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- Posted 07.23.25
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Four University of West Alabama marine biology majors spent 10 weeks gaining hands-on experience in marine science during a summer program at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.
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- Posted 06.27.22
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Her Foust Hall office is adorned with jerseys and balls autographed by Tiger athletes. She refers to UWA’s coaches as “my coaches.” Her boss, Director of Athletics Kent Partridge, admits she is his department’s sole constant. “And thank the Good Lord for that,” he said.
- Posted 06.01.22
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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.
- Posted 05.27.22
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Polite as possible, Dr. Chineda Hill, an associate professor of nursing at the University of West Alabama, is nonetheless adamant. She permits no hesitation. She harbors no doubt. A smile shades her spunk. “I’m a nurse,” she said.
- Posted 05.12.22
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Up in DeKalb County, near Lake Guntersville and about an hour’s 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 Alabama’s Appalachian foothills seems as far from Livingston and the Black Belt’s western counties as it can be.
- Posted 05.11.22
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A distinguished educator and administrator who has taught in three states and a renowned retirement planner and training instructor have been inducted into the University of West Alabama’s Society of the Golden Key, the highest award given to its graduates and faculty members.
- Posted 04.22.22
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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.
- Posted 04.22.22
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Somewhere amid Shakespearean comedies and Samuel Johnson poetry is where Dr. Stephen Slimp’s literary utopia exists. It’s embedded among the Nobel Prize-winning works of Herta Muller and Mario Vargas Llosa and Orhan Pamuk, the tome-like writing of Leo Tolstoy and the storytelling of novelist Miguel de Cervantes.
- Posted 04.19.22
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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.
- Posted 04.19.22
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For the first time since the University of West Alabama’s nursing education program was established in 1974, a cohort of nurses are on their way to earning a bachelor’s degree in nursing from UWA.