Dr. C. Heath Turner, Reichhold-Shumaker assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at The University of Alabama, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. CAREER Awards are NSF’s most prestigious recognition of top-performing young scientists and engineers who are beginning their careers.
DATES TO REMEMBER Jan. 30 Off-Campus Housing Fair at the Ferguson Center Check Your Well-Being from 10-3 at the Ferguson Center Jan. 31 Yearbooks Sales at Lakeside Dining from 4-7 Feb. 1 All Honor Society Applications Due Capstone Men and Women Applications Due Student Alumni Association Applications Due Feb. 4 College Bowl at the Ferguson
Gregg Levoy, author of “Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life,” will present a workshop for students at The University of Alabama on Monday, Jan. 28 from 7-9 p.m. in the Moody Music Concert Hall on “Don’t Just Declare a Major, Follow a Calling.”
Dr. Roy F. Baumeister, Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, will deliver the lecture “Free Will as the Expensive Control of Action” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1 in room 208 in The University of Alabama’s Gordon Palmer Hall.
A total of 4,949 students enrolled during the fall 2007 semester at The University of Alabama made the Dean’s List with academic records of 3.5 or above (on a 4.0 scale), or the President’s List with academic records of 4.0 (all As).
Synovus Foundation of Columbus, Ga., has made a gift to The University of Alabama to endow a debate program known as the Moral Forum and name it in honor of UA alumnus and long-time supporter James P. “Jim” Hayes Jr.
University of Alabama researchers have identified five genes within animal models displaying protective capabilities against a hallmark trait of Parkinson’s disease.
David M. Shribman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will be on The University of Alabama campus to discuss “The New Architecture of Journalism” Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 6 p.m. in 205 Amelia Gorgas Library.
Dr. Ted Sider, professor of philosophy at New York University, will be the next speaker in the “Philosophy Today” series of public lectures at The University of Alabama.
A select group of students at The University of Alabama, who are all “number one” in their families, were recognized as this year’s UA Coca-Cola First Generation Scholars at a luncheon held in their honor on campus this week.