Coach Dennis Franchione and the football staff at The University of Alabama will host the second annual Publix Football 101 class for women on Sunday, July 28, at the Paul W. Bryant Conference Center in Tuscaloosa.
Be creative, the boss says. That’s usually easier said than done. For most of us, creativity is a strange and ill-defined process that often results in a blank screen and a headache. But, most of the experts agree creativity can be taught, honed and enhanced. And in this day and age, creativity — thinking outside that box — is a big professional plus.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering has received an endowment of more than $8 million from the estate of Alton N. Scott. The bequest is the largest gift ever given to the College of Engineering, and the second largest estate gift in the history of the University.
The Alabama Department of Public Health announced a blue jay found dead in Tuscaloosa in the University of Alabama area, another near Greensboro in Hale County, one in Sulligent in Lamar County, one in Gardendale in Jefferson County last week, tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV). Although these are the first WNV positive birds found in Tuscaloosa, Hale, Jefferson or Lamar County this year, a total of 45 other dead birds infected with the encephalitis virus have been found throughout the state in 2002.
The University of Alabama will announce a major gift to the College of Engineering on Thursday, July 18, at 11:30 a.m., in the main lobby of the Alabama Institute for Manufacturing Excellence (AIME) building, on the UA campus.
Dr. Gary J. Mankey, associate professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Alabama, recently was awarded $500,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for research involving neutron scattering, which will contribute to the miniaturization of electronic circuits.
Pam Parsons, assistant vice president for development at The University of Alabama, is serving as president of the Rotary Club of Tuscaloosa for 2002-2003.
Could just one weekend confirm a career choice? Early data indicates it can for those UA students, mostly education majors, who volunteer as counselors at Camp ASCCA the Alabama Special Camp for Children and Adults in Jacksons Gap, Ala.
Dr. Joseph Sullivan Bolt, who served for 36 years as a professor in the department of art within the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Alabama, died Tuesday, July 9. He was 81.
The University of Alabama’s College of Continuing Studies’ Division of Environmental and Industrial Programs, in coordination with the Alabama Governor’s office, will host the Alabama Governor’s Safety and Health Conference Aug. 26-28 at the Perdido Beach Resort in Orange Beach.