Crimson Spotlight
Crimson Spotlight offers a closer look at people, events, activities and initiatives that illustrate The University of Alabama's impact on our state and our world.
New UA Mobile Web Site Optimizes Content for Smartphones
UA Mobile Web delivers content, services, and features that allow you to access and interact with The University of Alabama on the go using your iPhone, Blackberry, PDA, or other Smartphone.
Find Your Passion: A Football Field in a Teaspoon
When Elizabeth Junkin, a junior majoring in chemical and biological engineering, thinks of a football field, she envisions fitting it in a teaspoon.
Boardroom Brawls: Finance Researcher Reviews Internal Disputes, Consequences
A University of Alabama researcher examines boardroom disputes and their impact on the stock market.
Find Your Passion: Lights, Camera, Russell
The lights, applause and thrill of the stage inspire Russell Stephens, a sophomore at The University of Alabama and self-proclaimed “theater geek.”
Find Your Passion: WWI Romance Helps Student Bring History to Life
Mae and Lige were a young couple going through the everyday ups and downs of any relationship. Now, 90 years later, their old-fashioned courtship has been saved in their collection of letters, brought to life by University of Alabama honors student Daniel Bush.
Growing with Quality
With a record enrollment of 28,807 this fall, The University of Alabama continues to grow in size and quality.
VIDEO: Notes from Alabama
Watch video postcards from University of Alabama students as they share their experiences on campus and in the community, including Get on Board Day, Alabama Action, Outdoor Action, and Move-In Day.
VIDEO: I Work at UA
Watch video features from University of Alabama employees as they describe their unique roles and share what it's like to work at UA.
Find Your Passion: An Everyday Inspiration
Little did Kayla Terry know that her class project tribute to her older brother, born with Down syndrome, would leave her with more than a good grade.
Find Your Passion: Oorah! A Marine and a President
Cullen Millsap had all the qualities of a student leader before ever enrolling in his first class on The University of Alabama campus. Now, the UA senior is president of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, sharing his leadership skills for the benefit of others.
Find Your Passion: Former 'Walking Time Bomb' Launches Stroke Initiative
Sophomore Alan Blinder directs the new UA Pediatric Stroke Initiative, focused on education, advocacy and research.
Back to School 2009: Read "TWEEN" the Lines
UA experts offer advice on "Tween" topics including school transition, making friends, attitudes/behaviors, and shopping.
UA Matters: A Primer on Web 2.0 and Social Media
There was a time when writing meant using a pencil or pen to place words on a page and going to a meeting required some form of travel. Today, communication involves “tweeting,” “Skyping” and posting on something called a “wiki.” So how does one make sense of the new World Wide Web and how to use it?
Find Your Passion: Committed to Creativity
Not every 20-year-old can say they have premiered a film at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Nor can many say they are fluent in six languages. Laura Godorecci, a recent University of Alabama graduate, can.
UA Launches Virtual Campus Tour
Experience our beautiful campus for yourself through UA's new immersive and interactive virtual campus tour, which allows you to see campus as if you were actually here.
Links to Zinc: Nutrition Expert Finds Tie Between Trace Mineral, Birth Weights
Some counties in Alabama have infant mortality rates higher than those in some Third World counties. For a UA researcher, this gives added significance to recent findings that low blood zinc levels in expectant mothers can increase by eight times the risk of delivering low birth-weight babies.
Woods Quad Robot Sculpture Draws Attention, Provokes Thought
Goldie, the sculpture that looks like a rusty, prone robot, lies mute on Woods Quad. Curious, delighted visitors drawn to the enchanting novelty of a dead or sleeping robot hanging out on the grass in the middle of the University stand next to it and pose for pictures.
UA Matters: Teaching Children the Real Meaning of the Fourth of July
UA faculty offers fun ideas for teaching your children the real meaning of Independence Day.
UA Matters: Summertime - A Great Time to Get Active!
While you are busy doing your thing this summer, don't forget that summer is a great time to get in shape. “Warm weather brings more opportunities to be outside and that means more opportunities to increase your physical activity,” says George Brown, executive director of University Recreation at The University of Alabama.
Find Your Passion: Transformer of Characters First Changed Herself
The Grinch isn’t known for inspiration, but recreating and designing makeup to transform herself into the Grinch for a class project convinced Stesha Ross she had found her calling.
UA Matters: How to Adjust to Your College Student Returning Home for the Summer
One rite of summer, college students returning home, can sometimes mean rocky times for parents and the students when trying to adjust to living under one roof again.
Find Your Passion: Speaking of Passion...
For a member of UA's nationally acclaimed Alabama Forensics Council, there seems to be no better quality than a love of words – besides, perhaps, enthusiasm.
UA Matters: Mother's Day and Motherly Advice
UA Matters is a bi-weekly column that offers information and tips on consumer issues facing Alabamians. This week's edition provides some mother advice as Mother's Day approaches.
Spring Commencement Webcast
The University of Alabama tradition culminates for UA's Spring 2009 graduates when they receive their diplomas Saturday, May 9 in Coleman Coliseum.
Find Your Passion: Another Problem Solved
When Kyle Scott began his college search, he treated it like any engineer might – as a problem-solving challenge. Only this time he was on a quest to find an engineering program that perfectly matched his expectations.
UA Matters: Home Energy Tips for Earth Day, Every Day
This year marks the 39th anniversary of Earth Day, a worldwide movement to protect our planet, our children and our future. Dr. Keith Woodbury, professor of mechanical engineering, recommends numerous ways for people to make their homes more energy efficient.
Find Your Passion: Marathon Runners
A group of Honors College students is training to run the Country Music Half-Marathon, and they have found a supportive community and a passion for running in the process.
Find Your Passion: Crimson and Gold
When Mary Allison Milford made the decision to attend The University of Alabama, she wasn’t just thinking about Tuscaloosa – she was also thinking about Beijing.
Find Your Passion: Diabetes Advocate Changes How UA Eats
Whether or not you have met Dana Lewis, if you are a member of The University of Alabama community, she’s probably changed the way you eat lunch.
UA Matters: Top 5 College Prep Tips for High School Seniors' Final Semester
You’ve been accepted to college, assigned your dorm space, and lined up your course of study. So, it’s time to coast through your last semester of high school, right? You might want to rethink that.
UA Matters: Adventures in Alabama Gardening
With the warmer days of late winter upon us and the early flowers in bloom, it’s time to plan for the gardening season in Alabama. Tips from UA Matters can help with your planting.
Find Your Passion: The Dancing Doctor in the Making
Most people have a distinct preference for one type of thinking: they are left-brained or they are right-brained. Frank Barber, a senior double major in dance and biology at The University of Alabama, commands both.
UA Matters: "Puppy Love"
UA Matters is a weekly column that offers information and tips on consumer issues facing Alabamians. This week's edition gives parents tips for dealing with their kids' "puppy love."
Find Your Passion: The Virtual Capstone
Students interested in The University of Alabama now have an exciting new way to "tour" campus – through an online "world," known as Second Life.
Harnessing Energy
UA researchers are working to develop systems to reduce harmful emissions, produce new ways to harness energy, improve efficiency and increase fuel flexibility.
Find Your Passion: Helping Her Hometown
A University of Alabama student brings fellowship and health care together with a project she views as inspiration for a healthier Tuscaloosa.
Educated Guesses 2009
For the 28th consecutive year, UA's Office of Media Relations offers predictions from faculty experts for the coming year on the economy, state and national affairs, and other topics.
Find Your Passion: A Bridge to Somewhere
The first time Ynhi Thai set foot on the Capstone’s campus, she felt at home. Culture has led Ynhi Thai to a new passion at UA – utilizing what she’s learned to help others.
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.
UA Holiday Guide to Green
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.
Extending Health Care’s Reach
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.
Connecting Through Social Media
These days, the web is largely about creating community and connecting people with each other. UA's new Facebook and YouTube channels allow users to do that, and more.
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.
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.
UA Election Center 2008
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.
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.
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.
ABC's of Education
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Entrepreneurship at UA
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Can You Hear Me Now?
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.
Performance Reviews
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?