Dr. Kurtis Schaeffer, an assistant professor of Asian religious studies at The University of Alabama and a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, recently was chosen as one of 15 recipients in the inaugural national competition for the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship.
Sixteen members of The University of Alabama chapter of Sigma Tau Delta recently participated in the 2002 Convention of the International English Honor Society in Boise, Idaho.
Friday, May 17, 2002, Coleman Coliseum
Dr. Beth Bennett, associate professor of communication studies in The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences (C&IS), recently received the C&IS Board of Visitors Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr. J. Barry Mason, dean of the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at The University of Alabama since 1988, has been named interim president of the University. His appointment, unanimously approved today by the UA Board of Trustees, is effective with the departure of President Andrew Sorensen, who will leave shortly to become president of The University of South Carolina.
Christopher Dean Bottoms, a University of Alabama senior double majoring in dance and pre-dental biology, will showcase a dance he choreographed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 2002.
The Alabama housing market is on track for another record setting year if the March 2002 sales pace is an accurate barometer.
A University of Alabama professor has been awarded a prestigious Sabbatical Fellowship by the American Philosophical Society, the oldest society in the United States devoted to the advancement of scientific and scholarly inquiry.
Mary Jo Modica, horticulturist at The University of Alabama Arboretum, recently received the Blanche Dean Award, honoring Alabama’s outstanding nature educator of the year, given by the Alabama Environmental Council.
Dr. Joe Phelps, professor of advertising and public relations at The University of Alabama, is the 2003 president-elect of the American Academy of Advertising (AAA).