Tag: University of Alabama

African-American

Dr. Pamela Payne-Foster Leads the Way in Community Connection

Dr. Pamela Payne-Foster Foster is a public health physician and professor of community medicine and population health at UA’s College of Community Health. She’s also an expert on HIV/AIDs in rural areas, and calls herself an “activist researcher, trying to research in ways that affect policies and attitudes.”

July 1, 2021

Opinion

The Jalen Hurts Template on How to Handle Career Storms

There are lessons from college sports that can be transferred to other areas of life, even to higher educational administrative apparatuses. Personnel moves on the football field can mirror personnel moves in departments or schools. People are put in different positions and called upon to execute different roles and assignments.

April 16, 2021

COVID-19

Most Alabama Four-Year Schools Go Test-Optional for 2021 Admissions Year

Most of Alabama’s four-year universities are not requiring college admissions test scores for the 2021 school year, many citing the difficulty students had in taking the test last spring, AL.com reported. The University of Alabama announced waiving standardized test score requirements last week, followed by the University of Alabama at Birmingham doing the same on […]

October 13, 2020

African-American

U of Alabama Renames Hall Named After a Doctor With Racist Beliefs

The University of Alabama is renaming a hall named after Dr. Josiah C. Nott, a physician and scientist who held racist beliefs, reported abc3340. Nott Hall, where the university’s Honors College is situated, will now be called Honors Hall. Mackenzi Dugan, who some months ago initiated a petition to rename campus buildings with a racist […]

August 6, 2020

African-American

U of Alabama to Take Down Three Confederate Memorial Plaques

As the nation continues to ask itself tough and vital questions on racism following the death of George Floyd, the University of Alabama on Monday announced it is removing three Confederate memorial plaques from the college campus. The decision came a day after the Student Government Association at the university said it is talking with […]

June 9, 2020

LGBTQ+

Report: Diminishing Financial Aid for Low-Income Students

A new report says that as universities chase high rankings and future donors, financial aid money is all too often allocated to students who don’t really need it.

February 16, 2020

News Roundup

Alabama Dean of Students Resigns After Far-Right Organization Criticizes Tweets

Dr. Jamie Riley, assistant vice president and dean of students at the University of Alabama, resigned last week after his tweets condemning systematic racism and police were criticized by far-right website Breitbart News. Riley’s tweets from over two years ago were featured in Breitbart’s article which discussed Black academic’s observations about racism in the United […]

September 9, 2019

News Roundup

University of Alabama to Begin the State’s First Educational Neuroscience Program

The University of Alabama (UA) has announced undergraduates can begin applying to the state’s first educational neuroscience program by the fall 2020 semester. The program will be offered through the university’s College of Education. The new major will include courses on a wide range of topics such as electrophysiological research methods, mathematical cognitions, neuroimaging, and […]

November 7, 2018

News Roundup

Univ. of Alabama Students Can Use ID Card on Apple Watch

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — University of Alabama students will be able to use ID cards on the Apple Watches and iPhones this fall. The Tuscaloosa News reports an Apple statement said only have to raise their wrist to gain access to places including the library, dorms and events, pay for snacks, laundry and dinners around campus. […]

July 16, 2018

News Roundup

University of Alabama Researcher to Work on Navy Program

TUSCALOOSA — A teacher at the University of Alabama is getting more than $500,000 to conduct research with the U.S. Navy. A statement from the school says Andrew Lemmon, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, will receive the money over three years for his work with the Office of Naval Research. Lemmon is working […]

May 29, 2018

Students

Study Explores Challenges to Black Graduate Engineering Students

A new study that follows 21 Black men pursuing graduate degrees in engineering explores themes of structural racism, unfair treatment, unwelcoming environments and feelings of isolation.

April 10, 2018

News Roundup

Black History Author Wins University’s Writing Award

MONTGOMERY, Al. — An African-American author and professor has won University of Alabama’s annual non-fiction writing award for her work on women and black southern writers. A university statement Friday names Dr. Trudier Harris this year’s winner of the Clarence E. Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing. Harris has written or edited more than two dozen […]

February 18, 2018