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- Posted 04.23.25
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Entering the 2025 Miss Paragon Pageant was part of Avery Emory’s goal to push herself to do things outside her comfort zone.
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- Posted 03.17.23
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Though only a freshman, Caroline McKinley’s adoration of the arts is already blossoming at the University of West Alabama. Last fall, she worked behind the scenes with the UWA Theatre and performed as a member of the marching band’s color guard.
- Posted 03.03.23
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Through words and deeds, Dr. B.J. Kimbrough’s influence at the University of West Alabama seems to permeate every corner of campus. She’s a dean. She teaches. She’s the university’s chief diversity officer, chairs UWA’s Diversity Committee and serves on the president’s council.
- Posted 03.02.23
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An upcoming addition to the University of West Alabama campus will provide faculty, students and staff a unique outdoor space suitable for a variety of uses.
- Posted 02.16.23
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To honor the 2023 theme of Black History Month, the University of West Alabama is spotlighting its students, faculty, staff and a first-time member of the Alabama State Legislature.
- Posted 02.14.23
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Two by two, students from the University of West Alabama climbed along the eastern side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the hilly, 83-year-old Alabama River crossing that’s embedded in the nation’s civil rights story.
- Posted 02.03.23
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Midway between the state capitals of Alabama and Mississippi — keystone sites of the civil rights movement — sits the University of West Alabama campus. Other locations, namely Birmingham and Atlanta, are easy drives. It’s a stroke of geographic serendipity that UWA student engagement teams want to explore.
- Posted 02.02.23
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As the University of West Alabama celebrates Black History Month with several events in February, it also will welcome home one of its most influential and historical figures.
- Posted 01.27.23
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The University of West Alabama’s College of Business will welcome alumnus Brad Bolton to campus on Feb. 22. Bolton is chairman of the Independent Community of Bankers of America (ICBA) and will speak to students and guests in Bridges Auditorium at Wallace Hall. The talk is open to the community.
- Posted 01.26.23
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By the time fall arrives on the University of West Alabama campus, Dr. Reenay Rogers and her College of Education colleagues expect their newest endeavor to be worth the excitement it’s generating this winter.