University of Alabama Coal Royalty Visiting Chair in Prose Deirdre McNamer and new UA faculty member and poet Peter Streckfus will read from their works Friday, Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa as part of the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series.
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The University of Alabama’s Celebrity Series, which brings internationally recognized artists to Alabama, proudly begins its 20th year with a performance by QuinTango on Friday, September 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the concert hall of the Moody Music Building on the UA campus.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley’s “The Miss Firecracker Contest” will open at The University of Alabama Marian Gallaway Theatre on Sept. 25.
A public symposium featuring “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion and Conflict” will be held on Friday, Sept. 28 in 205 Gorgas Library at The University of Alabama.
Ynhi Thai, a junior majoring in chemical engineering from Long Beach, Miss., was recently awarded several national scholarships, including two from the Society of Plastics Engineers and one from the National Academy for Nuclear Training. These scholarships recognize Thai’s outstanding academic achievement.
The influences of parents, peers and teachers on a child’s development will be the focus of the 2007 Orman-Harris lecture, Thursday, Sept. 27 at 2 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Child Development Research Center on The University of Alabama campus.
The Creative Campus Initiative at The University of Alabama is pleased to announce the launch of Crimson Arts Tickets. This cross-departmental venture will allow anyone the ability to reserve tickets to cultural arts events offered at UA with improved ease and availability.
The University of Alabama Graduate School will host its Graduate School Preview Day on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 3 p.m. in the Ferguson Student Center on campus.
The University of Alabama will commemorate the nation’s third Constitution Day with two films on separate days that delve into the workings of the American government and the ways in which rights are achieved. The commemoration, called Constitution Day Movies, will be both Sept.16-17 at 7 p.m. in room 208 of Gordon Palmer Hall on the UA campus.