It’s a perennial question when everyone returns to the UA campus each fall: What did you do during the summer?  For AMS major Kathryn Haynes, her primary focus this summer was recording her debut record, a five-song EP titled This is Right Where.  A senior from Memphis, Tennessee, Haynes composed all of the songs herself and did the recording across a marathon five-day session in Nashville.  She thanks Michael Parsons for recording her demos, along with Andrew Isbell and Andrew Van […]

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UA’s Capstone Alliance and the LGBTQ Alumni Association have awarded Jeff the Elliot Jackson Jones Memorial Endowed Scholarship, which recognizes a UA student, at any level, who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to LGBTQ activism and improving the campus climate for diversity.  Jeff also received the Service Leadership Endowed Scholarship from UA’s Women and Gender Resource Center in recognition of their service and leadership in campus activism for gender equity and diversity.  They have maintained these commitments to improving campus life […]

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These awards also were included in the College of Arts & Sciences’ recent Honors Day event on April 8. Lucy Barrow of Gulf Breeze, Florida is this year’s recipient of the Louise B. Tate Memorial Endowed Scholarship.  Lucy will continue toward completion of her M.A. degree in American Studies this fall through UA’s Accelerated Masters Program. Caroline Keating of Lexington, Kentucky is this year’s recipient of the Olecia Robbin White Memorial Scholarship.  Caroline will begin law school at the University […]

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