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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The University of Alabama tradition culminated for UA's Fall 2008 graduates when they received their diplomas Saturday, December 13 in Coleman Coliseum.
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.
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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.
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.
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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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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.