Jazz is often traced to the Big Easy; but defining its shape is anything but easy. So when University of Alabama producer/director Dwight Cammeron set out to chronicle chart-topping, record-breaking jazz guitarist Eric Essix, he ignored the occasional boxy documentary format and instead let Essix loose with his red Gibson hollow-body.
A nationally recognized expert on evolutionary biology will kick-off the second year of a two-year series of public lectures on evolution at The University of Alabama Sept. 14. Dr. Massimo Pigliucci will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building Auditorium, room 125, on the UA campus.
The University of Alabama Libraries is sponsoring a Book Collecting Contest for UA students during September and October this fall semester.
The University of Alabama GEAR UP project has received a $38,000 grant from the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships and the AT&T Foundation to establish a portable College and Career Readiness Computer Lab for Holt High School.
William Moss, owner of Moss Enterprises Inc. and designer of the Talladega Superspeedway, will address students, faculty and staff Thursday, Sept. 14, as part of the College of Engineering’s Dean’s Leadership Series: “So, You Want to be a CEO,” which brings prominent business leaders to The University of Alabama to lecture and meet with students.
The University Stewards is a new student organization at The University of Alabama established to create personal relationships with prospective students and their parents.
Lacey Watts of Northport, a University of Alabama senior majoring in restaurant, hotel and meetings management, has been selected as UA’s student representative to attend the “Lodging Management Students to National Industry Conferences” program in Phoenix Sept. 18-21.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center and the women’s studies department in the UA College of Arts and Sciences are sponsoring the first Brown Bag lecture in the fall semester lecture series on Wednesday, Sept. 6 at 12:30 p.m. in 107 Manly Hall.
The University of Alabama Crossroads Community Center, New College, Capstone International Center, Student Government Association, Ferguson Center, Housing and Residential Communities, International Honors Program and Career Center will host Global Simulation Workshops on Friday, Sept. 22 and Saturday, Sept. 23 at the Student Recreation Center.
The University of Alabama Graduate School will conduct a Graduate School Preview Day on Thursday, Sept. 21 at 3 p.m. in the Ferguson Center on campus.