The University of Alabama SGA Student SPIRIT Campaign will hold its second “Swipe Week” Oct. 29-Nov. 1, giving UA students the chance to show their school spirit by swiping their ACTion cards to make small contributions to a UA scholarship fund for first-in-family college students.
The Everywoman Book Club, sponsored by The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center, will meet to discuss “Veil of Roses” by Laura Fitzgerald at noon on Thursday, Oct. 25 at the Globe Restaurant in Northport.
The University of Alabama Men’s and Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Teams will play their first games of the season in a tournament at UA Friday-Saturday, Oct. 26-27.
University of Alabama doctoral student Ed Geisweidt, in the department of English, is one of only 14 graduate students in the country to be selected to participate in the Folger Institute’s year-long Dissertation Seminar, “Researching the Archives,” at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Renowned author and science reporter Chris Mooney will present a lecture entitled “Science at High Wind Speeds: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming” on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. in 127 Biology Building Auditorium on the UA campus.
Thirty-four honored public relations leaders are authors of a unique book introduced today at the annual conference of the Public Relations Student Society of America in Philadelphia.
The University of Alabama is being nationally recognized for academic excellence and service as one of four schools named Truman Foundation Honor Institutions this year.
Dr. Stuart Rachels, associate professor of philosophy at The University of Alabama, will give the 2007 Edwards Lecture at Emory University on Thursday, Oct. 25 discussing “One Person Doesn’t Make a Difference.”
As a way to express human emotion, music can say it all without saying a word. The powerful feeling music can provide is the impetus behind a new, commissioned piece of music from The University of Alabama to honor and remember victims of the devastating tornado that slammed through Enterprise, Ala., on March 1, 2007.
The University of Alabama’s Phi Delta Theta Fraternity will host their fourth annual Chili Cook Off to benefit the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association on Thursday, Nov. 1 at 4 p.m. at their fraternity house on University Boulevard.