Think there’s life on other planets? The University of Alabama’s astronomy department will give viewers a chance to decide for themselves during a free public sky viewing of Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn on Friday, April 18 at 8 p.m.
Dr. William Keel, professor of astronomy in The University of Alabama’s department of physics and astronomy, recently published a book “The Road to Galaxy Formation,” that will be of use to those who love to look at the stars, as well as undergraduate and beginning graduate students.
University of Alabama students will have an opportunity to bring their questions, suggestions and concerns to new UA President Robert E. Witt at an “open hours” session Wednesday, April 16, from 11 a.m. until noon in the Ferguson Center food court.
The Alabama Museum of Natural History at The University of Alabama will host a free reception and talk on the unsolved artifact heist of nearly 270 Native American vessels, Tuesday, April 22, at 5 p.m. in room 205 Smith Hall, located on 6th Avenue of the UA campus.
University of Alabama College of Engineering graduate student Shunta Garrett, of Springville, recently received the Alcoa Foundation Scholars grant.
University of Alabama College of Engineering senior Rob Davis has been selected to participate in this summer’s NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
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.