Recent News
- Posted 11.02.26
- 3 minute read time
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø community mourns the death of former president Dr. Richard D. Holland, the University’s tenth president and first alumnus to serve in the role.
News
- Posted 05.12.22
- 7 minute read time
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 05.11.22
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A distinguished educator and administrator who has taught in three states and a renowned retirement planner and training instructor have been inducted into the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Society of the Golden Key, the highest award given to its graduates and faculty members.
- Posted 04.22.22
- 8 minute read time
The short-term, faculty-led ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in Ireland program began in 2018 as a cost-effective way to broaden the university’s global reach and create a study-abroad option that featured neither language barriers nor exorbitant costs for students because of the compressed schedule, Riser said.
- Posted 04.22.22
- 8 minute read time
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
- 5 minute read time
In the Army National Guard, Breonsya White is an aviation operations specialist preparing for her first overseas deployment. At the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, she is a junior majoring in math education with aspirations of becoming a principal or professor.
- Posted 04.19.22
- 4 minute read time
For the first time since the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s 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 04.08.22
- 8 minute read time
If there’s any doubt that Tommy Hutchins is a bike guy, a gearhead who finds happiness while straddling horsepower, it’s dispelled in a single story so outlandish that it nonetheless must be true.
- Posted 04.07.22
- 6 minute read time
Dr. Valerie Burnes’ goal isn’t merely to house the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame and its plaques at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. She envisions something ultimately grand that celebrates not only the enshrinees’ lives but also introduces the university to a wider audience.
- Posted 04.01.22
- 3 minute read time
Students in the Kappa Delta Pi international education honor society are using spring’s rebirth on the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus to serve the community and raise money for a worthwhile cause.