Higher Education — Page 32

UNA's Pine Street bridge to get safety upgrades

FLORENCE – The City of Florence plans safety upgrades to the bridge on Pine Street, one of the roads that runs through the University of North Alabama campus. One plan […]

HUNTSVILLE – Scientists from the University of Alabama in Huntsville are preparing to study hurricane characteristics to better predict the intensity of these storms before they make landfall. Hurricane season […]

Drake State, Miles agreement breaks barriers

FAIRFIELD – Miles College and Drake State Community & Technical College have partnered to create scholarship opportunities and pathways to earning a bachelor’s degree. The institutions’ presidents signed an articulation […]

Aviagen helping hatch 'poultry house of tomorrow'

HUNTSVILLE – Aviagen has made a significant donation toward the development of a Poultry Science Smart Farming Research Facility for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. Called the […]

UNA expands offerings in medical, engineering fields

FLORENCE — The University of North Alabama continues to expand its academic offerings in its effort to ensure a qualified and well-equipped workforce for the Shoals area, the school announced. […]

HUNTSVILLE – Calhoun Community College and the University of Alabama in Huntsville signed an Advanced Manufacturing Memorandum of Understanding. The partnership creates a seamless transferable career path for Calhoun students […]

TANNER — Age is no barrier when it comes to Calhoun Community College’s summer camps. The school released this summer’s schedule and there is something for everyone from elementary-school-age kids […]

HUNTSVILLE – Drake State Community & Technical College President Dr. Patricia Sims has been named to the board of the American Association of Community Colleges. The AACC represents more than […]

HUNTSVILLE – It’s a three-peat for Dr. Vineetha Menon. An associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Menon was named the Institute […]

HANCEVILLE — Wallace State students are benefitting from a tool that will help them in their careers as radiation therapists. The school’s Diagnostic Imaging program introduced the Radiation Therapy option […]

FLORENCE – Ellie Talbot and Ellie Thompson, University of North Alabama graduates from the Department of Foreign Languages, have received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award from the U.S. Department […]

HUNTSVILLE — If you see a need fill it, and that is the goal of a partnership between Huntsville Utilities, the Tennessee Valley Authority and Calhoun Community College. The two […]

Miles College, Drake State to sign agreement

FAIRFIELD – When HBCUs come together for the common good, everyone benefits. To that end, Miles College and Drake State Community & Technical College have announced a partnership for scholarship […]

UNA alum wins State Department IT fellowship

FLORENCE – A North Alabama alumnus is taking his degree and talents to the U.S. government. Following a highly competitive application process, Brandon Sanders, who graduated in 2019 with his […]

Local UA students win Fulbright Awards

TUSCALOOSA — The Fulbright Program has selected two University of Alabama students from North Alabama for English teaching awards for the 2023-2024 academic year, the university announced. Austin Gregory of Muscle […]

UNA includes mental health screenings for student-athletes

FLORENCE — As more athletes acknowledge the toll that school, sports, and life in general take on their mental health, colleges and universities are stepping up their game when it […]

TANNER – Four North Alabama high school students are walking through open doors of opportunity as they graduated from high school this spring with not only a high school diploma, […]

HUNTSVILLE – Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are two of the most energetic processes in the solar system, showering the Earth’s magnetic field with billions of tons of highly […]

NW-Shoals plans $30M reno for Phil Campbell campus

PHIL CAMPBELL – Changes are coming to the Phil Campbell campus of Northwest-Shoals Community College. School officials announced Monday plans for a $30 million building and renovation project for the […]

UNA Nursing honors Florence Nethery Duncan

FLORENCE – The University of North Alabama has named its bachelor of science in nursing program for Florence Helen Nethery Duncan. The ceremony  program, a foundational major within the Anderson […]

UAH launches summer 'bridge' program

HUNTSVILLE – The University of Alabama in Huntsville has launched a high-school-to-college transition program for eligible incoming freshmen who plan to major in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) fields. […]

HUNTSVILLE — Calhoun Community College students took on a real-world assignment designed by Huntsville-based Intuitive Research and Technology. Through the school’s Systems Engineering Technology (SET) program, 12 students used model-based […]

More than 1,000 to graduate from UNA in six ceremonies

FLORENCE – In an annual rite of spring in the Shoals, more than 1,000 students are set to graduate this year from the University of North Alabama. It will take six ceremonies […]

TANNER — Calhoun Community College is hosting its annual SWeETy Welding Camp at its Decatur campus this summer. The camp, through a partnership with the Decatur-Morgan County Chamber of Commerce, […]