Dr. Charles S. Carver, an expert on personality and individual differences, will discuss “Two Layers of the Mind: Serotonergic Function and What Impulsive Aggression and Depression Have in Common” as the guest speaker for the Basowitz Memorial Lecture hosted by The University of Alabama psychology department Friday, Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m. in 208 Gordon Palmer Hall.
The University of Alabama’s Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity will host their fifth annual “Fade to Black” social event to raise money for the March of Dimes Foundation on Saturday, Jan. 31 at 9:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Ballroom on campus.
The University of Alabama’s department of theatre and dance presents Euripides’ “Medea” from Tuesday, Feb. 10, to Sunday, Feb. 15, in the Allen Bales Theatre on Stadium Drive in the UA Theatre District.
Grayson Glaze, executive director of the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama, has been awarded the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation by the CCIM Institute, one of the leading commercial real estate associations in the world.
The December 2008 New Construction Report, which includes building permits and housing starts, is now posted at The University of Alabama’s Center for Real Estate, or ACRE, Web site.
DATES TO REMEMBER Jan. 27 SGA Town Hall Meeting on student tickets, 7 p.m., Graves Hall Jan. 28 Stand Up for Mental Health: Comedy for a Cause, 7 p.m., Ferguson Center Theatre Feb. 1 Honor Society applications due Feb. 2 African-American Heritage Month Read-In, 5 p.m., 232 Ferguson Center EVENTS, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT • SGA
Trauma and life surrounding the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans will be the subject of a reading and panel discussion featuring noted scholar and author Dr. Jerry W. Ward Jr. Feb. 4-5 at The University of Alabama.
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.