Nobel Prize Winner to Discuss Electronics Developments During UA Talk

The 2007 Nobel Prize winner in physics will discuss recent electronics developments springing from the discovery for which he was awarded the prize during a March 7 talk hosted by The University of Alabama’s MINT Center and department of physics and astronomy.

UA Junior Panhellenic to Host Community Easter Egg Hunt

The University of Alabama Junior Panhellenic will host their annual Community Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday, March 9, at 1 p.m. on the lawn of the UA President’s Mansion.

Gadsden Student Elected SGA President at UA

Cason Kirby of Gadsden was elected president of the Student Government Association at The University of Alabama for the 2008-2009 term.

UA in the News: March 6, 2008

“Enterprise” music composition praised – UA profs comment on counterterrorism spending and Birmingham government spending – SGA election results – Sorority honors civil rights event – and more…

UA Engineering to Host Robotics Summer Research Experience

The University of Alabama College of Engineering will host a robotics research program for undergraduates this summer.

UA Associate Provost Explores Poetry, Spirituality Through Book of Essays and Web-Based Chapbook

Fifty-four words, each
six stanzas, 18
lines total. Notes.
Essays. Experiments. Spirituality.
Publish: print, online.
“throttle chortle chicago”

In Lecture ‘Turning Japanese,’ UA Scholar Examines Female Author Caught Between Ethnicities

Winnifred Eaton (1879-1954) was one of the first known writers of Asian descent to be published in America. She wrote several popular novels set in Japan. Yet she tried to hide her ethnic identity – she was born in Canada to an English father and Chinese mother who had been adopted by missionaries. Eaton went so far as to use a Japanese pen name — Onoto Watanna.

UA in the News: March 5, 2008

The first five years of the Witt administration – Students to lobby in Montgomery

UA Student News: March 4, 2008

DATES TO REMEMBER March 4 SGA ELECTIONS: Vote from 9 a.m.–7 p.m. March 5 SGA ELECTIONS: Vote from 9 a.m.–7 p.m. “March to the Schoolhouse Doors,” 6 p.m., steps of Gorgas Library Association of Child Life Informational Meeting, 6 p.m., Child Development Center March 6 Higher Education Day, 11 a.m., Alabama State House in Montgomery

Miss UA Opens Legislative Session in Montgomery

Miss University of Alabama for 2008, Meri-Glenn Freeman (center) of Vestavia Hills, was recently invited to open a session of the Alabama House of Representatives in Montgomery.