James J. Padilla, president and chief operating officer of Ford Motor Co. and a member of the company’s board of directors, will deliver the keynote address at the 2005 Alabama Business Hall of Fame induction ceremony Thursday, Oct. 6. The black-tie dinner and induction ceremony will be held at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The University of Alabama will open the Crossroads Community Center this fall to assist student organizations with multicultural issues and facilitate coordination of multicultural issues on campus.
Hispanic workers and their families are invited to the Hispanic Family Safety and Health Fair, la Feria Familiar Hispana de Seguridad y Salud, Saturday, Aug. 13, from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in the Pelham Civic Complex.
The Alabama Housing Affordability Index for the second quarter was 165.7, down 7.7 percentage points from the first quarter of the year when the HAI was 179.5. The sharp rise in home prices over the last few years coupled with a slight increase in interest rates during the second quarter is predictably having a depressing effect on housing affordability in the state. The statewide average selling price increased by a whopping 8.0 percent from the first quarter to $130,030. The average effective mortgage interest rate increased three basis points to 5.82 percent in the second quarter, according to the Federal Housing Finance Board.
Existing home sales in Alabama set a record in June with 5,905 units sold, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
Brenda O’Neal and Leigh McKenzie, both teachers in the Eufaula City School System, spent their summer at The University of Alabama conducting nanoscience research as part of a summer research program funded by the National Science Foundation through the UA Center for Materials for Information Technology.
Dr. Joshua Rothman, assistant professor of history at The University of Alabama, will hold a fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society for the spring 2006 semester.
University of Alabama senior Anna Ruth Williams was elected national programs director for College Democrats of America at a convention held this summer by the organization in Washington, D.C.
For the football fans who prefer to soak up the air conditioning on game days, lectures on today’s hottest research topics, as presented by some of UA’s top faculty experts, will be given in The University of Alabama Bryant Conference Center this football season.
Safely home! How sweet those words are!