The University of Alabama Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team came in second by only one point in the Women’s National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament held earlier this month in Champaign, Ill.
A friend’s surprising decision to leave graduate study to pursue life as a stripper inspired Dr. Catherine M. Roach, an associate professor in The University of Alabama’s New College in the College of Arts and Sciences, to examine the lives of strippers and how popular culture has embraced the world of strip clubs.
The University of Alabama Arboretum will celebrate its 50th anniversary at the “Art & Accolades Gala” Thursday, April 3 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the President’s Mansion on The University of Alabama campus.
The University of Alabama student chapter of the Association of Builders and Contractors recently placed fourth overall in the student chapter construction management competition and placed third in the estimating category at the ABC National Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Two students enrolled in The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce insurance and risk management curriculum have been chosen to attend national conferences.
DATES TO REMEMBER March 12 Corporate Citizenship Panel, 1–2 p.m., 30 Alston Hall Teaching Internship Application Meeting, 4 p.m., 118 Graves Hall March 13 LUNAFEST, reception at 6 p.m., films at 7 p.m., Bama Theatre Corolla Yearbook Sales, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., front of Gordon Palmer Hall March 17 Road Closing: south end of Fraternity Lane
Tim Rose, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering from Rochester Hills, Mich., was one of 25 students selected to participate in the 2008 Society of Automotive Engineers Leadership Development Program.
Two third-year University of Alabama School of Medicine students are getting enhanced training in rural medical practice through TERM – the Tuscaloosa Experience in Rural Medicine, a program of UA’s College of Community Health Sciences.
How would you like to conduct the University of Alabama’s Million Dollar Band in front of 92,000 people at a Crimson Tide home football game?
The controversial discovery of a possible new species of man, named after the short, hole-dwelling Halflings in J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels, will be discussed at The Alabama Lectures on Life’s Evolution, or ALLELE, series on March 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Biology Building on The University of Alabama campus.