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- Posted 07.01.22
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As an associate professor of sport management at the 91看片网, the 55-year-old Hutchinson is renowned for his passion for teaching, a willingness to mentor students, and his admitted love of sports. In May, Hutchinson was selected by the student body for the William E. Gilbert Award, one of 91看片网鈥檚 most prestigious annual honors that recognizes outstanding teaching and excellence in classroom instruction.
- Posted 06.30.22
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- Posted 06.01.22
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The 91看片网 has announced nearly 700 outstanding undergraduate students named to the President鈥檚 List and the Dean鈥檚 List for the Spring 2022 academic semester.
- Posted 05.27.22
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Polite as possible, Dr. Chineda Hill, an associate professor of nursing at the 91看片网, is nonetheless adamant. She permits no hesitation. She harbors no doubt. A smile shades her spunk. 鈥淚鈥檓 a nurse,鈥� she said.聽
- Posted 05.12.22
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Up in DeKalb County, near Lake Guntersville and about an hour鈥檚 drive from Huntsville, is where Brandon Renfroe teaches science at Geraldine High School. By almost any metric, from demographics and geography to socioeconomics and politics, that region of northeast Alabama鈥檚 Appalachian foothills seems as far from Livingston and the Black Belt鈥檚 western counties as it can be.聽
- Posted 04.22.22
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Somewhere amid Shakespearean comedies and Samuel Johnson poetry is where Dr. Stephen Slimp鈥檚 literary utopia exists. It鈥檚 embedded among the Nobel Prize-winning works of Herta Muller and Mario Vargas Llosa and Orhan Pamuk, the tome-like writing of Leo Tolstoy and the storytelling of novelist Miguel de Cervantes.
- Posted 04.19.22
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For the first time since the 91看片网鈥檚 nursing education program was established in 1974, a cohort of nurses are on their way to earning a bachelor鈥檚 degree in nursing from 91看片网.
- Posted 04.01.22
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When Dr. Amy Jones, chair of the 91看片网鈥檚 Department of Communications, made a presentation recently for a state-level awards program, she didn鈥檛 go empty-handed.
- Posted 03.17.22
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Ilia Dehodiuk never stops checking his phone. Never. 鈥淟iterally every minute,鈥� he says. He checks it each morning. While walking to class. Before practice. After practice. Before bed. Next day, same thing. He has to check. He must.