Between June 2017 and April 2018, the Water|Ways exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service was on display in six Alabama Cities – Eufaula, Decatur, Alexander City, Spanish Fort, Jasper and Selma. As the exhibit moved from city to city, the University of Alabama Center for Public Television and Radio recorded oral histories from individuals identified by the local coordinators in each city. SHOW ME NOW
The University of Alabama established Premier Awards to recognize UA students, faculty, and staff who exemplify the highest standards of scholarship, service, leadership, and character. The Sullivan Award is the oldest of the Premier Awards first awarded to UA students in 1928. The most recently endowed Premier Award, the Judy Bonner Presidential Medallion, was first awarded in 2016. SHOW ME NOW
UA Junior Marissa Navarro received the 2018 Horizon Award for her efforts in founding the first campus Hispanic Latino Association for students, faculty and staff. “Our main focus is to recruit, retain and graduate Hispanic and Latino students,” Navarro said, to make sure they do not get lost on the nearly 40,000-student campus. SHOW ME NOW
The 2018 Call to Conscience Award went to UA Professor Ellen G. Spears, author of “Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town.” Spears said she received a first-hand education from civil rights leaders, many of whom were from Alabama and became an environmental researcher to bring an end to the disproportionate amount of toxic waste being dumped in minority communities.SHOW ME NOW
