Blount Scholars Program: Where Legends Are Made

Today!

Reminder: two days away!

Update and reminder! We finally have a time for the Homecoming game so we now have a time for the Blount Homecoming Tailgate. Don't miss out!

Mark your calendars: Blount Scholars Program and the Blount Alumni Fellows are having an Alumni Tailgate on homecoming weekend at The University of Alabama!

Saturday, October 22nd, from 2:00 - 5:30pm in Tuomey Hall!

RRSP is a great opportunity for all students of all majors!

RRSP's John Pace, Anna Kate Manchester (Fulbright Scholar), and Jackson Foster (Marshall Scholar) were honored at the UA Department of History Honors Day event. Congrats to these scholars!

UA Honors College

RRSP's John Pace is the recipient of the inaugural Winton Blount Award for Extraordinary Service (photo with Dr. Fred Whiting, Director of the Blount Scholars Program). Congratulations John!

Blount Scholars Program UA Honors College

Congratulations to the Blount Scholars Program’s TWO Marshall Scholarship Winners for 2022! Current student Jackson Foster, to study at the University of Durham, and Blount alum Nathaniel Trost, to study at Goldsmiths, University of London. news.ua.edu/2021/12/ua-stu… #WhatsUpWednesday

Congrats to Blount Senior Fellow Matthew Minicucci on his new book contract!

We can't wait to see it!

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

-Abigail Adams

How amazing are my Blount Scholars Program students? The other day we were talking about metaphor & its sheer strangeness & I mentioned oranges as something that pops up for me in poems about my grandfather.

The next class, oranges appeared (mysteriously) at everyone's seat.

Amazing

On 🤳 #MuseumSelfie Day , we'd like introduce you to Abby Andrews, who is in the Blount Scholars Program ( Blount Scholars Program ) and Alabama Museum of Natural History's chief 🐛 bug care person!

#UAMuseums #RollTide #Tuscaloosa #Alabama #MuseumSelfie

'And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most...'

Plato, THE REPUBLIC, 1.377b (trans. by Desmond Lee)

P.S. Happy first day of spring semester!

I remember reading On Human Nature and Consilience as a Blount Scholars Program student and rethinking how I viewed humanity. Farewell to a true #Alabama great, E.O. Wilson. washingtonpost.com/local/obituari… #EOWilson

Congrats to our very own Blount Scholars Jackson Foster and Nathaniel Trost on a clean sweep of Marshall Scholarships!

news.ua.edu/2021/12/ua-stu…

So excited to be taking The University of Alabama students here this summer to be a part of a 40-year tradition!

Hey #UA ! Interested? Check out our #UA inOxford program details: oxford.ua.edu.

#RollTide #BamaAbroad #ApplicationsOpen

Later this afternoon Prof. Newton (Richard Newton) is joining the Blount Scholars Program Convocation to share a bit about his research on Alex Haley’s Roots, scriptures, and identity. #RELresearch #RELteaches