Academics News
- Posted 07.01.22
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As an associate professor of sport management at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, the 55-year-old Hutchinson is renowned for his passion for teaching, a willingness to mentor students, and his admitted love of sports. In May, Hutchinson was selected by the student body for the William E. Gilbert Award, one of ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s most prestigious annual honors that recognizes outstanding teaching and excellence in classroom instruction.
- Posted 06.30.22
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Dr. Jan Miller is ecstatic that a renowned education association has accredited a degree program in the ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s Julia S. Tutwiler College of Education. She’s not satisfied, though. One isn’t enough.
- Posted 06.01.22
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The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has announced nearly 700 outstanding undergraduate students named to the President’s List and the Dean’s List for the Spring 2022 academic semester.
- Posted 05.27.22
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Polite as possible, Dr. Chineda Hill, an associate professor of nursing at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, is nonetheless adamant. She permits no hesitation. She harbors no doubt. A smile shades her spunk. “I’m a nurse,â€� she said.Â
- Posted 05.12.22
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Up in DeKalb County, near Lake Guntersville and about an hour’s drive from Huntsville, is where Brandon Renfroe teaches science at Geraldine High School. By almost any metric, from demographics and geography to socioeconomics and politics, that region of northeast Alabama’s Appalachian foothills seems as far from Livingston and the Black Belt’s western counties as it can be.Â
- Posted 04.22.22
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Somewhere amid Shakespearean comedies and Samuel Johnson poetry is where Dr. Stephen Slimp’s literary utopia exists. It’s embedded among the Nobel Prize-winning works of Herta Muller and Mario Vargas Llosa and Orhan Pamuk, the tome-like writing of Leo Tolstoy and the storytelling of novelist Miguel de Cervantes.
- Posted 04.19.22
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For the first time since the ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s nursing education program was established in 1974, a cohort of nurses are on their way to earning a bachelor’s degree in nursing from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
- Posted 04.01.22
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When Dr. Amy Jones, chair of the ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s Department of Communications, made a presentation recently for a state-level awards program, she didn’t go empty-handed.
- Posted 03.17.22
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Ilia Dehodiuk never stops checking his phone. Never. “Literally every minute,� he says. He checks it each morning. While walking to class. Before practice. After practice. Before bed. Next day, same thing. He has to check. He must.