The Student Bar Association (SBA) of The University of Alabama School of Law will officially dedicate a new flagpole at the school Friday, March 21, at 3 p.m.
The University of Alabama Graduate School has announced the recipients of the 2003 Outstanding Graduate Student awards to be presented during UA Honors Week, scheduled for April 14-18. The award categories are Outstanding Dissertation, Outstanding Thesis, Outstanding Teaching by a Master’s Student, Outstanding Teaching by a Doctoral Student, Outstanding Research by a Master’s Student, and Outstanding Research by a Doctoral Student.
A new University of Alabama outpatient clinic, designed to help senior citizens with their mental health needs, will kickoff with a free memory clinic Friday, March 21.
Dr. Vincent Mor, head of the community health department at Brown University, will speak about the current disparities in quality of nursing home care, Monday, March 24, at noon in 104 Little Hall on The University of Alabama campus.
Irish storyteller Bartholomew “Batt” Burns will present the 2003 James P. Curtis Distinguished Lecture at The University of Alabama on Tuesday, March 25, at 7 p.m. in the ballroom of the Sheraton Four Points Hotel ballroom. His topic will be “Ireland’s Oral Tradition as a Dynamic Teaching Tool.”
A visiting professor of history at the Naval War College will give a talk about the United States’ involvement in Vietnam at The University of Alabama on Tuesday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. in UA’s ten Hoor Hall.
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.