UA Exhibit Welcomes Home Noted Artist William Christenberry

William Christenberry, Tuscaloosa native and University of Alabama art department graduate, will offer a lecture to open a homecoming exhibition of his work, “Land/Memory,” Thursday, Nov. 5.

UA Honors Teaching Award Winners

The University of Alabama National Alumni Association has announced the 2009 recipients of the University’s highest honor for excellence in teaching – the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Awards.

UA Student News for Oct. 20, 2009

DATES TO REMEMBER This week Alcohol Awareness Week Today Cyber Security and Online Social Networking panel for students, Ferguson Center Theater, 6 p.m. Oct. 21 Financial Peace for the Next Generation, 321 Lloyd Hall, noon H1N1 FluMist and seasonal flu shots and mist available to all students, Tutwiler Hall, 6:30–8 p.m. “The History Behind Hair,”

400 Years after Galileo Peered at Jupiter, UA Astronomers Invite You to Do the Same

University of Alabama astronomers invite the community to view Jupiter in the next Public Night sky-viewing session Friday, Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m.

Sanspointe Dance Company Presents Free Performance at UA

Sanspointe, a professional dance company, will present “Dances Fall” Tuesday, Oct. 27, in The University of Alabama’s Morgan Auditorium.

Birmingham Student Named UA Homecoming Queen

Sarah Gieger of Birmingham was named the University of Alabama Homecoming Queen for 2009 on Friday, Oct. 16 during UA’s annual Homecoming Pep Rally on campus.

Three Southern Authors Signing Books at UA

Three Southern authors of noteworthy books — Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help,” Rick Bragg’s “the most they ever had” and Sonny Brewer’s “The Widow and the Tree” – will be on campus for book signings featured by The University of Alabama Supply Store.

UA Center Has New Leadership Council, Developing Real Estate Confidence Index

Forty business leaders from within the construction, finance, sales, law and marketing sectors of the real estate community will comprise the newly formed Leadership Council of The University of Alabama’s Alabama Center for Real Estate.

UA Students Select Five Seniors for Homecoming Court

The 2009 University of Alabama Homecoming Court was chosen in a general student election held Tuesday, Oct. 13, on campus.

UA ALLELE Lecture Series Continues with Noted Anthropologist, Author

Dr. Jonathan Marks, a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will present his lecture, “Darwin’s Ventriloquists,” Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Auditorium on The University of Alabama campus.