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Three’s not a crowd for Crews triplets at UWA

  • Posted 10.17.22
  • 9 minute read time
As his sisters traded catty one-liners meant to get under his skin, Trace Crews glanced their way, to his left and his right, and chuckled as if it were no big deal. He’d heard their spiels before.

SGA president’s message to UWA students: Get involved

  • Posted 09.26.22
  • 5 minute read time
Armed with a megawatt smile and ample familial assistance, Aaron Lee appears perfectly suited for the presidency of the University of West Alabama’s Student Government Association. He’s a senior. His sister, Aeriel Lee, is a UWA alumna. Two of his cousins, siblings Jasmine Knox and Jonathan Knox, are former SGA presidents at UWA. Though not preordained, his election seems exactly that.

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

  • Posted 06.01.22
  • 177 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 Spring 2022 academic semester.

UWA students finally experience long-delayed Ireland trip

  • Posted 04.22.22
  • 8 minute read time
The short-term, faculty-led UWA in Ireland program began in 2018 as a cost-effective way to broaden the university’s global reach and create a study-abroad option that featured neither language barriers nor exorbitant costs for students because of the compressed schedule, Riser said.
UWA student Breonsya White.

UWA has grand plans for its new Veterans Success Center

  • Posted 04.19.22
  • 5 minute read time

In the Army National Guard, Breonsya White is an aviation operations specialist preparing for her first overseas deployment. At the University of West Alabama, she is a junior majoring in math education with aspirations of becoming a principal or professor.

Illia Dehodiuk and Andrii Stratiienko.

War in Ukraine weighs heavy on minds of UWA’s Dehodiuk, Stratiienko

  • Posted 03.17.22
  • 12 minute read time

Ilia Dehodiuk never stops checking his phone. Never. “Literally every minute,” 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.

'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
  • 3 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.

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.
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