Dr. Ralph Lane is usually the person in his family who does “all the food preparation,” he proudly says. But, the tables turn on Father’s Day for this father of four and University of Alabama professor of nutrition when his wife and children prepare some of his favorite foods.
The University of Alabama is offering assistance for area teachers to help them meet the requirements to become Highly Qualified teachers, a designation mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act.
Let’s say, for the sake of illustration, you want to open a nail salon in Alabama’s Butler County and need to know how many teen-aged and adult women live in Greenville and the immediate area.
The University of Alabama hosted the 33rd annual Alabama Federation of Spanish Clubs Convention competition for high school students on campus during the spring semester.
University of Alabama President Robert E. Witt today announced the appointment of Dr. Samory Pruitt as vice president for community relations at UA, pending Board of Trustees’ approval.
Charles T. Adair, a 1994 graduate of The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, has been named the business school’s director of development.
Researchers at The University of Alabama, who have found a way to mimic epileptic seizures in the tiny roundworm C. elegans, have published their findings in the current issue of a top ranked scientific journal. The efforts could make the worm a powerful model for unraveling the molecular regulation of epilepsy, a condition that affects 2 percent of the population.
UA’s Cooperative Education Program is an academic program in which a student alternates periods of full-time study with periods of full-time employment. The program offers work experience to academic major or career interests of each student. It also enhances the student’s employment prospects after graduation.
The latest casualty of the state’s financial shortfalls is the granddaddy of all do-it-yourself used oil recycling programs – Project R.O.S.E. (Recycled Oil Saves Energy). One of this nation’s oldest programs, Project R.O.S.E. was recently notified its state funding was being eliminated after Sept. 30. Strategic changes in direction for the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs’ (ADECA) Science, Technology and Energy Division was the stated reason for the cutback.
The University of Alabama Blackburn Institute recently inducted the following new student fellows in an on-campus reception.