Multi-platinum rapper Wiz Khalifa will headline this year’s University of North Alabama Spring Concert set for Thursday at CB&S Bank Arena. Bluewire, winner of UNA’s Battle of the Bands, will open the show, followed by Steven G. Admission for UNA students is free, and general admission tickets are available for $35.
Lydia Uptain, a rising senior at the University of North Alabama and a biochemistry and molecular biology major from Muscle Shoals, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship from the Goldwater Excellence in Education Foundation that supports talented college sophomores and juniors who aspire to become the next generation of researchers in science, engineering, and mathematics. Lydia is also a student in the Delores and Weldon Cole Honors College.
Nominations are open for the University of North Alabama Greek Alumni Hall of Fame, Class of 2026. The process will close Friday, May 8.
Faculty, staff, and students in the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions will have Leo’s Feel Good Fest, a campus and community-wide wellness event, on Thursday, April 9, from 4-7 p.m. in Harrison Hall and Stevens Hall on the University of North Alabama campus.
The David and John Briggs Family Department of Entertainment Industry at the University of North Alabama has partnered with the Alabama Music Hall of Fame to unveil a new permanent exhibit that celebrates and honors the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed music and entertainment industry program.
Through a generous gift to the University of North Alabama, James “Jim” Spencer and his wife, Sherry, have established an endowment for UNA’s College of Education and Human Sciences to name the College the Colonel (Ret.) James and Sherry Spencer College of Education and Human Sciences.
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The Department of Entertainment Industry program at the University of North Alabama has been named among Billboard’s 2025 Top Music Business Schools in an announcement by the publication.
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