The University of Alabama School of Law’s Pension Counseling Clinic and the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration branch of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Atlanta’s Regional Office will provide free pension counseling in Atlanta on Saturday, Sept. 22.
The College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama will hold its sixth annual “Making it in the Media” job fair on Friday, Oct.12, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the Ferguson Center on the UA campus.
Adults with Type II diabetes are invited to join a support group that is meeting Friday, Sept. 14, from noon-1 p.m. at the Capstone Medical Center carrel room on The University of Alabama campus.
Dr. Hiroshi Honda will be speaking to community leaders and students at The University of Alabama on the topic of “Managing Cultural Differences Between East and West” on Friday, Sept. 14, at 3 p.m. in Maxwell Hall.
The University of Alabama is named one of the top 50 public universities in the nation in the newly-released U.S. News & World Report rankings for 2002.
A Brown University history professor will give a talk entitled “The Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education” on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in 125 ten Hoor Hall, on The University of Alabama campus.
Elizabeth Barry Johnson, 1990 University of Alabama School of Law graduate, received a 2001 American Bar Association Pro Bono Publico Award during the ABA Annual Meeting on Aug. 6 in Chicago.
Although not exactly a typical class project, a University of Alabama student and professor recently studied the reliability of dogs trained to sniff out dead bodies.
Novelist Kwame Dawes will read from his poetry work on Thursday, Sept. 13, at 7:30 p.m., in 205 Smith Hall, as part of this year’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series at The University of Alabama. The event is free and open to the public.
Revised estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau rank Alabama 7th in the nation for the number of children living in poverty.