The second occasional publication produced by the Bounds Law Library at The University of Alabama School of Law will be Wade Keyes’ Introductory Lecture to the Montgomery Law School: Legal Education in Mid-Nineteenth Century Alabama. The publication will be available in late August or early September to law deans, libraries, federal judges, Alabama state judges, and selected public and academic libraries.
The University of Alabama awarded some 1,100 degrees at summer commencement exercises held Saturday, Aug. 11, in Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.
The days of long lines and frustrating phone calls that sometimes left students scrambling for course names, days and times, are over at The University of Alabama. Registration has gone high-tech at UA with a student-friendly Web-based system that is the first of its kind in the United States.
University of Alabama Libraries has announced its fall semester hours of operation for Bruno Business Library, Gorgas Library, McLure Education Library, and Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering.
Dr. Viola Acoff, associate professor of metallurgical and materials engineering, and Dr. Nagy El-Kaddah, professor of metallurgical and materials engineering, have had recent success in developing a model that accurately predicts how the microstructures of intermetallic compounds change when various welding parameters are used.
Editor and journalist Suzanne Wolfe, known statewide for bringing Alabama history to life for the mainstream reader through the awarding winning magazine Alabama Heritage, which she founded in 1985, will retire as editor of the magazine in August.
Alabama home sales increased slightly in June despite the nation-wide slowdown reported by the National Association of REALTORS®, according to statistics compiled by the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
For most college freshmen, the first few days on campus focus on moving into the dorm, making new friends and adjusting to new class schedules, but for 15 freshmen in The University of Alabama’s honors program, the first week of college has a different focus. These students are coming to the University a week early to begin their college careers with a community service project.
Color and black and white photos of Paige in both regular and high resolution can be found online at www.ed.gov/offices/OPA/paigeportraitoptions.html.
The National Council for Geographic Education recently chose Dr. Gerald Webster, a professor of geography at The University of Alabama, to receive its annual Distinguished Teaching Award for 2001.