A Class Runs Through It: UA Professor Teaches About the Environment Through Course on Fly Fishing

Studying and writing aren’t enough to make the grade in Dr. Michael Steinberg’s Spring 2009 course in The University of Alabama’s New College. To pass this class, you first must catch the bass – or trout. Students will have to get in a river and catch a fish on a fly.

UA in the News: January 7, 2009

UA faculty/staff comment on gas prices, bankruptcies, the economy and AMSTI – Energy conservation campaign begins — UA’s retirement community

UA Receives Scholarship Support from the Wachovia Foundation

The University of Alabama has received a $250,000 gift from The Wachovia Foundation to establish the Wachovia Foundation First Generation Scholarships. The first Wachovia Foundation First Generation Scholars will be selected beginning in the fall of 2009.

UA in the News: January 6, 2009

UA chemist creates benzenelike molecule – UA traffic technology helps senior drivers – UA history prof. comments on FDR’s New Deal

Speech, Music to Merge in 20th ‘Realizing the Dream’ Concert Jan. 17 at UA

A noted speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the voices contained in seven Tuscaloosa-area choirs will merge during the 2009 “Realizing the Dream … A Long, Long Way” concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at the Concert Hall in The University of Alabama’s Moody Music Building.

Pianist Andrew Willis Starts New Year for UA Celebrity Series

Noted pianist Andrew Willis will perform the next concert of the 2008-2009 University of Alabama Celebrity Series at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 15 in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building on the UA campus.