Dr. William W. Freehling, one of America’s most distinguished historians of the Old South and the era of the American Civil War, will give a public talk at The University of Alabama Wednesday, Jan. 25 at 4 p.m. in the Henry Jacobs Reading area in Gorgas Library.
Dr. Salvador Larrúa, a Cuban historian and economist, will speak on the anticipated transition in Cuba in the post-Fidel Castro period and recapturing the historical memory in Cuba, as a guest of The University of Alabama department of history, its Program in Latin American and Hispanic Studies and the Emeritus Committee on International Strategic Studies.
Dr. Todd Savitt, medical historian and ethicist, and Dr. Clifton Meador, medical reformer and bestselling author, will be the featured presenters at the fourth annual Susan and Gaylon McCollough Medical Scholars Forum Feb. 3-4 on The University of Alabama campus.
U.S. Rep. Artur G. Davis recently spoke to a group of University of Alabama students enrolled in a New College seminar course that examined the current and future state of democracy in the United States and around the world.
The third in a series of public lectures on evolution will continue at The University of Alabama with paleontologist Dr. Patricia Kelley. Kelley will speak on “Evolution and creation: conflicting or compatible?” on Jan.19 at 7:30 p.m. in 127 Biology Building Auditorium on the UA campus.
The University of Alabama Disability Sports program will expand its wheelchair sports program to include a men’s collegiate wheelchair basketball team in the fall of 2006.
The University of Alabama Women’s Wheelchair Basketball team will host the University of Illinois team in the Alabama Wheelchair Basketball Classic on Thursday, Jan. 12, in the UA Student Recreation Center.
Blackburn Fellows at The University of Alabama are visiting the Shoals area to examine “Entrepreneurs and Creative Partners for Progressive Solutions” as part of the Burt Jones Community Travel Experience, through Jan. 10.
The Tuscaloosa Fire and Rescue Service will hold a simulated disaster drill Tuesday, Jan. 10 in and around Bryant-Denny Stadium.
The world has a drug problem. It’s not limited to the one you may be thinking of, and scientists are starting to look for solutions to it in places you might not imagine – places like the surfaces of volcanoes lying almost a mile beneath the ocean’s surface.