Carroll Elected SGA President at UA
Mary Margaret Carroll of Ozark was elected president of the Student Government Association at The University of Alabama for the 2005-2006 term.
UA Engineering’s Karr Wins T. Morris Hackney Faculty Leadership Award
The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently announced Dr. Charles Karr, associate dean for research and graduate studies, as the 2005 T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership award recipient.
UA Honors Five Distinguished Engineering Fellows
The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently honored five alumni and friends of the College by inducting them into its class of 2005 Distinguished Engineering Fellows.
Mancini Named UA Distinguished Research Professor
The University of Alabama Board of Trustees has conferred the highest honor it gives to a faculty member to Dr. Ernest A. Mancini, professor of geological sciences and director of the Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies, both in UA’s College of Arts and Sciences. Mancini has been named a University of Alabama Distinguished Research Professor by the board.
UA Hosts Tim Wise, Anti-Racist Writer, Wednesday, March 16
The University of Alabama Coalition for Diversity and Inclusiveness is sponsoring a lecture by Tim Wise on Wednesday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Forum.
UA’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Hosts Harryette Mullen
The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series will feature Harryette Mullen for a reading from her latest poetry at noon on March 18 in the Ferguson Center Forum on The University of Alabama campus.
UA Social Work Lecture to Focus on Baby Boomers’ Impact on Federal Budget
Dr. Bruce S. Jansson, professor of social policy at the University of Southern California and noted historian of the U.S. federal budget process, will present “From Boomers to Bust? Some Implications of Boomers’ Rising Costs for American Society in Coming Decades,” Monday, March 14 at noon in 104 Little Hall on The University of Alabama campus.
UA Alumni Association Announces 2005 Award Winners
The University of Alabama National Alumni Association (NAA) recently chose the recipients of the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Awards and Alumni Student Awards. The recipients will be recognized at the annual Alumni Weekend Luncheon on Saturday, March 19, at noon in the Bryant Conference Center.
UA Alumni Association to Host A-Day Weekend Events
The University of Alabama National Alumni Association (NAA) has announced the schedule of Alumni Weekend activities for the Class of 1955 and the Golden Fifties Club (alumni who graduated prior to 1955) to be held during the annual A-Day weekend, March 18-19.
Alice Walker, Author of ‘The Color Purple,’ to Keynote Signs of Race Symposium at UA
Internationally known author Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for “The Color Purple,” will present the opening keynote lecture for “The Signs of Race Series: Women and Others, Racial and Gender Difference in Anglo-American Literature and Culture” at The University of Alabama.