The University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies recently presented the 17th annual Award for Teaching Excellence to Dr. Raymond L. Guffin Jr., Stillman College professor, and Dr. Linda Olivet, UA Capstone College of Nursing professor emeritus.
The University of Alabama Model United Nations (ALMUN), a collegiate representation of the United Nations, will hold its 2002 conference on campus Oct. 10-12. The annual event allows students to participate in the simulation of U.N. committees.
The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences will host Ofield Dukes on Tuesday, Oct. 1 as part of their Public Relations Distinguished Lecture Series.
The University of Alabama student newspaper, the Crimson White (CW), has been named one of 11 finalists for the Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper Pacemaker award, which will be announced in November.
The University of Alabama McNair Scholars Program will present its third annual Research Conference on Tuesday, Oct. 1, from 4-6 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Mortar Board Room.
The University of Alabama’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series will host authors Michelle Richmond and Lynn Pruett on Oct. 3, 2002 at 7:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall.
University of Alabama faculty and staff will join forces to welcome family members of UA students to campus Sept. 27-29 for the third annual Family Weekend.
The annual Retailing Day program, co-sponsored by The University of Alabama and the Alabama Retail Association, will open with a session on “Leadership, Ethics and Social Responsibility in Retailing,” presented by Andy Wilson, chief operating officer of Soderquist Center for Leadership and Ethics.
The University of Alabama Graduate School recently awarded 2002-2003 fellowships to six new graduate students through multiple programs designed to increase and retain the number of minorities in university faculty positions.
Dr. Amy Ward, a professor of biological sciences at The University of Alabama who is leading a program that’s becoming a national model for how to train future scientists, is the winner of the University’s Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award. She will be honored in a ceremony at the UA President’s Mansion at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 29.