrity, events during the week of September 21-25 celebrate the value of academic integrity.
Find Your Passion: Total Immersion
Gustave Hahn-Powell entered UA looking for exotic topics. What he found was a strong interest in the language, music and philosophy of Japan, some 7,000 miles from Tuscaloosa.
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UA Ranked Among America's Best
The University of Alabama is again ranked among the top 50 public universities in the nation, ranking 37th according to U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings for 2008.
In this special back to school feature, UA experts discuss hot education-related topics and trends including bus safety, cyberbullying, social groups, testing trends, and more.
Find Your Passion: Southern Roots Inspire Student's Love of Language
Questions about language and culture formed the spark for Jamie Lee McReynolds to research, while an undergraduate, the way we speak and how it sounds.
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Rural Alabama Spot a Candidate Site for Observatory Network to Detect Climate Change Impacts
A remote spot within the Talladega National Forest could serve as one of 20 locations nationally that will detect the ecological impacts of climate change.
Find Your Passion: Caring for the Community
Josh Hamilton’s dedication to those less fortunate is inspiring, and he has extended the sense of caring he says he found at UA to regions far from the campus’ borders.
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Find Your Passion: Atypical Path to Patients Requires Patience
There were times, Lynnette Moats says, when quitting work to pursue a nursing degree seemed like a 4-year poverty sentence for her entire household, including her daughter and the two nieces she’s homeschooled throughout her college career.
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The University of Alabama tradition culminated for UA's Spring 2008 graduates when they received their diplomas Saturday, May 10 in Coleman Coliseum.
Find Your Passion: Combining Passions
Andrea Mabry was always catching her friends in the act. But her photo albums and scrapbooks aren’t filled with the usual “say cheese” pictures.
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Find Your Passion: A Learning Adventure
Two of Aldrich Callins’ passions are foreign travel and collecting information about the economies of foreign countries. Another passion is helping people.
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The focus of our students and alumni extends beyond academic achievement and research. There is an entrepreneurial spirit that wraps itself around all phases of the UA experience.
VIDEO: Spring Has Sprung at UA
Winter has broken in Tuscaloosa, and the spring season brings new life and excitement to the UA campus, and a flurry of outdoor activities for students and visitors.
Find Your Passion: Making Lives Bigger
Junior Allison Garstecki unearthed a key sandstone artifact, some 800 years old, during the final days of an archaeological expedition in which she and classmates participated.
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Oodles of Leaves Call UA Herbarium Home
The UA campus is home to millions of leaves, perhaps most prominent in the new growth emerging each spring from the majestic oaks and on the azaleas preparing to dazzle.
Find Your Passion: The Total Package
As a little girl growing up in Florence, S.C., Martha Addison knew she wanted to be an aerospace engineer. When the time came to choose a college, Addison wanted a school that offered her everything she deserved.
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Find Your Passion: A Fashionable Storyteller
Making actors comfortable on stage is a big part of senior Peyton Blankenship’s role as a costume designer in The University of Alabama’s theatre and dance department.
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Find Your Passion: Proactive and Positive
A 65-year-old research study, an HBO documentary, and his own research have helped solidify Phillip Jordan’s life-long passion to aid inner-city African-American children with issues such as self-esteem and expectations.
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USA Today All-USA College Team
In 2008, seven students from The University of Alabama were named to the USA Today All-USA College Academic Team, more than any other school in the nation.
African-American Heritage Month
UA is celebrating African-American Heritage Month in February with the theme “Creating History Every Day” to recognize the range and diversity of contributions of African-Americans.
Researchers are developing a new compact acoustic sensor that will enable users to accurately locate a sound source, utilizing UA’s new hemi-anechoic chamber.
We’ve all been through them, either on the receiving or giving end. They are second only to firing an employee as the task managers say they dislike the most. So, why do them?
UA’s Office of Media Relations offers predictions from faculty experts for the coming year about a wide range of topics ranging from politics to economics and more.
UA Hollings Scholars Lead the Way as the Best and Brightest
From analyzing the environmental damage of DDT to developing warning systems for evacuation zones, The University’s best and brightest are not only excelling in the classroom but also improving the society in which we live.
Song of Hope Springs from Enterprise Tragedy
The powerful feeling that music can provide is the impetus behind a new piece of music from UA to honor victims of the devastating tornado that slammed through Enterprise on March 1.
Crimson Pride Makes a Difference
The support, energy, enthusiasm and class shown by Alabama fans means a lot to every player and coach who has ever been a part of the Crimson Tide.
White Gold: Archaeologists Explore Salt’s Well Preserved Impact on Earlier Societies
If you were living 1,000 years ago, among your primary concerns would have been obtaining salt. Yep, sodium chloride… good ol’ table salt.
Scientists Focus on Blind Crayfish in Search for Cave Ecology Answers
A state wildlife grant is providing UA researchers funding to search for cave crayfish – eyeless, small, white, almost transparent animals – within 10 Alabama caves.
The University of Alabama has always set the standard with its legacy and tradition of academic integrity. In keeping with that tradition, the University offers a week of events that celebrates the value that campus administrators, faculty and students have placed on maintaining academic integrity. All are encouraged to participate in the week’s events.
A new football season brings changes in parking, tailgating and transportation in and around the UA campus.
iTour Bama: The Next Generation of Tour Guide
Thanks to two talented and enterprising UA students, prospective students now have a new way of touring the UA campus: the iPod.
A new academic year brings many new and exciting opportunities to campus. Here are a few of the new additions to your UA experience.
Crimson Ride, UA’s new transit system, gets you where you want to go on campus. It’s free, fast and makes our campus more pedestrian friendly.
Everyone has a story. Sometimes you have to dig a bit in order to tell it – especially when it’s covered by the absence of freedom and beneath the layers of time.
UA Study Reveals That Child Abuse and Neglect Cost Alabama $521 Million A Year
Child abuse costs Alabamians more than $520 million each year, according to the report prepared by UA’s College of Human Environmental Sciences and the Center for Business and Economic Research.
Excavation Reveals Items from UA’s Early History
What began as a three-week excavation in the parking lot behind Gorgas Library, may become much more.
UA Engineers Without Borders Repair Residents’ Plumbing; Restore Baseball Field
Engineers Without Borders has partnered with HERO Housing Resource Center, an organization aimed at reducing substandard housing conditions in Hale County, to improve residential plumbing in the area.
UA Physicists Play Key Role in Resolving Long-Standing Neutrino Question
One of the world’s most closely monitored experiments recently yielded its initial findings. The results were made possible, in part, by three UA scientists who developed one of the primary sets of code used in key portions of the internationally-known effort’s computer analysis.
Alumni Association Photo Exhibit Offers ‘Perspectives’ of UA Artists
An exhibit by student Rachael Crawley showcases unconventional portraits of UA student, faculty and staff artists in a range of fields.
UA Concert to Feature Original Composition by Hip-Hop Violinist
The University will premiere a composition by nationally-acclaimed hip-hop violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain at an innovative concert on April 10. The original piece commemorates the heroism of the desegregation of the University through such important figures as Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood.
New Transit System Expected to Help Ease University’s Rapid Growth
The University’s parking and transportation department is about four months from seeing one of its biggest projects to date becoming a reality.
Research Provides Insight into Suspected Parkinson’s Trigger
A new exhibit at UA’s Alabama Museum of Natural History will give visitors a hands-on look at crime scene analysis and forensic investigations, minus the backlighting and Hollywood glitz.
UA Museum's 'CSI Alabama' to Display Science Behind TV Dramas
Researchers at UA are offering clues as to why some people appear to have a higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease following exposure to a widely used chemical weed killer.
From B-boying to Fuel Cells, Gaming to Cancer Medication, UA Undergraduates Further the Institution’s Mission Through Groundbreaking Research
The University recently relaunched its Crimson Calendar at http://events.ua.edu. The completely-redesigned Crimson Calendar offers the ability to unite events from the entire UA community into a centralized campus-wide events calendar.