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UWA partners with Southern Regional Technical College to enhance opportunities in environmental science and conservation education

  • Posted 02.17.25
  • 2 minute read time
The University of West Alabama (UWA) and Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to create a streamlined transfer pathway for students pursuing careers in environmental science and conservation.

University Charter School comes full circle with senior class

  • Posted 12.13.22
  • 10 minute read time
From day one, aspirations and expectations have lived alongside education at University Charter School. They’re baked into its foundation, thoughts of academic achievement and varsity football and alumni returning every fall. But none has been more transformational than dreams about a senior class walking the hallways of the school located on the campus of the University of West Alabama.

Graham’s legacy at UWA now includes Kappa Alpha Psi scholarship

  • Posted 11.30.22
  • 10 minute read time
It’s understandable that Michele Graham Bradford unpacks memories of her late brother as if he were sitting beside her, smiling as she speaks. The recollections flow easily, sincere as the summer day is long. “He meant the world to us,” she said, “but every year we find out what he meant to other people, as well. He was just a great man.”

The ‘sense of whimsy’ emanating from Shaul’s office at UWA

  • Posted 11.28.22
  • 10 minute read time
When Dr. Lesa Shaul reclines in her chair, within arm’s reach are shelves of classic literature, the poetry of Percy Shelley, William Faulkner’s streams of consciousness, the brilliance of Robert Penn Warren. For a professor of English, the cramped space seems an oasis of calm, a few square feet bloated with printed words worthy of memorization.

Kern Family Foundation awards UWA $1.74M for educator character development

  • Posted 11.18.22
  • 5 minute read time
The University of West Alabama’s College of Education has been selected by the Kern Family Foundation for a $1.74 million philanthropic grant to fund an initiative designed to help strengthen rural education in UWA’s Black Belt footprint.

Fulbright Award provides UWA’s Dumas with unique opportunity

  • Posted 11.04.22
  • 6 minute read time
A mixture of serendipity and archeology, with a pinch of salt on the side, is behind Dr. Ashley Dumas’ recent Fulbright Specialist Award and her upcoming trip to the University of Rzeszow in Poland.

UWA’s erstwhile stargazer brings his passion to students

  • Posted 11.03.22
  • 7 minute read time
On Alabama nights when clouds didn’t shroud the stars, Lucas Johnson and his father would haul a powerful telescope from their basement into an open space and explore the heavens. They lived “in the middle of nowhere,” a bit south of Decatur, where light pollution was rare as a neighborhood hockey game.

UWA participating in Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills program

  • Posted 10.18.22
  • 5 minute read time
Dr. Andrew Rindsberg, a professor of geology and paleontology at the University of West Alabama, needs no reminder of the last time the earth wobbled with severity in Alabama.

Three’s not a crowd for Crews triplets at UWA

  • Posted 10.17.22
  • 9 minute read time
As his sisters traded catty one-liners meant to get under his skin, Trace Crews glanced their way, to his left and his right, and chuckled as if it were no big deal. He’d heard their spiels before.

Helping students attain their degrees is goal of UWA reengagement program

  • Posted 10.04.22
  • 3 minute read time
A federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education is helping the University of West Alabama re-engage with former students who may be close to completing their degree requirements and usher them to commencement day.

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