EDUCATION BRIEFS
Birmingham News — April 9
Colin Allen, professor of history and philosophy of science from Indiana University, will present the lecture “Smart Animals, Dumb Humans? How Should We Understand the Evolutionary Continuity of Mind?” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the auditorium of UA’s biology building as part of The Alabama Lectures of Life’s Evolution series….
Novelist and performance artist Sapphire will present the Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Lecture, “I Wanted to Write,” Thursday at 7 p.m. at Ferguson Theatre as part of the University of Alabama’s African-American Studies Open House Week….
E. Tory Higgins, the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology, professor of business and director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia University, will deliver the Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture, hosted by the University of Alabama’s psychology department, at 6:30 p.m. Friday in UA’s Gordon Palmer Hall….The Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South at the University of Alabama will present the conference “Race & Place in the American South” Friday and Saturday at UA’s AIME Building….Students, faculty, staff and student-athletes from the University of Alabama will join with Terry Saban at Saturday’s A-Day game to raise money for the University Libraries….Six alumni from the University of Alabama College of Engineering will be inducted into the 2008 class of Distinguished Engineering Fellows. The honorees are Woodrow B. Cannon, Kevin Michael Hostler, Jerry L. Stewart, Sasa Tomic, Charles Vice and Susan Burch Waltman.
UA’s Saban to speak at banquet
Montgomery Advertiser – April 9
The Autauga Education Foundation announced last week at its monthly meeting that University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban has agreed to be the guest speaker at this year’s A+ Banquet. The 2008 banquet will be held May 21 at the Prattville High School gymnasium beginning at 7 p.m. The purchasers of the VIP tables will also attend a private reception with Saban at the Prattville Chamber of Com¬merce from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Football tickets will be paperless in fall
Crimson White – April 9
Paperless football tickets are in UA students’ futures, but details of the new system aren’t due to be released until later this week, officials said. Louise Crow, SGA vice president for Student Affairs, said Tuesday that SGA representatives have been meeting this week with the athletic office and Student Services, as well as other administrative offices, to finalize the details of the new system. Crow said information should be released no later than Friday and tickets should go on sale in the next few weeks.
Earmarks fund projects at the University
CrimsonWhite – April 9
The University receives federal earmarks and competitive grants from the government to help with the upkeep of the campus and provide money for research and different projects the school supports. But both sources of money can only be used for certain things.
Symposium held on black agriculture
Crimson White – April 9
As part of its Open House Week, the African-American Studies department at the Capstone held a symposium on African-American attitudes toward agriculture Tuesday. The symposium began with a screening of the film “Homecoming,” which shows the struggles blacks have endured to get and keep land of their own.
Criminal justice fair to be held Thursday
Crimson White – April 9
The University’s department of criminal justice, the Criminal Justice Student Association and Alpha Phi Sigma, the criminal justice department’s student honor society, are working to host their annual criminal justice career fair Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the third floor of the Ferguson Center.
JOB Site to help students find work
Crimson White – April 9, 2008
For some students, college life couldn’t get any better. They’re getting a top-notch education, they don’t have to worry about paying for food and paying rent is as far away as the distant future. For others, these worries are in the here and now. Some of these students are not on scholarship, and some don’t have their parents’ help in paying the bills. These students need jobs.