The University of Alabama’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series will host poets Ralph Angel and Bei Dao on Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall. The event is free and open to the public. In addition to the Oct. 2 reading, both Dao and Angel will lead an informal question and answer session in 301 Morgan Hall at noon on Friday, Oct. 3.
Forbes magazine recently released its rankings of M.B.A. programs placing The University of Alabama’s Manderson Graduate School of Business at 46th overall among full-time M.B.A. programs and 20th among public M.B.A. programs nationwide.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center will hold an open house on Monday, Sept. 29, from 5-7 p.m. to commemorate the beginning of its 10th year of service to the UA community.
Greek Links of The University of Alabama will host a kickoff for its third annual fund-raising campaign on Monday, Sept. 29, at 6 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Plaza.
The University of Alabama’s department of advertising and public relations will host Reed Bolton Byrum, 2003 president and CEO of the Public Relations Society of America, as part of the “Experts in PR” lecture series. The Society is the largest association of public relations executives in the United States.
The University of Alabama and Shelton State Community College will sponsor the Tuscaloosa College Day at Coleman Coliseum on the UA campus and the Tuscaloosa Career Expo on the Shelton State Martin Campus on Monday, Sept. 29, from 8 a.m.-noon.
Cytomegalovirus, commonly known as CMV, is the leading cause of hearing loss in children, as well as the leading infectious cause of brain damage in U.S. children. The University of Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa, is involved as a satellite site in a CMV vaccine trial and is looking for participants.
The University of Alabama School of Music’s first Celebrity Series concert of the 2003-04 season will be Empire Brass on Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building on the UA campus.
Native American performing artists, craftspeople, and musicians will entertain and educate visitors during the Moundville Native American Festival, Oct. 1-4, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at The University of Alabama’s Moundville Archaeological Park, 13 miles south of Tuscaloosa off state Highway 69.
A University of Alabama geographer is monitoring the water quality of Florida’s Pensacola Bay without even getting his feet wet. In fact, with some assistance from a satellite orbiting some 438 miles above the Pensacola, Fla. area, he can measure the water’s ever changing quality from his office on the UA campus.