MONTEVALLO—The Student Government Association at the University of Montevallo will host Carnival for a Cure, an event to raise awareness of and money for cancer research, Friday, Oct. 17, from 4-7 p.m. on UM’s Main Quad. This event is open to the public, and everyone is invited to attend. Tanya Hoang, SGA president, said, “As […]
Jim Day-2014 University Scholar James Day, professor of history at the University of Montevallo, was named the 2014 University Scholar. This award recognizes significant contributions to scholarship and creative endeavor. Day earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering with a minor in history from the United States Military Academy. He received a master’s degree in U.S. […]
MONTEVALLO—Three Game Studies and Design students at the University of Montevallo have been recognized by Game Career Guide for creating innovative games in their most recent Game Design Challenge: “Poetry in Motion.” The goal was to design video games based on famous poems. Angel Diaz, of Bessemer, created “This Is Just To Say,” based on […]
MONTEVALLO—When the University of Montevallo holds its Founders’ Day convocation Oct. 9 at 11 a.m. in Palmer Auditorium, Mark Brandon, dean of the University of Alabama School of Law, will deliver the Founders’ Day address. Brandon, who graduated from UM in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in history, earned the juris doctor from the UA […]
On Sunday, Sept. 28, four UM Mass Communication students had the opportunity to spend the day working as reporters with Alabama’s 13 to cover the Magic City Miracle volunteer efforts throughout downtown Birmingham. Students spent the day covering various events, and then received professional feedback from Alabama’s 13 reporters as they crafted their stories for […]
UM Theatre will present God of Carnage as its opening performance of the 2014-2015 theatre season. This emotionally charged, actor-driven drama by Yasmina Reza starred James Gandolfini and Jeff Daniels on Broadway. UM’s production will take place Thursday, Oct. 2-Sunday, Oct. 5, with 7:30 p.m. performances Thursday-Saturday and a 2 p.m. matinée on Sunday. All […]
The Shelby County Drug Enforcement Task Force (SCDETF) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are sponsoring National Prescription Take Back Day this Saturday, Sept. 27, at various locations throughout Shelby County. The drug take-back day provides citizens the opportunity to properly dispose of unused, expired, or unwanted prescription or over-the-counter medications. The drop-off is […]
Network maintenance to the main data center at the University of Montevallo is being performed Saturday, September 20, and is expected to require 8–10 hours to complete. Additionally, complete testing as servers are brought back online may continue through Sunday, September 21. During this time, links from www.montevallo.edu that direct to the internal University of […]
MONTEVALLO—The University of Montevallo will welcome fiction and poetry author Chantel Acevedo to the J.A. Brown Room in Carmichael Library on the UM campus Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 3:30 p.m., to read from her works as part of the 2014-2015 BACHE Visiting Writers’ Series. Acevedo, a Cuban-American born and raised in Miami, teaches at Auburn […]
MONTEVALLO – U.S. News & World Report has released its 2015 “America’s Best Colleges” rankings, and the University of Montevallo is once again ranked as the No. 1 public master’s-level university in Alabama, a distinction it has held each year since 2008. According to the 2015 rankings, released Sept. 9, 2014, Montevallo is again listed […]
The University of Montevallo recently welcomed its new faculty. They are: • Virginia Bare, assistant professor of psychology, who earned the B.A. from Davidson College, the M.A. from Western Carolina University and the Ph.D. from The University of Alabama; • Stacy Bishop, assistant professor of kinesiology, who earned the B.S. from the University of Mary […]
MONTEVALLO–The University of Montevallo has welcomed a new registrar, Daniel Strickland, formerly assistant university registrar at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He assumed his new duties Aug. 4. Strickland holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an MBA, both from Spring Hill College in Mobile. Prior to his time at UA, Strickland had […]
MONTEVALLO—The University of Montevallo Social Work Program will host the 2014 Advocacy Day conference Friday, Sept. 26, from 8:30 a.m.-noon, in Anna Irvin Hall on the University of Montevallo campus. The focus of this conference is Ethical Treatment of Suicidal Clients: Beyond Risk Management. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Scott Ketring, acting director of […]
The University of Montevallo recently welcomed Dr. Steven J. Peters as the new dean of UM’s College of Fine Arts. Peters comes to Montevallo from Friends University, a private liberal arts college in Wichita, Kan., where he had served as dean and professor in the College of Business, Arts, Sciences and Education since 2010. Prior […]
MONTEVALLO–The University of Montevallo will host three award-winning writers during the 2014-2015 academic year. As part of the BACHE Visiting Writers’ Series, Chantel Acevedo, Tayari Jones and Brian Turner will hold readings with Q/A sessions, receptions and book signings in the J.A. Brown Room of Carmichael Library at UM. The Birmingham Consortium for Higher Education (BACHE) […]
MONTEVALLO–More than 90 students received their diplomas at summer commencement Aug. 1. The commencement address was delivered by John O. Hudson III, an attorney who serves as vice president of public relations and charitable giving at Alabama Power Company and president of the Alabama Power Foundation, one of the state’s largest corporate philanthropic organizations. Following […]
Network Outage Resolved August 14, 2014 at 7:02 a.m. The University of Montevallo IT Department has confirmed all network services have been restored by the vendor. UM apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the service interruption. UM Experiencing Network Outage August 13, 2014 at 8:25 p.m. The University of Montevallo is experiencing a network outage due to a […]
Please join us for Freshmen Move-in Day on Friday, August 22! It’s almost time once again to welcome an important group — new students and their families — to our University of Montevallo family. Moving away to college is an exciting and at times overwhelming milestone in the lives of our students and their loved […]
MONTEVALLO–For the third consecutive year, the University of Montevallo has been named a College of Distinction. Montevallo is the only public university in Alabama to receive this recognition for 2014-2015. Founded in 1999, Colleges of Distinction is a web-based guide for high school juniors and seniors seeking a school that is nationally recognized and highly […]
For the third consecutive year, the University of Montevallo has been named a College of Distinction. Montevallo is the only public university in Alabama to receive this recognition for 2014-2015. Read the full story at shelbycountyreporter.com.
