Congressional hearings and subsequent reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act will produce major changes in the act in 2007, predicts Dr. Stephen Katsinas, a University of Alabama education policy expert.
The automotive market will see an increase in sales of both hybrid and diesel fueled engines in 2007, with hybrid engines outselling diesels, predicts a University of Alabama engineering professor. He also predicts automotive makers, such as Ford and GM, will begin a “rebuilding season,” after years of being hurt by foreign car manufacturers.
Two of the best known presidential candidate hopefuls will drop out during the coming year, and the use of blogs will help influence the choice of the Democratic Party candidate, predicts Dr. David Lanoue, chair of The University of Alabama’s political science department.
The University of Alabama Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association have announced their executive boards for 2007.
Students in The University of Alabama School of Social Work and members of UA Mortar Board honorary are taking part in the national “Books for Africa” literacy movement and collecting textbooks to help college-age students in countries across Africa.
If the recent inaugural meeting and banquet of the reconstituted Alabama Insurance Society is any indication, the organization is back and healthy after an extended period of dormancy. In its heyday during the 1970s, the Alabama Insurance Society, known as AIS, was one of the most active student organizations on The University of Alabama campus. But with the retirement in 1988 of the legendary Dr. John Bickley, professor of finance and insurance, the emphasis of the academic program in insurance changed, and, over time, the AIS became inactive.
Dr. Alisha Malloy, assistant professor of information systems, statistics and management science in The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, has received the Southern Regional Education Board Faculty Mentor of the Year Award at the national conference that annually gathers the nation’s largest group of minority Ph.D. students, doctoral graduates and faculty mentors.
Shiny, black magnetic films, about the size of a penny and made by University of Alabama researchers, are central to a discovery of how to conduct resistance-free electricity in a manner previously thought impossible.
James I. Harrison Jr., longtime Tuscaloosa businessman and philanthropist, will be the featured speaker for The University of Alabama’s winter commencement ceremonies Saturday, Dec. 16 at 9 a.m., in Coleman Coliseum on the UA campus.