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It’s a good year to graduate
Tuscaloosa News – April 8
“Recruiting is great," said Jerry Paschal, director of the University of Alabama Career Center. So great, in fact, that the university had to hold a second ...

Low unemployment rate good for grads
Crimson White -- April 9
A report released from Gov. Bob Riley's office last week said unemployment rates for the state have remained at 3.3 percent, well below the 4.5 percent national average. For many graduating seniors, the unemployment rate…

HIP-HOP VIOLINIST and composer
Tuscaloosa News – April 9
…premiere a composition by hip-hop violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain at a concert Tuesday. The original piece commemorates the heroism of the desegregation of the university through such important figures as Vivian Malone Jones…

Honors Day
WVUA-TV -- April 6
Kathleen Cramer, senior associate vice president for student affairs, and student Joan-Marie Manolakis were interviewed about Honors Day…

Is It Time for Big Bird to Die?
Encarta (MSN.com) – April 7
As Professor Jennings Bryant of the University of Alabama explained it, the choice to put educational fare on the air was done intentionally, after the British saw the effects of unregulated commercial stuff in the United States…

Bill seeks death for molestation
Birmingham News – April 9
…former circuit court judge who now is a law professor at the University of Alabama. 'The conventional professional wisdom has been that the death…

Shift from low-skill jobs has helped Alabama
Huntsville Times – April 8
... they are low-skill and low-wage jobs," said Ferguson, professor emeritus at the University of Alabama's Center for Business and Economic Research. ...

Saban: 'We all need to stick together'
Mobile Register – April 8
University of Alabama football fans almost universally rejoiced when athletics director Mal Moore lured Nick Saban away from the Miami ...

Easter hats still a perfect fit for many churchgoing women
Tuscaloosa News – April 8
…became less formal," said Virginia Wimberley, assistant professor of clothing, textiles and interior design at the University of Alabama…

UA's LSAT test center is No. 2
Crimson White – April 9
The UA LSAT testing center was ranked 117 of the 349 centers ranked nationally in the test site rater…

Jump Into Life
WBRC/Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 6 and 7
Nathan Ballard, who has cerebral palsy, skydived as part of the kick-off of a University of Alabama campaign called Jump Into Life. The campaign is designed to show people no matter their disability that there is no limitation on life…

Raising the flag: Team is ranked fifth internationally
Crimson White – April 9
…the team that will enter the Winter Guard International Color Guard World Championships - a team ranked in fifth place nationally going into the championship…

Alabama Rowing Sweeps Murray State in Inaugural Home Meet
MyFox-Birmingham – April 7
The University of Alabama Rowing Team capped its first home rowing meet as a varsity program with a perfect 5-for-5 sweep of the Murray State Racers ...

UA health conference set to begin April 19
Birmingham News – April 9
The University of Alabama will host the eighth annual rural health conference April 19-20 in Tuscaloosa at the Bryant Conference Center on UA's campus…

AU honors veteran journalists
Montgomery Advertiser – April 7
Mullins is a University of Alabama graduate who has served as a journalism professor, department head and dean of UA's College of Communication and ...

College News
Tuscaloosa News – April 9
The fall 2006 president’s list at the University of Alabama includes the following students…

Martone visiting
Indianapolis Star – April 8
Michael Martone…the Fort Wayne-born author, now an English professor at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, is making two local appearances this week.

Tuscaloosa County Civic Hall of Fame Inductees shaped county
Tuscaloosa News – April 8
The class of 2007 includes the Rev. E.J. James, pastor of New Zion Baptist Church in Northport and late Bessie Booth, George Denny, Pettus Randall III, Ryan deGraffenried Jr. and Claud A. Morrison