University of Alabama Honors College visiting professor Dr. Sangita Rayamajhi will give a talk on issues affecting women in her home country, Nepal, on Feb. 10 at 12:30 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library.
Grayson Glaze, executive director of the Alabama Real Estate Center at The University of Alabama, has earned the Certified Property Manager designation from the Institute of Real Estate Management, an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors.
The University of Alabama’s department of theatre and dance presents the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre’s spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17-19 and 5:30 p.m. Feb. 20 in Morgan Auditorium on Colonial Drive in the UA Theatre District.
Winners of The University of Alabama’s eighth annual “To Kill a Mockingbird” Essay Contest were recently honored on campus with a luncheon awards ceremony and reception with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and UA faculty member Rick Bragg.
Dr. Charles S. Caver, distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Miami, will speak on “Two Layers of the Mind: Serotonergic Function, and What Impulsive Aggression and Depression Have in Common” at The University of Alabama’s Harold Basowitz Lecture.
Roy Hoffman, an acclaimed novelist and journalist, will receive the 2009 Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing from The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences Thursday, March 5 at a dinner in his honor at the Hotel Capstone.
A total of 5,477 students enrolled during the fall 2008 semester at The University of Alabama made the Dean’s List with academic records of 3.5 or above (on a 4.0 scale), or the President’s List with academic records of 4.0 (all As).
The National Teach-In on Global Warming will offer an opportunity for The University of Alabama community to discuss the impact of the environment and climate change. Teach-In sessions are planned from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 5 in 205 Gorgas Library.
The state of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame will induct seven individuals and honor one project during a Feb. 21 ceremony at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center in Auburn.
The University of Alabama continues to attract some of the nation’s most talented students, ranking 11th among the nation’s 629 public universities in the enrollment of National Merit Scholars for 2008-2009 and 28th among the more than 2,400 public and private universities nationwide. UA’s ranking is up from last year when the University ranked 12th among public universities and 30th overall.