Dr. Lucy Pickering, assistant professor in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) within the English department at The University of Alabama, has been awarded the 2003 Fred W. Malkemes Prize by The American Language Institute of New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
In the last 10 years, the nation has seen a surge in household recycling. Communities across the country are collecting tons of recycled material everyday. This trend led Dr. Andrew Graettinger, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at The University of Alabama, to develop a new lightweight fill made of recycled plastic bottles.
For the second consecutive summer, experts with UA’s Alabama Museum of Natural History led an archaeological expedition of the state’s first territorial capitol, Old St. Stephens in Washington County. They dug up new details about the boom town and how early Alabamians lived.
Three new atlases recently published by UA’s geography department offer an abundance of information about Alabama’s metropolitan areas as well as demographic and economic data on a county-by-county basis.
The entrepreneurship program at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration is listed as one of the Top 100 U.S. Colleges and Universities for Entrepreneurs in the April 2003 issue of Entrepreneur magazine. More than 700 entrepreneurship programs were included in the study.
An expert in Latin American military affairs and author of “The Shining Path in Peru” will give a talk at The University of Alabama on Monday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. in UA’s ten Hoor Hall, room 30.
The superintendent of education for the Tuscaloosa County School Board and the managing director of the Campaign for Alabama are among the six University of Alabama alumni that will be presented with Outstanding Alumni Awards on April 18 from UA’s College of Communication and Information Sciences during Honors Week Activities.
The University of Alabama will honor scholarship and leadership among students and faculty with annual Honors Week activities on campus April 14-18.
Alabama photographer Wayne Sides will present the lecture “Life and Works in Progress” Tuesday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 203 Garland Hall on The University of Alabama campus. The lecture will be followed by a reception in UA’s Sarah Moody Gallery of Art.
The Manderson Graduate School of Business at The University of Alabama is ranked 65th in the nation in the just-released rankings of graduate schools by U.S. News and World Report. UA is among the top 33 public universities recognized for their graduate business programs.