Internationally recognized pianist Emanuel Ax will join the Alabama Symphony Orchestra March 11 at The University of Alabama to present “A Night of Brahms” at the annual Frank Moody Memorial Concert. The performance will be held at 3 p.m. in the Moody Music Building on the UA campus.
Author Ander Monson and Poet Jon Woodward will give readings Sunday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall on The University of Alabama campus, as part of the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series.
The University of Alabama will host a regional Science Olympiad competition for middle and high school students Saturday, March 3, at 9 a.m.
The University of Alabama will host a grand opening celebration for the newly-created Lakeside Media Lab Wednesday, Feb. 28 from 3 to 4 p.m., on the second floor of the Lakeside East Residential Community.
A new gift to the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library at The University of Alabama will be unveiled officially on Friday, Feb. 23 at 10:30 a.m. in the Hoole Library lobby on the second floor of Mary Harmon Bryant Hall.
With the launch of the Student Financial Success Program, The University of Alabama is one of the first campuses in the country to offer a program designed to help college students avoid problems with excess debt and learn to manage their money.
Recipients of the 2007 Premier Awards – the top individual honors for scholarship, leadership and service at The University of Alabama – were announced by UA President Robert E. Witt on Saturday, Feb. 17 at a recognition ceremony.
Existing home sales in Alabama increased in December 2006 by 223 homes, or 5.27 percent, over November, with a total of 4,457 units sold compared with November’s 4,234 units, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
Cynthia Tucker, editorial page editor for “The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,” will receive the 2007 Clarence Cason Writing Award from the journalism department at The University of Alabama Thursday, March 8 at a banquet in her honor at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel.
Dr. Pamela Doyle Tran has been named assistant dean for undergraduate studies at The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences.