MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Jan. 19 -- The Alabama Secretary of State issued the following news release on Jan. 18, 2024: Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen has signed on to an amicus brief to be filed with the United States Supreme Court in the Trump v. Anderson Supreme Court case. The brief was signed by 10 Secretaries of State from across the nation and filed with the nation's highest court Thursday, January 18, 2024. "I put my hand on the Bible and took an oath to support the Constitution of th  more

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Jan. 19 -- Alabama State University issued the following news: Alabama State University participated in an event titled "Balance Sheet Bash" that is an inaugural program sponsored by the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants (ASCPA), in cooperation with ASU. The event's goal was to help uplift accounting students at Alabama's community of Historic Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) while promoting diversity and equality in accounting for ASU and other HBCU st  more

AUBURN, Alabama, Jan. 19 -- Auburn University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Mechanical engineering doctoral Azeez Adekunle Adebayo recently received the Graduate Research Scholars Program (GRSP) award through the Alabama Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ALEPSCoR), a consortium of the state's eight Ph.D. granting institutions, the Alabama Department of Commerce, the Alabama Commission on Higher Education and business leaders. Designed "to increase the  more

AUBURN, Alabama, Jan. 19 -- Auburn University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Ethan Hughes, a senior in electrical and computer engineering (ECE), was one of just 124 students across North America to receive a 2023-24 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power and Energy Society Scholarship Plus Initiative award. The initiative recognizes undergraduate ECE students with strong grade point averages with distinctive extracurricular commitments who are comm  more

AUBURN, Alabama, Jan. 18 -- Auburn University's College of Engineering issued the following news: The Passport to Your Engineering Experience Lunch and Browse offers students a one-stop-shop for exploring pathways to gain valuable engineering experience during their college career. Hosted by the Engineering Office of Career Development and Corporate Relations (CDCR), the event takes place on Wednesday, Jan. 24, from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in the Brown-Kopel Center and will feature representatives fro  more

AUBURN, Alabama, Jan. 19 -- Auburn University issued the following campus notice: The Auburn Gulf Scholars Program, a partnership between Auburn and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, is accepting applications from undergraduates from the social sciences, natural sciences, human sciences, arts, humanities, business, design, and engineering to become Gulf Scholars. Applications for the program will close Feb. 21. Students must be passionate about working in an interd  more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Jan. 19 -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: Amy and Matthew Willson's $30,000 scholarship gift to the College of Business at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) began with a love story. The couple met at UAH as two students from Tennessee: Amy from Kingsport, Matt from Chattanooga. Amy and Matt's mutual passion for video games sparked a friendship which grew into love and then marriage after graduation. Now they're helping other out-of-state s  more

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Jan. 19 -- Alabama State University issued the following news: Alabama State University's 124th Founders' Day Convocation will be held in-person on February 2 (Friday) at 10 a.m. in the ASU Dunn-Oliver Acadome. The event is free and open to the public. KEYNOTE SPEAKER The keynote speaker for the Founders' Day Convocation is Birmingham Mayor Randall L. Woodfin who entered his second term as mayor on November 23, 2021. Woodfin earned his undergraduate degree from Morehouse   more

FLORENCE, Alabama, Jan. 19 -- The University of North Alabama issued the following news release: The Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at the University of North Alabama is, once again, the largest in the State of Alabama. With 942 students enrolled from Fall 2023, it is larger than the next four-year institution by more than 100 students. "The stability of our MBA program is a testament not only to the strong faculty and dedicated staff we have, but also the reputation of UNA's  more

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Jan. 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: By Satina Richardson A vision scientist in the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry is conducting research to evaluate how changes in the retina might play a role in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. These findings could lead to non-invasive, low-cost tests and the early diagnosis of the disease, which progresses for decades before symptoms of dementia emerge. Alzheimer's disease, a   more

MOBILE, Alabama, Jan. 19 -- The University of South Alabama issued the following news release: What started out as a senior design project at the University of South Alabama has revived interest in the Society of Automotive Engineers and revved up plans to build a Formula One-style hybrid vehicle for a prestigious national competition. The goal is for the South car to compete in an SAE Formula Hybrid Competition on the "Magic Mile" of the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Nick Long, a graduate st  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 19 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined an amicus brief, led by the State of Alabama, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in NAACP v. Pennsylvania. The case involves the ability of states to enact reasonable election integrity measures, including ballot-processing rules. The Plaintiffs in this dispute sued Pennsylvania over an election law that governs the "marking and mailing" of absen  more