Academics News
- Posted 01.26.24
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R.J. Miller was back at the University of West Alabama this week, sharing real-world advice with business students for the second time since graduating from UWA sixteen years ago.
- Posted 12.21.23
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Longtime UWA business professor Dr. Uchenna Akpom was recently named director of the University鈥檚 Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in Rural Business program. The first of its kind degree program was introduced two years ago at UWA and features relevant courses that focus on critical issues as well as strategies and solutions related to rural businesses and designed to offer innovative solutions to global rural business challenges.
- Posted 12.13.23
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Brandon L. Hollis of Carrollton, Alabama, received the University of West Alabama鈥檚 top graduating student award at fall commencement exercises.
- Posted 11.27.23
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One way The University of West Alabama鈥檚 Division of Engineering and Technology ensures that they help students graduate and become better all-around employees is through expertise offered by their E&T advisory board. The board comprises 15 Alabama industry professionals, eight of whom are UWA alumni and now work for corporations like WestRock, Volkert Engineering, Two River鈥檚 Lumber, Cemex and Lavender, Inc.
- Posted 11.15.23
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As a respiratory therapist and medical educator in Birmingham, Jerry King was keenly aware of Alabama鈥檚 lingering shortage of professionals trained to care for one of patients鈥� essential needs: the ability to breathe.
- Posted 10.27.23
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An insatiable appetite for learning led first generation college student Zaria Gulley to the University of West Alabama, and a future in public health.
- Posted 10.11.23
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The University of West Alabama鈥檚 Athletic Training program has a new 鈥渇irst鈥� to brag about. Not only was UWA the first public university in the state to receive approval for both a bachelor鈥檚 program in athletic training and a master鈥檚 program鈥攂ut it can now boast a 100 percent first time pass rate for the first two Master of Athletic Training cohorts.
- Posted 10.09.23
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Imagine visiting a home in Guatemala or bartering for food in Uganda without ever leaving the country. That鈥檚 exactly what 37 UWA students had the opportunity to experience at the simulated rural Global Village and Urban slum at the campus of Southern Institute for Appropriate Technology (SIFAT) in Lineville, Alabama in September.
- Posted 10.02.23
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On any given day, conversations with Dr. Thomas Ratkovich can feature topics so unrelated yet masterly that they鈥檙e hard to absorb. They could involve the first isomorphism theorem, the best law enforcement training for active-shooter drills, the work of heralded British mathematician Andrew Wiles, the finer points of driving forklifts and snowplows, how to protect crime-scene evidence, or the definitions of topological groups and closure axioms.