If you’re looking for a way to do your part in the war on terrorism, the new U.S. Government’s Department of Homeland Security may have an answer. The department will discuss employment opportunities with University of Alabama students during an April 2 campus visit, from 6-8 p.m., at the Four Points Sheraton.
University of Alabama football team members and Crimson Tide Head Coach Mike Price will trade their pigskin for croquet mallets as they go wicket-to-wicket with student Ambassadors from UA’s College of Arts and Sciences in the second annual College of Arts and Sciences Croquet Bowl. The event will be held Saturday, March 22, from 9-11 a.m. on Woods Quadrangle on the UA campus and will benefit the United Way of West Alabama. The event is free and open to the public.
A popular sports supplement, chromium picolinate, can damage DNA and cause lethal mutations and sterility, according to new research outlined in an article publishing in the March 18 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (paper #6646), said Dr. John Vincent, chemistry professor in The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering’s department of chemical engineering will offer an honors program specifically for chemical engineering majors beginning Fall 2003.
The University of Alabama Army ROTC will hold its annual Military Ball Friday, March 14, at 6 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Ballroom.
Staff members of The Crimson White (CW), the University of Alabama student paper, won 10 individual awards and one team award at the 17th annual Southeast Journalism Conference hosted by the University of West Florida in Pensacola in February.
Leigh Holden, MFA candidate in the Book Arts at The University of Alabama, will give a talk followed by a reception on Tuesday, March 25, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library. The library is on the second floor of Mary Harmon Bryant Hall.
The sixth annual Graduate Student Research Conference begins today and will continue through March 13 in the Ferguson Center on The University of Alabama campus.
The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series welcomes Sigrid Nunez and Aimee Bender to The University of Alabama campus in March.
Students at The University of Alabama have published their first edition of a scientific journal designed to highlight undergraduate student research at UA.