Claude A. Allen, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will provide a special keynote address at the fifth annual Rural Health Conference April 28-30 at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama Campus.
University Libraries announce the opening of the Lillie Florence Jones Sanford Media Resource and Design Center, located on the second floor of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library.
Dr. Marianne R. Woods has been named associate vice president for research at The University of Alabama. The appointment is effective today.
University of Alabama Libraries will hold an open book reading and discussion on Thursday, April 22, at 4 p.m. on the second floor of Gorgas Library featuring Dr. Philip Beidler, UA professor of English.
University of Alabama Men Against Violence are sponsoring a showing of the film “Wrestling with Manhood” on Tuesday, April 20, at 6:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Forum. Admission is free, and the public is invited to attend.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center is hosting a number of events this month. All of the events are free and open to the public.
The University of Alabama honored its top students of 2003-2004 for their academic achievement and leadership Friday, April 16, during the Tappings and Awards Ceremony on the Mound, the highlight of UA’s annual Honors Week, April 12-16.
Although nearly half of all the recorded extinctions of animal species during the past 500 years are nonmarine mollusks, such as freshwater clams and snails, their decline is largely ignored by the public and even most biologists, according to an article co-authored by a University of Alabama biologist and published in the latest issue of BioScience.
A Johns Hopkins history professor conducting research in race, sex and the Civil Rights movement will give a talk at The University of Alabama at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 19.
The University of Alabama academic community is taking several steps to more formally recognize the African-American history of its campus and by the fall 2004 semester will establish an administrative unit focusing on diversity and inclusiveness issues, UA President Robert E. Witt announced today.