Elliot Gerson, American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, will be on The University of Alabama campus Monday, Oct. 18, to meet with University officials and students to discuss opportunities in the Rhodes Scholars Program.
Enrollment at The University of Alabama is at an all-time high of 20,969 students this fall, with both the entering freshman class and new graduate students representing some of the largest and best qualified classes in UA history.
The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series opens its 2004-05 season with a reading by UA alumni Kevin Bath, Amy Benson, Cathy Day and Valerie Vogrin at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 in Room 205 of Smith Hall on The University of Alabama campus.
Editorial cartoonists, editors and University of Alabama experts on editorial cartoons will speak at a symposium titled “Cutting Edge Art: Inside the World of Political Cartoons” Tuesday, Oct. 19 from 5-7 p.m. at the Alabama Museum of Natural History on the UA campus.
Talented University of Alabama students have a chance to audition to be mtvU’s new video jockey (VJ) by participating in the 2004 mtvU Road Trip Tour on the UA campus Friday, Oct. 15.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers recently awarded scholarships to three mechanical engineering students at The University of Alabama.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently received the Increasing Diversity in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering grant from the National Science Foundation.
The University of Alabama chapter of the National Pan-Hellenic Council is sponsoring the Annual Homecoming Step Show Friday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. at the UA Recreation Center.
The ninth annual “Making it in the Media Job Fair,” one of the longest-running campus job fairs for the communications industries, is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 28 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Ballroom on The University of Alabama campus.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series will host Dr. Christian Davenport, associate professor of political science at the University of Maryland-College Park, for events at The University of Alabama and Stillman College on Oct. 28.