2017 Recipients | Premier Awards

Lillian Roth

William P. and Estan J. Bloom Award

Lillian uses her position as SGA president to tone down discourse over protests and issues on campus.

UA Safe Zone Resource Center

Judy Bonner Presidential Medallion Prize

The UA Safe Zone program provides a visible network of allies for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and asexual (LGBTQA+) individuals.

Chris Lancaster

Morris L. Mayer Award (student recipient)

Chris has served in the University Scholars Program, in the Culverhouse Connections Student Leadership Board and as a parent ambassador during orientation.

Dr. Katrina Ramonell

Morris L. Mayer Award (teaching faculty recipient)

Dr. Ramonell uses the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to study the complex interactions among plants and pathogens in the environment. She serves as associate chair for academics in the department of biological sciences.

Charlotte Watters

John F. Ramsey Award

Her commitment to her studies – particularly in a project involving “the fascinating and paradoxical relationships between the living and the dead, body and spirit in the middle ages” – has deeply impressed the history faculty, said Dr. James D. Mixson, associate professor of history.

Justin Magrath

Catherine J. Randall Award

Justin spent 15 to 20 hours a week exploring the use of a chemotherapy drug in combatting cancer.

Caroline Morrison

Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award (student recipient)

Caroline helped make small-business dreams come true in Perry County, Alabama, through the University Fellows program and as a loan officer and later chief investment officer for Forza Financial, a UA-student-led microfinance group.

Faulkner Hereford

Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award (student recipient)

Faulkner serves as a University Fellow and filmed a documentary detailing poverty in the Alabama Black Belt.

Dr. J Norman Baldwin

Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award (staff recipient)

His service projects at UA include acting as facilitator (chairman) for the Task Force for Excellence in Equity, Inclusion and Citizenship and founding the Tornado Disaster Relief Internship Program, which placed more than 155 students in internships and 60 more students in part-time positions helping to rebuild Tuscaloosa and serve tornado victims.