Dr. Madeleine Gregg, an associate professor in the College of Education, became concerned by the lack of information regarding effective teaching of geography education. So last summer at the National Council for Geographic Education conference, Gregg launched a national initiative addressing the need for more research.
Housing affordability in Alabama fell for the second consecutive quarter in 2002, according to numbers released by the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
Alabamians are, or at least claim to be, a Christian people. Today over 90% of our population practices Christianity in some form. This means that the vast majority of Alabamians believe that Judeo-Christian values found in the Bible should be a moral compass to guide their lives. However, in one glaring case Alabamians have strayed far from the direction that God’s moral compass provides. When one examines the suffering and hardship Alabama’s tax structure inflicts on the poorest and neediest among us, one cannot fail to see the enormous gap that exists between what God’s moral values demand and what we have allowed our state to become. The time has come for those of us who have allowed this to happen to acknowledge it (painful as that will be), and then use the gifts, powers and opportunities that God has blessed us with to set things right.
Representatives of the insurance industry from around the globe will gather at NorthRiver Yacht Club in Tuscaloosa on Thursday, Sept. 5, to participate in a black-tie dinner and other activities announcing the establishment of the John S. and Mary Louise Loftis Bickley Endowed Teaching Chair in Insurance and Financial Services at The University of Alabama.
University of Alabama graduate and 2nd Lt. Christopher Chaney, a platoon leader with the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment serving in Afghanistan, recently presented an American Flag flown over the Regimental Headquarters in Afghanistan to Lt. Col. Neil C. Reinwald Jr., UA professor of military science and commander of UA Army Battalion ROTC.
H. Thomas Wells Jr., partner and a founding member of the Birmingham law firm Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., became chair of the American Bar Association House of Delegates on Aug. 13 at the organization’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
In October 2001, a group of University of Alabama students came together to produce an independent and volunteer-based talk/variety show called “SpeakEasy.”
The University of Alabama College of Engineering will host Engineering Day (E-Day), an open house for junior high, high school and community college students and their families, on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m.
The University of Alabama has received a bequest of $1.9 million from the estate of long-time Tuscaloosa civic leader James Maxwell Brown, UA Interim President Barry Mason announced today.
A medical ethics expert who has written a best-selling book on cloning and who has testified before the U.S. Congress on the issue will present a talk to students in The University of Alabama’s Blount Undergraduate Initiative at 4 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 26 in ten Hoor Hall, room 30.