Centers

Center for Sustainability

The UNA Center for Sustainability is a unique interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary organization that fosters pedagogy, research and scholarship, awareness, and development initiatives in all aspects of sustainability. The Center is inclusive of the broadest range of disciplines, and draws strength and credibility through its diversity. The Center includes learning and understanding of sustainability issues at the local, state, national and global scales and seeks their solutions. We seek to learn how to learn and make decisions in our rapidly-changing world.  The Center works with all elements of the academic and surrounding community, including students, faculty, and staff to promote an understanding and awareness of sustainability issues by coordinating informational presentations and promoting energy and water conservation, waste minimization, recycling, sustainable building and landscape design, alternative transportation, and procurement of green products.

Freddie Wood Geographic Research Center

The Center, a research, teaching and public service unit of the Department of Geoscience, has a three-fold purpose.  It enhances the instructional programs of the University, creates research opportunities for students and faculty, and extends benefits of geospatial technologies and research to potential users.

Public History Center

The Public History Center serves as the consulting branch of the Public History Program at the University of North Alabama, and supervises graduate students in their fieldwork and project development. Additionally, the Public History Center staff participates in community outreach, research, content development, and historic site strategy, and maintains a close project partnership with the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area.

Laboratories

Herbarium

The focus of the Herbarium is to maintain in the Department of Biology a complete plant collection for use by students and faculty as an instructional and research resource. It also serves as a historical record of the plant species that occur in the Southeast United States, especially Alabama. The Herbarium functions in the identification and/or verification of unknown plant material, promotes public awareness of rare and/or endangered species, and conducts environmental impact studies and floristic surveys. The Herbarium is recognized by Index Herbariorum, a database of global herbaria maintained by the New York Botanical Gardens. Go to http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ for more information.

Occupational and Environmental Health Laboratory

The OEHL provides industrial hygiene consultation and other relevant health and environmental services to local industries as a public service of the Department of Engineering and Industrial Professions. Typical services include, but are not limited to, occupational air sampling, noise sampling, heat stress analysis and ergonomic assessments.  The OEHL provides opportunities for student participation in occupational and environmental health assessments under the direction of a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) faculty member.

Program

Critical Languages Program

Under the auspices of the National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (http://www.nasilp.net), the Department of Foreign Languages offers foundational courses in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Russian utilizing native-speaker language partners in the classroom and external examiners who administer the final exams. 

Dual Degree Engineering

Certificates

Accelerated Master's Program (AMP)