Kenneth Feinberg, one of the nation’s leading experts in mediation and alternative dispute resolution and Special Master of the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund, will visit The University of Alabama School of Law on Thursday, April 8, at 11 a.m. as a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer to discuss “9/11 Victim Compensation: Private Pain and Public Compensation.”
The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently announced Warren Ross as the 2004 recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Volunteer Award.
Where do the Mother Teresas and Nelson Mandelas of the world come from, and how can we promote more leaders like them? That will be the focus of the 2004 James P. Curtis Distinguished Lecture, to be presented by Dr. Joseph Renzulli, director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, on Monday, April 5 at 7 p.m. in the Rast Room of the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.
The University of Alabama Student Support Services, (SSS) has opened a new branch office on the first floor of the Ferguson Center.
A fund drive in memory of Dr. Bailey Thomson, a University of Alabama journalism professor who died in November, has reached the level needed to endow a scholarship at the University, Dr. Culpepper Clark, dean of the UA College of Communication and Information Sciences, announced Friday.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently announced Dr. John Wiest, associate professor of chemical engineering, as the 2004 T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership Award recipient.
The University of Alabama Coalition for Diversity and Inclusiveness is sponsoring the lecture and discussion series “Opening Doors, Embracing Race” based on the theme “Remembrance, Forgiveness and Reconciliation.”
Dr. Robert W. Ingram, director of the nationally ranked Culverhouse School of Accountancy at The University of Alabama, has been named senior associate dean of UA’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.
Only about two-thirds of the children in Alabama under age 18 live in the traditional married-couple household, according to Annette Watters, manager of the State Data Center at The University of Alabama.
A University of Alabama psychologist whose intervention program for children with aggressive behaviors has been published in three languages is working with dozens of elementary schools to further gauge the program’s effectiveness in reducing the risks of future substance abuse by children.