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The UAH Honors College will host the 2015 Alabama Scholastic Competition Association (ASCA) District High School Scholars Bowl on Friday, Feb. 13. This is the third consecutive year UAH has hosted the scholastic event.

The competition begins at 8 a.m., in the Chan Auditorium of the Business Administration Building. North Alabama high school teams composed of ninth through 12th grade students from North Alabama have signed up to compete in the scholastic competition. The purpose of the annual contest is to encourage high school students to compete academically with other schools in the state.

Tierney L. Malone, a nationally recognized visual artist, historian, poet and jazz DJ will visit UAH in February in celebration of Black History Month.

Malone's visit and university events are sponsored by the UAH Department of Art and Art History, and the Humanities Center. All events are free and open to the public.

Fourteen new tenure-track faculty members at UAH will share $127,213 in 2014-15 New Faculty Research (NFR) awards from UAH's Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development.

"We invested more UAH funds then we had originally anticipated due to the high quality of the proposals we received," says Dr. Ray Vaughn, vice president for research and economic development. "It is important for us to remember that we are investing based on our expectation of facilitating a return on that investment by our faculty. I've found the UAH faculty to be a very good investment."

Ankica Mitrovska (BA Studio Art & Art History '10) remembers skipping play time as a small girl in Macedonia to stay indoors and draw. The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) alumna is now enjoying success nationally in many art exhibitions including the WAH Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Limner Gallery, Hudson, N.Y.; Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, N.Y.; Ulrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Wichita, Kan.; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Ala., and Fiber Gallery, Wichita, Kan.

The Arts Council will kick off the second year of its 2014-2016 SPACES Sculpture Trail at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 29, with a short presentation from Allison Dillon-Jauken, Executive Director. Curves, one of the sculptures on the trail, will offer a backdrop to the event. Curves is located on the campus of UAH between Wilson Hall and the Business Administration Building.

Derek Greer knew that the middle of Holmes Avenue was not a safe place for pedestrians. But between the setting sun and encroaching darkness, his visual disability was preventing him from finding his way across. Suddenly, two strangers approached and helped him to the other side. It was a moment he wouldn't forget, even long after he graduated from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) with a degree in sociology.

Today, Greer is helping people in much the same way. He serves as a disability resource coordinator for the state of Alabama, helping individuals with disabilities obtain training, education, and employment. His office is located in the Hanceville Career Center, but he spends much of his time on the road, visiting clients in the four counties under his purview: Cullman, Blount, Morgan, and parts of Marshall. "It's a very big job," he says.

The position of disability resource coordinator is, in fact, a new one for the state. Seven were hired this year as part of the Disability Employment Initiative (DEI), a joint effort of the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration and Office of Disability Employment Policy. The initiative brings together local, state, and federal resources to improve opportunities and outcomes for those with disabilities who are unemployed, underemployed, and/or receiving social security disability benefits.

A "friendly feud" involving food choices and the high cost of gas, between Amanda Blanton, a senior at (UAH), and her boyfriend, Eddie Chong, earlier this year has turned into a unique business opportunity.

Blanton put an end to the "feud' when she developed FoodieRadar, a food-truck real-time mapping application that allows customers to be connected to their favorite restaurant on wheels. "I wanted to go downtown and look for food trucks to have lunch, and he didn't want to waste gas driving around to a location that could possibly be closed," she said.

As promised, Peace on Earth: A Gala Celebration of the Arts and Humanities proved to be this holiday season's can't-miss spectacular. Hosted by the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), the event took place at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5, at the Von Braun Center Concert Hall.

"The show was a hit with the audience and the performers alike," says Dr. David Ragsdale, Chair of the Department of Music. "We enjoyed collaborating with our community partners in the arts and bringing a unique and epic holiday event to the city of Huntsville for the second year in a row."

As a veteran of the U.S. Army, Patricia Cates has a soft spot for her comrades in arms. So when she discovered the overgrown graves of Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers at Mount Paran Cemetery in New Market, Ala., she knew she couldn't rest until the site was restored to its proper, respectful condition.

"It just cannot be lost," says Cates, who is working toward her bachelor's degree in history at UAH. "When you walk through the cemetery, you walk back in time. It's amazing."

In the past few months, Jenna Tischler has scaled the Bua Tong "Sticky" Waterfall, bonded with elephants at a rescue and rehabilitation center, taken part in a Buddhist ritual, and taught conversational English to Thai soldiers. It's not your average fall semester, by any means. But Tischler wasn't interested in your average fall semester, which is how she ended up in Chiang Mai, Thailand, for a semester abroad.

A Madison native, Tischler knew from the moment she enrolled at UAH that she would be spending a semester in a far-off place. "I didn't have the opportunity to travel much growing up, but I wanted to experience other countries, cultures, and languages," she says. "I recognized that spending a few months abroad would be more worthwhile and affordable - both time- and money-wise - during college."