UA Museum, Galleries Get Fired Up Over Clay Conference
As part of the Alabama Clay Conference 23, The University of Alabama will be hosting several notable exhibits of pottery ranging from the distant past to the here and now.
UA to Host Third Annual Hip-Hop Summit
The Ferguson Center Student Union will host the third annual Hip-Hop Summit at The University of Alabama with the theme “Changing Lives Through Hip-Hop,” beginning on Monday, Feb. 4 at noon and ending with a major event closing out the summit on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
UA Engineering Professor Earns NSF Career Award
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.
UA Student News: January 29, 2008
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
UA in the News: January 29, 2008
UA events – Faculty comment on asteroids, presidential politics and investment scams…
UA in the News: January 26-28, 2008
Coca-Cola Scholars – UA prof’s Parkinson’s research – UA faculty comment on Alabama economy, presidential politics and astronomy – and more…
UA Career Center Offers Workshops on ‘Finding a Calling’
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.”
Noted Psychologist to Give Talk on Free Will in UA’s Dinoff Memorial Lecture
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.
UA in the News: January 25, 2008
Business prof comments on spending plan – Researchers make Parkinson’s discovery – UA to launch student newsletter – Black Belt photo exhibit – Student news and more
Dean’s List Students Named at UA
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).