Commencement Commencement ceremonies to begin Friday: NBC (Huntsville) – July 26 May graduates will finally receive their diplomas from The University of Alabama this Friday. There are 3 commencement events planned for the upcoming weekend. Masks are required for everyone attending graduation. WVUA – July 27 WVTM 13 AL.com CBS (Huntsville) ABC 33/40 NBC 13 […]
Category: News
Articles about news in the College, from student and faculty accomplishments to research advances, new academic programs, and the impact of giving.
Art Professors Win UA’s First Kress Grant for Digital Art History
University of Alabama art history faculty members Dr. Tanja Jones and Dr. Doris Sung were awarded the Capstone’s first Digital Art History Grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The professors received the two-year grant award to fund their project, “Global Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts,” a digital database that will serve as a tool for art […]
A&S in the News: July 19-25, 2020
Alabama’s Biodiversity New research center showcases Alabama’s diversity: Bham Now – July 22 It seems like we have a hard time appreciating how rich Alabama really is, and how important it is to the rest of the country. But the research going on at the Paint Rock Forest Research Center in northeast Alabama could change […]
Giving Back
The Edward Ervin Guy Jr. Endowed Scholarship in Communicative Disorders, established in 2014, aims to give back to the students working to help those with language, speech, and hearing disorders. The scholarship allowed Summer Ensor, a 2019 recipient and communicative disorders major, to take classes over the summer and participate in the Undergraduate Clinic at […]
UA Researcher Studying Link Between Pollutants and Hermaphroditic Fish
Pollution and chemical imbalances in water could have an adverse effect on animal behavior, particularly in fish that make their home among the mangrove trees along the Florida coast. Dr. Ryan Earley and his students are charting multiple courses to determine what causes changes in how the fish function. “Our research program has a bunch […]
UA Professor Receives Grant from State Council on the Arts
From the July 2020 Desktop News | Grace Bumbry and Shirley Verrett are amongst the most impactful African American female voices in opera, both rising to esteem in the mid to late twentieth century. The two sopranos famously joined forces in 1982 to perform a recital to honor Marian Anderson, the first African American to […]
UA Establishes Center for Innovative Autism Research
CIRA, which was formally created in April, strives to change the way medical professionals identify and treat individuals with autism through interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research. […]
UA Professor Creates Interactive Map of Confederate Monument Removals
Dr. Hilary Green, associate professor in the department of gender and race studies, created an interactive map documenting dozens of removals spanning back to 1891. […]
Modeling the Past for Predicting Future COVID-19
Researchers from The University of Alabama, along with international partners, applied a mathematical tool used to model geochemical processes to infections of COVID-19, finding the model can assist in understanding the coronavirus pandemic and evaluating the impact of different mitigation strategies on disease infection. The team led by Dr. Yong Zhang, associate professor of geological […]
A&S in the News: July 12-18, 2020
Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for flooding in China and removal of Confederate monuments. […]
