August 26th, 2021

This year, Honors students, leaders and volunteers worked at Brookwood Elementary, Cottondale Elementary and Davis-Emerson Middle School, completing many projects. Some of this year’s projects included: painting murals, picnic tables and sidewalks; landscaping; building benches, chalkboard stands and podiums to accommodate outdoor learning spaces; and creating sensory boards and hallway art for special education units. Some groups went above and beyond to cultivate a sense of place between the schools and the greater Alabama community.

May 19th, 2021

A University of Alabama student has received a Fulbright Student Research Award and three students have won Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Awards for the 2021–2022 academic year.

May 11th, 2021

Honors freshman David Ware’s Common Book assignment was recently published in Capstone Commentary, the online platform for UA’s legal research journal.

May 7th, 2021

University of Alabama honors student Ann Williams has received a Boren Scholarship for the study of languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad.

May 6th, 2021

Attending The University of Alabama is a proud family tradition for many who follow in the footsteps of generations of UA alumni who came before them.

May 5th, 2021

Emma Sanders, who studied chemical engineering at The University of Alabama, received the 2021 Capstone Engineering Society Outstanding Senior Award.

April 8th, 2021

The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program has selected two University of Alabama students as Goldwater Scholars for 2021-2022. The selections bring the number of UA students who have received Goldwater scholarships to 59.

February 12th, 2021

Three University of Alabama students, including one Honors student, have been awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to participate in study abroad programs during the 2021-2022 academic year.

December 7th, 2020

Caroline Yuk, a senior from Crystal Lake, Illinois, is the third UA student to win the award and first in more than 40 years. The scholarship provides aid to American students to study at graduate-level U.K. institutions in any field of study. Yuk, an interdisciplinary studies major in UA’s New College and a member of the Honors College, will pursue postgraduate degrees in neuroscience at the University of Oxford and audiology science at University College London. “Earning the Marshall Scholarship means the absolute world to me,” said Yuk. “It’s the greatest validation that I’m living in such a way that gives back to all who have helped me along the way, including my parents, siblings, friends and mentors.”

December 1st, 2020

Nick Hayes is an Honors student who exemplifies what it means to be a learned scholar—a critical and creative thinker, an ethical and empathetic citizen and a collaborative and inclusive leader. Hayes planned to organize an ultramarathon fundraiser for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation (PBTF). But, like many aspects of our lives that we took for granted, Nick’s philanthropic plans changed with the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic—no ultramarathon