UA Student News: March 25, 2008

DATES TO REMEMBER March 25 Off-campus housing information session, 6:30 p.m. at Burke Hall and 7:30 p.m. at Tutwiler Hall Graduation Celebration, 9–6 p.m., Ferguson Ballroom March 26 University Stewards applications due SPIRIT Scholarship applications due Graduation Celebration, 9-6 p.m., Ferguson Ballroom March 27 Off-campus Housing information session, 6:30 p.m. at Paty Hall and 7:30

UA’s Everywoman Book Club to Discuss ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’

The Everywoman Book Club, sponsored by The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center, will meet to discuss “The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Gregory on Thursday, March 27, at noon in The Globe Restaurant.

UA Engineering Students Prepare for Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoe Competitions

Do you think it is impossible to float a concrete canoe? Can you design and construct a replacement for a century-old bridge that spans a river and adjacent floodways?

Psychologist Whose Program Intervenes with Children with Aggressive Behavior Receives UA’s Burnum Award

Dr. John E. Lochman, professor and Saxon Chair in Clinical Psychology at The University of Alabama, director of the Center for Prevention of Youth Behavior Problems and co-developer of the “Coping Power” program to help treat persistent and disruptive aggressive behavior in children, is the recipient of The University of Alabama’s 2007 Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award.

UA’s Summersell Center Stages ‘Race, Place’ Conference, Plans Significant Projects on History of Alabama

Through an upcoming conference, an investigation of an African-American architect and a database for Civil War manuscripts, the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South at The University of Alabama continues to broaden our knowledge of the region’s exciting and varied heritage.

UA Student Radio Station, 90.7 the Capstone, Brings Tuscapalooza to Tuscaloosa

WVUA-FM 90.7 The Capstone is presenting Tuscapalooza, an event devoted to experiencing the diversity of Tuscaloosa’s music scene, on Friday, March 28, at the Bama Theatre in downtown Tuscaloosa.

Black Belt 100 Lenses Project to be Shown at UA

The University of Alabama Crossroads Community Center and the Center for Community-Based Partnerships will display the Black Belt 100 Lenses Project with an opening celebration for the exhibit Tuesday, March 25, at 4 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Crossroads Lounge.

Engineering Enters the Equation When UA’s Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre Performs April 1-4

This spring, the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre goes high-tech Tuesday through Friday, April 1-4, in Morgan Auditorium at The University of Alabama with two dances that are the result of collaboration between UA’s dance program and the College of Engineering.

Secrets, Lies and Karma: UA’s Strode Program in Renaissance Studies Presents Lectures in April on Spenser, Shakespeare

The world of the English Renaissance and aspects of its two towering authors – Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare – will be revealed in two upcoming lectures in April as part of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies lecture series. Each lecture will be at 5 p.m. in 301 Morgan Hall on The University of Alabama campus.

New Panhellenic Executive Officers and Sorority Presidents Elected at UA

The new executive officers of the University of Alabama National Panhellenic Conference recently started their 2008 terms in office.