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Lesa Carnes Shaul spent the first 18 years of her life on Sand Mountain, where the Kilpatrick shooting, as it was known locally, took place. Compelled to revisit it, she describes her book as her "love letter to home."
Flyer for 2022 Faculty Colloquium.

The upcoming 2022 Spring Faculty Colloquium at the University of West Alabama will focus on a vital theme: how faculty, administration and staff can better serve the student population in Livingston.

Illia Dehodiuk and Andrii Stratiienko.

Ilia Dehodiuk never stops checking his phone. Never. โ€œLiterally every minute,โ€ he says. He checks it each morning. While walking to class. Before practice. After practice. Before bed. Next day, same thing. He has to check. He must.

Dr. Amy Jones.

As silly as it seems, good-olโ€™ doughnuts -- not beignets from France, not baklava from Turkey, not cannoli from Sicily -- partially fueled Dr. Amy Jonesโ€™ path to the honoreesโ€™ 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 familyโ€™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 Alabamaโ€™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 Alabamaโ€™sย Julia Tutwiler Libraryย 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 couldnโ€™t ultimately prevent -- stage a production of โ€œSteel Magnolias,โ€ the renowned 1987 play that humanizes the depths of Southern womenโ€™s relationships and life experiences

Shelby Gandy laughs while admitting she โ€œwas never the athletic one out of me and my sisters.โ€ 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.

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