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Growing up in Pleasant Grove, Alabama, Treajure Caffee was the quiet student who preferred to observe rather than engage. Recently, the UWA clinical psychology major was selected by the National Institute of Justice Research (NIJ) to attend its 2024 conference held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania —an opportunity that many online students rarely receive.
Dr. Amy Jones.

As silly as it seems, good-ol’ doughnuts -- not beignets from France, not baklava from Turkey, not cannoli from Sicily -- partially fueled Dr. Amy Jones’ path to the honorees’ table at the upcoming West Alabama Young Leaders Awards.

As silly as it may seem, the reason Dr. Veronica Triplett is an institution at the University of West Alabama can be traced to a long-forgotten item tucked inside a storage space in her family’s new home.
University Cinema.

For two years, University Cinema in downtown Livingston existed not as a movie theater, but as a time capsule for life immediately before the Covid-19 pandemic shuddered most of the world.

Peanut Jones delivering the mail at UWA.

Besides his ebullience and can-do attitude, Peanut Jones is essentially the University of West Alabama’s human divining rod. If it exists on campus, he almost assuredly knows where it is, how to find it, and the quickest way to make it happen.

Ruth Beaumont Cook's Magic in Stone Book Cover

The University of West Alabama’s Julia Tutwiler Library will host a book talk by author Ruth Beaumont Cook at the library on Tuesday, March 15, from 2-4 p.m. The public is invited to attend this free event. Refreshments will be served, and Ms. Cook will be signing copies for sale.

'Steel Magnolias' cast.

For three nights in March, students and faculty at the University of West Alabama will do something the pandemic stalled but couldn’t ultimately prevent -- stage a production of “Steel Magnolias,” the renowned 1987 play that humanizes the depths of Southern women’s relationships and life experiences

Shelby Gandy laughs while admitting she “was never the athletic one out of me and my sisters.” In her Sumter County family, she was the one who enrolled in art camp, who attended painting classes, whose personality always leaned to the creative side. Art rarely strayed far from the center.
Income tax form

For two decades, accounting students at the University of West Alabama have participated in a federal program that assists low-income and disabled workers file their tax returns.

When U.S. Rep. John Lewis died in 2020, he bequeathed to the world a complex and inspiring legacy that serves as a testament to dogged nonviolent opposition and a roadmap of America’s civil rights movement.

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