The University of Alabama Center for Materials for Information Technology, commonly known as MINT, has received a major award from the National Science Foundation. The $6 million award will be distributed during the next six years and is to fund a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.
University of Alabama officials will announce major funding to the University at a ceremony set for Thursday, Nov. 7, at 10 a.m. in room 101 of the Tom Bevill Energy, Mineral and Materials Science Research Building.
Dr. Virginia Wimberley, assistant professor of clothing, textiles and interior design in The University of Alabama College of Human Environmental Sciences, has analyzed textiles from Native American burial grounds and recently presented her research at the Midwest Archaeological Conference in Virginia.
University of Alabama graduate, Becky Blair, was named president of Sigrid Olsen women’s clothing company in New York this summer.
Although there was earlier much dispute over whether, when and how President Bush knew about the September 11 attacks on America, Dr. Walter Enders, professor of economics and Lee Bidgood Chair of Economics and Finance in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, had his own theories well more than a year prior to that fateful day.
The University of Alabama Career Center is hosting UA-RED (Recruitment of Educators) Day on Wednesday, Nov. 13, in the Ferguson Center Ballroom from 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
The University of Alabama Office of Community Service and Volunteerism will co-sponsor the Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter’s Homeless Animal Jamboree on Sunday, Nov. 10, from noon-5 p.m. on the UA Quad.
University of Alabama students will have an opportunity to meet with UA interim President Barry Mason in an informal setting on Wednesday, Nov. 6, from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Ferguson Center food court on the UA campus.
University of Alabama students from the College of Communication and Information Sciences recently received top honors in the Birmingham Advertising Federation Scholarship Contest.
University of Alabama music professor Dr. Ken Ozzello, has been appointed director of the UA Million Dollar Band. Ozzello will succeed Kathryn Scott, who will step down from that position Jan. 8, 2003 after 19 years as director and 8 years as assistant director.