Students at The University of Alabama will have an opportunity early in the academic year to get acquainted with new friends and get connected to the Tuscaloosa community through the “Hooking Up With the Tide” program.
Frequent headache sufferers may participate in a University of Alabama study of techniques designed to help people reduce and manage their headache pain.
Entering students at The University of Alabama will have the opportunity to commemorate the beginning of their academic careers during the inaugural Capstone Convocation on the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 19.
During August Mars will be closer to Earth than it has been in 60,000 years. Throughout the month the planet will be fairly easy to find as Mars appears red or orange as it rises in the night sky. On Aug. 27, Mars and Earth will pass each other with just 34.65 million miles separating them.
The University of Alabama’s School of Music is proud to announce its Celebrity Series concert schedule for 2003-04. This season’s three offerings of Empire Brass, pianist Olga Kern – sponsored by the Gloria Narramore Moody Foundation – and Kronos Quartet will offer a variety of styles to delight audiences.
Dr. Frank Andrasik, senior research scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and professor of psychology at the University of West Florida, will be the guest speaker for the annual Michael Dinoff Memorial Lecture at The University of Alabama on Friday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in 208 Gordon Palmer Hall.
The University of Alabama National Alumni Association travel program, Alumni Campus Abroad, is sponsoring Alumni College trips to Ireland and St. Petersburg, Russia, this fall.
Kerry L. Kennedy, executive vice chancellor for business affairs for the University of Texas System Administration, has been named vice president for financial affairs and treasurer at The University of Alabama.
Speaking today at The University of Alabama summer commencement exercises, Thomas C. Hubbard, U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Korea, told graduates the diplomatic efforts under way in the Korean Peninsula are critical to America’s war on terrorism.
Auditing is much in the news these days, with Enron, WorldCom and other corporate scandals dominating the business pages. But auditing almost literally came with the founding of the country, according to research done by Dr. William Samson, Roddy-Garner Professor of Accounting in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration and former president of the The Academy of Accounting Historians.