Category: Spotlight

Crossroad Community Center’s Lane McLelland was honored at the Second Annual National Dialogue Awards on October 9th, 2015  at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Presented by the Sustained Dialogue Institute, the National Dialogue Awards honors those whose lives have been powerfully marked by the principles and values of the organization. The mission of the Sustained Dialogue Institute is to help people to transform conflictual…

A Chinese New Year party to celebrate the Year of the Rooster at the UA Ferguson Center on January 29 drew more than 400 attendees from Chinese and local families and University faculty and staff. The event was co-sponsored by the Chinese Sisterhood of Tuscaloosa, the UA Division of Community Affairs and two of its…

Breanna Swims, right, UA alumna and recipient of a Sustained Dialogue Institute National Dialogue Award for 2016, poses with mentor and nominator Lane McLelland, directory of the Crossroads Community Center at UA and a former National Dialogue Award winer, at the 3rd Annual National Dialogue Awards ceremony, which was held Nov. 17 at the National…

Photos by Jianlong Yang | CCBP Student Members of the University community joined the College of Continuing Studies (CCS), host of the 2016 United Way campaign, on Thursday, Oct. 6 for a Campaign Kickoff event at the Ferguson Center Plaza on campus. This year’s goal is a record $365,000 — a $20,000 increase from the…

UA Recognized as a Top Producing Institution in Student Fulbright Awards Competition TUSCALOOSA – The University of Alabama has been recognized as a top producing institution for student Fulbright awards, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Eleven of 30 UA applicants received the award during 2015–2016, one of the highest success ratios in the…

Two university graduate students have begun a collaboration designed to change the stereotype of science and engineering as a career for white males only. While doing so, they also seek to educate the community about different cultures. Fan Yang, a native of China, is a graduate student working in UA’s Crossroads Community Center. She is…

Attorney Bryan Stevenson Chosen as 2015–2016 Realizing the Dream Distinguished Lecturer TUSCALOOSA — Attorney and author Bryan Stevenson will deliver the 2015-2016 Realizing the Dream Distinguished Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at the Embassy Suites Hotel. This year’s program, which is hosted by Stillman College and begins at 7 p.m., is open to the public.Stevenson,…