Five students who are members of the Sports Illustrated On Campus consultant team at The University of Alabama were recently named one of the top five teams nationally out of 150 teams.
The University of Alabama Panhellenic Association along with Healthy Campus will be hosting Body Images, a frank and open interactive program on eating disorders and self-esteem, featuring MTV’s Amaya Brecher of “Real World Hawaii” and Veronica Portillo of “Road Rules Semester at Sea.”
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center is holding several events open to the public during March.
Stephanie Horne Swindle, a 1999 mechanical engineering graduate of The University of Alabama, has been selected by the National Engineers Week Foundation as one of its top 14 candidates for the 2005 Engineers Week New Faces of Engineering campaign. National Engineers Week is celebrated Feb. 20-26.
The 19th annual Sakura (cherry blossom) Festival, a celebration of Japanese culture and friendship, is scheduled for the month of March. The festival provides an opportunity to experience Japanese culture through lectures, exhibits, demonstrations, a Haiku contest and other activities.
Pedro Mandoki, chairman of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, will serve as an executive-in-residence Monday, Feb. 28 for the College of Human Environmental Sciences’ Restaurant and Hospitality Management Program at The University of Alabama.
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, an expert on presenting the arts, will spend several days in Tuscaloosa this week discussing arts and community issues with representatives of The University of Alabama and the Tuscaloosa community.
Frank Uryasz, former NCAA “Steroid Czar” and founder and president of the National Center for Drug Free Sport, will present “Fact and Fiction: Steroids, Nutrional Supplements and the Evolution to Drug-Free Sport” Monday, Feb. 28 at 6 p.m., in 223 Little Hall on The University of Alabama campus.
The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences journalism department is recruiting high school students to attend the 22nd annual Multicultural Journalism Workshop.
Dr. Gary A. Hoover, associate professor of economics and Harrison Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow, has been named assistant dean for faculty and graduate student development at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce. Hoover will assume his new role beginning this summer.