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Emerging Scholar Profile: Guggilla’s Aspiration and Effort in Physics

Growing up in South India, Dr. Padmaja “Paddy” Guggilla had an acute sense of the importance of education.

January 30, 2018

News Roundup

University of Alabama Student Expelled for Racial Slurs in Online Videos

A University of Alabama student repeatedly used a racial slur in videos posted on social media, prompting immediate condemnation from school officials and her apparent expulsion Wednesday. University President Stuart R. Bell called the videos “highly offensive and deeply hurtful,” and said the student, Harley Barber, is “no longer enrolled here.” “We hold our students […]

January 18, 2018

Sports

The Role of Analytics in Studying the Hiring of Black Coaches in College Football

In the dizzying merry-go-round that is the hiring of head coaches in college football, Willie Taggart is an island of one. He is the only Black head coach to serve four Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) major-college programs.

January 17, 2018

Students

Alabama Program Aims to Recruit Hispanic Nurses

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama is launching a program to increase the number of Hispanic nurses involved in health care. The Capstone College of Nursing has received a $1.7 million grant for the Bama-Latino Project, which aims to recruit Hispanics into baccalaureate nursing programs. Alabama nursing professor Normal Cuellar says in a statement […]

July 9, 2017

Students

Black Junior to Lead Student Government at University of Alabama

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A Black University of Alabama student supported by a secretive campus group long controlled by Whites has been elected student government president, breaking a barrier that seemed unlikely to fall a few years ago. Junior marketing major Jared Hunter won the office in balloting Tuesday, carrying 54 percent of the vote in […]

March 8, 2017

Sports

Column: Amid Abuses, College Sports Sometimes Gets it Right

TAMPA, Fla. — Deshaun Watson wanted to be first. We’re not talking about anything he’s done on the football field. The Clemson quarterback may be going for a national championship Monday night, but he’s already scored one of the biggest victories of his life. In just three years, Watson became the first member of his […]

January 8, 2017

Students

Attorney Gets Prison Time After Stashing $234K from Sorority

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ― A South Carolina lawyer has been given a six-month prison sentence after stashing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a shoebox as part of a scam involving a $14 million sorority house at the University of Alabama. News outlets report that 40-year-old Jennifer Elizabeth Meehan of Sandy Springs, South Carolina, was also […]

October 26, 2016

Students

South Carolina Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Alabama Sorority Scam

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ― A South Carolina lawyer pleaded guilty to bank fraud in a scam involving construction of a $14 million, 40,000-square-foot sorority house at the University of Alabama, prosecutors said Wednesday. Jennifer Elizabeth Meehan, 39, of Sandy Springs, South Carolina, pleaded guilty Tuesday during a federal court hearing in Huntsville to submitting false invoices […]

July 13, 2016

Sports

University of Alabama’s Rivers Will Not Be Deterred

The 2015 Arthur Ashe Jr. Female Sports Scholar of the Year always rises to meet a challenge, whether it’s on the volleyball court, in the classroom or in her personal life.

April 15, 2015

African-American

African-American Literary Stars Return to Roots

A­fter teaching and writing for decades at prestigious institutions outside their native states, Trudier Harris and Nikky Finney return to their native Southern states to teach.

April 1, 2015