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'Steel Magnolias' cast.

‘Steel Magnolias’ coming to the stage at UWA

  • Posted 03.01.22
  • 5 minute read time

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

UWA student displays her creative skills at the state Capitol

  • Posted 03.01.22
  • 4 minute read time
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.
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UWA students helping taxpayers file their returns

  • Posted 02.25.22
  • 4 minute read time

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.

BOSS II scholarship highlights West Alabama’s biology program

  • Posted 02.11.22
  • 5 minute read time
Dr. John McCall, dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of West Alabama, is an unabashed fan of UWA’s biology program. The reasons are numerous, though one sits firmly atop his list.
Kelly McClure.

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: Kelly McClure, Division of Nursing

  • Posted 01.28.22
  • 8 minute read time

Nursing seeped into Kelly McClure’s world not by accident or epiphany, but via something just as effective. Youthful curiosity, fleeting as it often is, won out

UWA Choral Union releases ‘Stronger Together’ album

  • Posted 01.21.22
  • 9 minute read time
With artwork loosely based on one of rock music’s iconic images and a track listing of studio and live recordings, the University of West Alabama Choral Union’s recently released album may exemplify one trait more than all others: perseverance.

UWA announces Fall 2021 President’s and Dean’s Lists honors

  • Posted 01.21.22
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The University of West Alabama has announced more than 600 outstanding undergraduate students named to the President’s List and the Dean’s List for the Fall 2021 academic semester.

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Jodie Winship, College of Education

  • Posted 01.19.22
  • 7 minute read time
It’s the underdogs, Dr. Jodie Winship says, who tug at her heart, the unpopular, the excluded, the downtrodden, the people whose circumstances often separate them from the rest. Her explanation is quite organic. “We were poor growing up and didn’t have a lot,” she says, “so I was always for that kid who didn’t have it.”

Sisters, teachers — and now graduates of UWA’s College of Education

  • Posted 01.12.22
  • 6 minute read time
There’s a symmetry that often blossoms between sisters, shared commonalities that become unmistakable. Ebony Ware-Parks and Kiera Ware could have enjoyed such a uniformity when they chose colleges.
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