Faculty/Staff News
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- Posted 07.11.23
- 2 minute read time
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- Posted 06.16.23
- 9 minute read time
![Dr. Amanda Pendergrass](https://www.uwa.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Pendergrass-.jpeg)
- Posted 05.30.23
- 5 minute read time
Upon hearing that she’d won the University of West Alabama’s most prestigious faculty award, Dr. Amanda Pendergrass walked to the lectern and addressed the commencement crowd.
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- Posted 05.12.23
- 8 minute read time
The hints inside Dr. Richard Schellhammer’s crowded campus office aren’t subtle. They reveal personal secrets: who he is, what he adores, how he fills his days. History books bloat his bookshelves. Framed trinkets of his academic expertise -- pre-World War I Germany -- hang near the desk.
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- Posted 04.12.23
- 5 minute read time
![Kristen and Nick Woodruff](https://www.uwa.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_3693.jpeg)
- Posted 04.04.23
- 12 minute read time
Young, recently married and rich only in aspirations, the Woodruffs once lived in Monticello, a college town about 40 miles west of the Mississippi River. Nick, a graduate assistant at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, had been promoted to assistant coach of the Boll Weevils’ men’s basketball team. Kristen had a job -- in Ohio -- but resigned to join her husband’s career dream.
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- Posted 04.03.23
- 3 minute read time
The University of West Alabama recently hosted 73 students from 16 different high schools for a one-day leadership conference. Kirstan Cunningham was confident about the experience’s potential.
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- Posted 03.03.23
- 10 minute read time
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- Posted 01.12.23
- 5 minute read time