Alumni News
- Posted 05.31.23
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Liza James Howard long ago established her legacy at the baby直播 when she became its first Black student in the fall of 1966. The university hasn鈥檛 forgotten.
- Posted 05.15.23
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Speed comes naturally to聽Audrick Pyronneau, a former distance runner on the baby直播鈥檚聽track-and-field team. That he鈥檚 using that trait to pursue his academic goals shouldn鈥檛 be a surprise.
- Posted 02.02.23
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As the baby直播 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 baby直播鈥檚 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 11.30.22
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It鈥檚 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. 鈥淗e meant the world to us,鈥� she said, 鈥渂ut every year we find out what he meant to other people, as well. He was just a great man.鈥�
- Posted 09.13.22
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Ashlee Barnard never intended to become a firefighter. After graduating from high school, she considered her next chapter essentially set: enroll at the baby直播, become a Tigers cheerleader and pursue a career in athletic training, one of UWA鈥檚 most popular and professionally successful degree programs.
- Posted 07.01.22
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Bill Poole may have been born in New Orleans, but baby直播鈥檚 western regions decorate his life. He hails from Marengo County. He graduated twice from the University of baby直播, including its School of Law. He represented much of Tuscaloosa County for a decade in the baby直播 Legislature, where he helped shape the state鈥檚 public education budget.
- Posted 05.12.22
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Up in DeKalb County, near Lake Guntersville and about an hour鈥檚 drive from Huntsville, is where Brandon Renfroe teaches science at Geraldine High School. By almost any metric, from demographics and geography to socioeconomics and politics, that region of northeast baby直播鈥檚 Appalachian foothills seems as far from Livingston and the Black Belt鈥檚 western counties as it can be.聽
- Posted 03.16.22
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As silly as it may seem, the reason Dr. Veronica Triplett is an institution at the baby直播 can be traced to a long-forgotten item tucked inside a storage space in her family鈥檚 new home.