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Cuba: Reconstructing Memories , a new work by José Betancourt, associate professor of art at UAH, will be on view at the Tinney Contemporary in Nashville, Tenn., from August 1 through August 29. Betancourt will also host an opening reception for the photo exhibition from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, August 1.

Andy LeGrand ('07 BA Music) may be the successful owner of LeGrand Music Studios in Knoxville, Tenn., but he still remembers the sage advice that Phil Weaver, classical guitarist and adjunct instructor at UAH, shared with him during his days as a music student. "'You've just gotta get out there and play,' he would say. 'Just do it. Make things happen within a music scene'."

It stoked a passion LeGrand had since the age of four, growing up in Atlanta, Ga. "My father taught me my first melody on the guitar," he says. "I was in a children's choir when I was a boy." Later, he attended Pebblebrook High School, a performing arts conservatory, where he "toured heavily" with a vocal trio. It wasn't until 2004, however, that he opened his own studio in Guntersville, Ala., where he and his wife Holly had moved for her job.

B. Jeanne Fisher, the first Vice President of Student Affairs at UAH, died of a heart attack on Saturday, June 20, in Grayling, MI.

At a recent meeting on the campus of UAH, The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama approved renaming the UAH College of Liberal Arts to the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. The change becomes effective August 18, the beginning of the fall semester.

Stephanie Shelton's love affair with all things engineering began as a young girl when her grandfather showed her how to use simple tools to build random projects. When she was 12 years old, Stephanie's keen interest in how things work and the wonder of how airplanes fly and make noise turned into an obsession after her parents took her to a Blue Angels Air Show in Huntsville.

The unfiltered comedy "New Country" will make its debut at UAH before its official off-Broadway opening at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. Performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Wilson Theatre from Wednesday, April 29, to Saturday, May 2, and Wednesday, May 6, to Saturday, May 9.

Thanks to the Writer's Block, students at UAH were treated to the campus' first literary arts magazine in six years. Birmingham, Ala., native Jessica Lockett founded the student-run organization in 2013, which serves as an outlet for creative writers all over the UAH campus to meet and share their writing. Now, she says, "when people come to UAH they can see that it really is a well-rounded school."

Rare is the student who chooses two majors that combine science and the arts. Rarer still is the one who succeeds equally at both. That's why senior Erin Looney, an Honors student double majoring in history and mechanical engineering at UAH, is being recognized at next month's commencement with the Highest Academic Achievement Award from both the College of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts.

The UAH Department of Art and Art History is pleased to announce the 2015 Annual Juried Student Exhibition.

The art show will open on Wednesday, April 8, in the Wilson Hall Art Gallery, and continues through Tuesday, May 5. The UAH community is invited to attend an opening reception and awards announcements for the 2015 Juried Student Art Show from 4:30 p.m., to 6:30 p.m. More than 100 pieces selected from recent artwork will be on view in the Wilson Hall and the Louis Salmon Library galleries. The show features paintings, prints, photos and sculpture as well as design and cross disciplinary works from students at all levels.

Tasia Malakasis ('93 BA English) alumna of UAH, and president of Belle Chevre, an award-winning artisan goat cheese producer, refreshes Southern comfort food recipes in her new cookbook, Southern Made Fresh: Vibrant Dishes Rooted in Homegrown Flavor (March 2015 Oxmoor House).