A nationally recognized expert on Darwinism will kick-off a two-year series of public lectures on evolution to be held at The University of Alabama Oct. 11. Dr. Michael Ruse will speak on “The Evolution-Creation Struggle” at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building auditorium, room 127, on the UA campus.
The University of Alabama Community Service Center is sponsoring a blood drive Tuesday-Wednesday, Sept. 20-21, in the Ferguson Center Plaza from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
The University of Alabama will be holding four University Days for prospective students and their families to tour the campus and meet faculty, staff and current students.
The Emerson String Quartet will perform in the Moody Music Building Concert Hall at The University of Alabama Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the UA’s School of Music Celebrity Series sponsored by the Gloria Narramore Moody Foundation.
Disaster response teams often see the atypical. Cases in point: A woman with a respiratory condition so severe she needed regular breathing treatments, yet the tubing used to provide her medicine had been used to siphon gasoline. A blind, 86-year-old New Orleans-area evacuee, with an extensive infection covering her entire lower leg, was in need of prompt medical treatment, but her primary request centered on obtaining a drag off a cigarette.
The University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies is offering students displaced by Hurricane Katrina an opportunity to continue their education through online courses at no cost.
The University of Alabama branch of Alabama Students for Constitutional Reform will host a reading of the Alabama Constitution over two days Tuesday-Wednesday, Sept. 20-21, on the steps of Reese Phifer Hall.
The University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences announces that Dr. Dennis Watson, president of the National Black Youth Leadership Conference, will address UA faculty and students in two presentations at Morgan Auditorium on Thursday, Sept. 22.
The University of Alabama will host the 2005 annual meeting of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 16-17.
Red Diamond Inc, one of the three oldest coffee and tea companies in the nation, has announced that they will fund two premier scholarships for students majoring in restaurant and hospitality management in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at The University of Alabama.