The University of Alabama will join public universities throughout the state in demonstrating support for higher education at two events planned for March 5 in Montgomery, just preceding annual Higher Education Day activities on March 6.
Bart Siniard, a junior from Huntsville and member of Kappa Alpha Order, has been elected president of The University of Alabama Interfraternity Council.
Tom Patterson, founder and chairman of DAXKO, will speak with students at The University of Alabama Tuesday, Feb. 19.
Joe McInnes, director of the Alabama Department of Transportation and an alumnus of The University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences, will present a Helen Crow Mills and John Carroll Mills Lecture Feb. 29 at 1:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Morgan Hall on the UA campus.
An awards ceremony and reception will be held in the lobby of the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library on Monday, Feb.11 from 4-5 p.m. to recognize the 25th anniversary of the establishment of a Gay and Lesbian student group on The University of Alabama campus.
The Capstone International Center Japan Program at The University of Alabama will be celebrating the 22nd annual Sakura Festival March 1-31.
Winners of the seventh annual “To Kill a Mockingbird” Essay Contest were recently honored on campus with a luncheon awards ceremony and reception with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and University of Alabama faculty member Rick Bragg.
Dr. Neil Shubin, professor of anatomy and associate dean at the University of Chicago, will present his lecture, “Finding Your Inner Fish,” Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Auditorium on The University of Alabama campus.
Amanda Penick, professor of music and coordinator of the piano area in The University of Alabama’s School of Music, will be awarded the Music Teachers National Association Teacher of the Year Award Wednesday, April 2, at the Awards Brunch at the MTNA National Conference in Denver.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center and the department of women’s studies will present their Brown Bag Series on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 12:30 p.m. in 308 Manly Hall.