AUBURN, Alabama, Jan. 23 -- Auburn University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Maggie Nelson is Auburn University's first Churchill Scholarship recipient. Nelson, a senior from Birmingham in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, is headed to Churchill College at the University of Cambridge this fall to work toward her MPhil in materials science and metallurgy. In addition to her aerospace engineering degree from the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Nelson, an Honors   more

ENTERPRISE, Alabama, Jan. 23 -- Enterprise State Community College issued the following news: Enterprise State Community College is adding men's soccer to its ever-growing sports programs it was officially announced on Friday. After a trial run of sorts this past fall as a club sport, ESCC soccer will transition into being a sanctioned sport competing within the Alabama Community College Conference beginning next fall. Up until now, Southern Union was the only school in the ACCC that fielded   more

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Jan. 23 -- Alabama State University issued the following news: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Gates Foundation) has awarded a $100,000 learning grant to Alabama State University to implement a "Data Hub" over a six-month period that will allow it to centralize data storage and build analytic tools. The Data Hub will allow ASU to quickly run analyses, generate reports, and build digital dashboards to better understand student information and business practices, and   more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Jan. 23 -- Leidos, an information technology, engineering and science solutions and services company, issued the following news release: Leidos and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Aviation and Missile Center's (AvMC's) Advanced Multilayered Mobile Force Protection (AM2FP) team demonstrated the successful operation of its Counter - small Unmanned Aerial System (C-sUAS) at the Maneuver and Fires Integration Experiment (MFIX) 2024. The AM2FP corr  more

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, Jan. 22 -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: The Tuscaloosa County Economic Development Authority and The University of Alabama are partnering with Techstars, the most active pre-seed investor in the world, to bring first-of-its-kind, hydrologic innovation-focused accelerator and pre-accelerator programs to Tuscaloosa. Techstars WaterTech and Sustainability, an accelerator program for early-stage startups, and Founder Catalyst WaterTech and Sustainabili  more

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, Jan. 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: A faculty work group has compiled and published extensive scholarship exploring the role of slavery at The University of Alabama, telling the stories of enslaved people connected to the campus before the Civil War. This scholarly initiative launches the University's membership in a consortium of over 100 universities in the United States, Canada, Colombia, Scotland, Ireland and England engaged in educ  more

MOBILE, Alabama, Jan. 23 -- The University of South Alabama issued the following news release: Dr. Charlotte Pence, director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama, just got a new title and fresh direction for writing poems and celebrating poetry. As the first Mobile Poet Laureate, announced Monday, Jan. 22, Pence will have the opportunity to share poems and lead programs that enrich life and language in the Port City. "This position, in particular, will   more

SILVER CITY, New Mexico, Jan. 23 -- Western New Mexico University issued the following news release: WNMU is requesting $14,000,000 of capital outlay funding for Phase I of construction of a new building complex to house the New Mexico Center of Excellence in Early Childhood Education, which is dedicated to educating and training New Mexico's early childhood educators. The new facility will be built on university-owned land off of N. Alabama St., behind the St. Mary's Academy building in Silve  more