The University of Alabama College of Engineering will offer a new construction engineering program, beginning this fall, to meet the growing needs of the industry. The program, approved by the UA Board of Trustees today, will begin accepting students for August 2006.
The University of Alabama will celebrate the 175th anniversary of its founding at a Founder’s Day Program and birthday party Wednesday, April 12 at 3:30 p.m. on the UA Quad in front of Gorgas Library. The public is invited.
The University of Alabama honored its top students of 2005-2006 for their academic achievement and leadership Friday, April 7 during the Tappings and Awards Ceremony, the highlight of UA’s annual Honors Week, April 3-7.
Two students at The University of Alabama have received one of the country’s most elite academic scholarships.
Three Treatments of the German Chorale Tune “Schmücke dich, O Liebe Seele,” and “Relationships with Algae: Sweethearts, Swingers, or Cheaters?” are just two examples from The University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences’ upcoming Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Oral or Poster Presentation Competition.
Ashley Oates, an adjunct faculty member in the department of art and an instructor for the Blount Undergraduate Initiative at The University of Alabama, will give a lecture titled “Exploring the Role of the Female Body through Contemporary Art” Thursday, April 6 at 4 p.m., ten Hoor room 30.
After a slow start in January the housing market in Alabama improved in February, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
The faculty and staff of The University of Alabama have made a major commitment to the University’s future by pledging $5 million in support of University initiatives. Included in the total is a $300,000 gift from UA President Robert E. Witt.
The University of Alabama journalism department is recruiting high school students to attend its 23rd annual Multicultural Journalism Workshop this summer.
Anthropologist Dr. Jeffrey H. Schwartz will speak on “Toward resolving almost 150 years of the Darwinism-Evo-Devo debate: the difference between the emergence and persistence of novelty” at The University of Alabama April 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building Auditorium (room 127).