The University of Alabama Undergraduate Social Work Organization, or USWO, will host Terance B. Lester, motivational speaker and author of “U-Turn: The Teenage Turnaround,” Tuesday, Jan. 27 at 11:30 a.m. in 104 Little Hall on the UA campus.
Stand Up For Mental Health, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based organization is teaming up with local agencies to offer a comedy program at The University of Alabama Ferguson Center Theater on Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. as a way of raising awareness of mental illness among college students.
One of Time magazine’s top 100 influential people of 2006 will discuss the influence global climate may have on hurricane activity at the Alabama Perspectives on Sustainability and Climate Change, or APSACC, series at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 in the Biology Building auditorium, room 127, on The University of Alabama campus.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering has landed a $2.98 million grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education to establish a new five-year program for two high schools and four middle schools in Sumter County.
Dr. E. Eugene Marsh III, dean of The University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences and associate dean of the UA School of Medicine, will be the featured speaker for the seventh annual Susan and Gaylon McCollough Medical Scholars Forum Jan. 30-31 in Shelby Hall on the UA campus.
Nicole Jordan, a sophomore at The University of Alabama from Memphis, Tenn., double majoring in nursing and musical theater, has been selected Miss UA for 2009.
The community is invited to view the moon and Venus in the next Public Night sky-viewing session at The University of Alabama on Thursday, Jan. 29 at 7 p.m.
EVENTS, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT • Higher Education Day will be held March 5 in Montgomery. This event provides students with the opportunity to show unity among all 13 public universities throughout Alabama and to contact the state legislature directly. Students who plan to attend will need to register in the SGA Office on or before
The new executive officers for The University of Alabama’s Interfraternity Council have been named.
The University of Alabama Cooperative Education Program is an academic program in which a student alternates periods of full-time study with periods of full-time employment with professionals in their field.