A University of Alabama student honors organization is fighting illiteracy with The Great Alabama Reading Race March 29 at 9 a.m., beginning outside the Gorgas Library on the UA campus. Proceeds generated from the 5K race will be used to purchase summer reading books for students at Tuscaloosa’s Westlawn Middle School.
Robert A. Wright, vice president for financial affairs and treasurer at The University of Alabama, has announced his plans to retire June 30, 2003.
A panel discussion on business ethics, scheduled for March 24 at The University of Alabama, will include the current SEC investigation of HealthSouth Corp.
Dr. Heather White, English professor in The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences, has won the Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism for her essay “Elizabeth Bishop’s Calling.”
Statistics show that there are disparities between breast and cervical cancer deaths for African-American and white women. Why?
The University of Alabama’s astronomy department will hold a free public sky viewing of nebulae, star clusters and galaxies at UA’s Moundville Archaeological Park on Friday, March 28 from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m.
The University of Alabama’s Religion in Culture/Aronov Speakers Series Lecture will host Dr. Mark McCormick, assistant professor of Old Testament from Stillman College, on Monday, March 31 at 7 p.m. in Smith Hall, room 205.
On Monday, March 24, Dr. George Welling, professor of humanities computing at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, will give two talks at The University of Alabama. Both lectures are free and open to the public.
More than 320 journalism students and advisers from high schools across the state were on The University of Alabama campus March 7-8 for the annual convention of the Alabama Scholastic Press Association (ASPA).
The University of Alabama Career Center will sponsor the Spring 2003 UA-RED (Recruitment of Educators Day) Wednesday, April 2, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The event will be held in the Ferguson Ballroom on the UA campus and is free and open to the public.