Dr. Marilyn Cochran-Smith, editor of the Journal of Teacher Education, will present “Outputs, Outcomes, and Results: The New Orthodoxy in Teacher Education” for the 2001 James P. Curtis Distinguished Lecture Thursday, March 22 at 7 p.m.in the Rast Room of the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.
The Student Bar Association at The University of Alabama School of Law will hold its spring semester Work-A-Day on Saturday, March 3.
James Kelly, who earned his master’s degree in aerospace engineering from The University of Alabama in 1996, will pilot the Space Shuttle Discovery on its March mission to the International Space Station.
After declining for three consecutive quarters, housing affordability rebounded strongly during the final three months of 2000, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.
Nationally recognized researcher and biopharmaceutical executive Dr. John Holaday, whose company EntreMed has made national headlines with its cancer drugs designed to starve tumors by cutting off their blood supply, will return to his alma mater to present the William Darden Lecture in Biological Sciences at The University of Alabama.
“Sheep to Shawl,” March 10 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. outside and inside Smith Hall on The University of Alabama campus, will present the historic technique of weaving raw wool into refined items. Demonstrators from UA’s Museum of Natural History and the West Alabama Fiber Guild will sheer a sheep on site, prepare its fleece for spinning into yarn, and make a shawl for raffle.
Dr. Dolf Zillmann has been selected as the recipient of this year’s Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award at The University of Alabama.
With the daily doses of bad economic news and the “R” word slipping off the tongues of even the most bullish forecasters, what is in store for the housing market?
University of Alabama students will have an opportunity to meet with UA President Andrew Sorensen in an informal setting on Thursday, March 1, from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Ferguson Center food court on the UA campus.
Last Wednesday the Supreme Court balanced the rights of the disabled to be free from discrimination against the rights of states to be free from damage awards in federal discrimination suits. The states won, but contrary to predictions (including my own), the Court’s decision did not signal the end of disability discrimination suits against the government, much less the death of the disability rights movement. Instead, the Garrett case struck a balance between the need to protect states from damages liability and to allow the disabled to seek relief when states act in a discriminatory fashion. To my mind, it was an effective compromise.