“I had never been in a place before where God was everywhere,” University of Alabama student Ashley Ragsdale said of South Africa, where she recently spent 15 days as the state’s only delegate in the National Youth Leadership Forum’s International Mission on Medicine.
Professors aren’t known today for the practice of “spying” on their students during class, but a recently rediscovered historical artifact at The University of Alabama suggests that one legendary UA professor fashioned a peephole in a massive bookcase to do just that.
Historic Tuomey Hall on The University of Alabama campus will be rededicated as an Academic House in UA’s Blount Undergraduate Initiative Saturday, April 27 at noon at Tuomey Hall on UA’s main Quadrangle. The ceremony will also dedicate the new Danford-Yarbrough Library, housed within Tuomey.
The global research and technology-based company E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. Inc. made a donation of patents and intellectual property to The University of Alabama last year.
The University of Alabama National Alumni Association will present tours this summer to Sicily, Spain and Tuscany.
The University of Alabama Army ROTC will hold its annual Military Ball on Friday, April 19, at 7 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Ballroom.
Robert Ressler, considered to be this country’s foremost criminologist and the world’s leading authority on violence in contemporary society, will be speaking at The University of Alabama on Monday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Ballroom.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center will sponsor the third annual Celebrate Girls banquet on Thursday, April 25, at 6 p.m. at the University Club.
The University of Alabama and the department of modern languages and classics will host an international colloquium, “Hermes and Aphrodite in Contemporary Literature and Culture,” Thursday-Saturday, April 25-27, in the Ferguson Center.
Army ROTC Cadet Alan L. Stephens of Roanoke was recently named the George C. Marshall Award winner at The University of Alabama.