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UWA College of Nursing offers free Stop the Bleed training for rural Alabama

  • Posted 04.04.25
  • 2 minute read time
The University of West Alabama’s College of Nursing is bringing Stop the Bleed® training to rural Alabama through a $25,000 grant from the Alabama Association of RC&D Councils for the Tombigbee, Ala-Tom, and Gulf Coast regions.

Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence brings expertise to UWA

  • Posted 01.12.23
  • 5 minute read time
The impetus for Dr. Thomas Saile’s 5,000-mile journey from southeast Germany to the University of West Alabama is steeped in academic cooperation between institutions separated by international borders and the Atlantic Ocean. But it also carries a simplistic twist.

National Heritage Area designation a long-awaited achievement for Black Belt and UWA

  • Posted 01.11.23
  • 8 minute read time
The day after President Biden signed the National Heritage Act into law, the phone rang on Dr. Tina Jones’ desk at the University of West Alabama. The caller was two time zones away, a Ph.D.-holding Californian who sought Jones’ help.

UWA announces Fall 2022 President’s and Dean’s Lists honors

  • Posted 01.11.23
  • 267 minute read time
The University of West Alabama has announced nearly 700 outstanding undergraduate students named to the President’s List and the Dean’s List for the Fall 2022 academic semester.

Four of UWA’s faculty & staff awarded for service

  • Posted 12.13.22
  • 7 minute read time
The University of West Alabama presented four prestigious awards to members of its faculty and staff during the Dec. 12 Board of Trustees quarterly meeting at Bell Conference Center. The Loraine McIlwain Bell Trustee Awards and the Nellie Rose McCrory Service Excellence Award were presented to distinguished employees.

Four of UWA’s faculty and staff awarded for service

  • Posted 12.13.22
  • 6 minute read time
The University of West Alabama presented four prestigious awards to members of its faculty and staff during the Dec. 13 Board of Trustees quarterly meeting at Bell Conference Center. The Loraine McIlwain Bell Trustee Awards and the Nellie Rose McCrory Service Excellence Award were presented to distinguished employees.

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.

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