Jill E. Fisch, Alpin J. Cameron professor of law and director of the Fordham Center for Corporate, Securities and Financial Law at Fordham University School of Law, will present a Meador Lecture on Fiduciaries on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 2 p.m. in the Moot Courtroom of The University of Alabama School of Law.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center, National Pan-Hellenic Council, Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council will sponsor a candlelight vigil at Denny Chimes on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 6 p.m. in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The University of Alabama will host a student-led memorial service in memory of Vivian Malone Jones, Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Ballroom. The community service is open to all who want to honor the memory, courage and accomplishments of one of our nation’s great civil rights pioneers. Jones was the University’s first African American graduate and one of two African American students to first attend the University in 1963.
As part of Capstone Creed Week at The University of Alabama, the Community Service Center is sponsoring a Habitat for Humanity Women Build project Thursday, Oct. 20, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Plaza.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will jointly present the Frank A. Nix Lecture at The University of Alabama on Friday, Oct. 21.
There are no crystal balls visible upon entering Dr. William “Bill” Butler’s University of Alabama office. Yet, theoretical predictions this physicist made in a scientific paper published in 2001 have been verified experimentally and may be key in development of the next generation of computer memory and hard drives.
Three students at UA have received the prestigious and highly competitive National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship.
Bettina Byrd-Giles has been named director of the Crossroads Community Center at The University of Alabama. The newly created position will provide campus leadership and oversight in the areas of cultural programming, diversity education and student involvement.
Jonathan Simon, professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, will present the Meador Lecture on Risk and the Law on Oct. 17 at 11 a.m. in the Moot Courtroom of The University of Alabama School of Law. The title of his lecture is “Risk and Reflexivity: What Socio-Legal Studies Adds to the Study of Risk and the Law.”
Think we’ve advanced too far in Civil Rights issues and medical care to resort to making health judgments based on skin color? Don’t be so sure, says Dr. Gregory Dorr, an assistant professor of history at The University of Alabama, who has joined scholars at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology researching so-called “designer medicines” and the possibilities they could lead to racial medicine.