A professor at The University of Alabama is the editor-in-chief of the recently published Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience. The massive 330 entry, two-volume work has been called “a seminal work of impeccable scholarship” by Internet Bookwatch.
DATES TO REMEMBER Nov. 17 Off-campus-housing information, Rose Towers, 6:30 p.m.; Paty Hall, 8 p.m. Nov. 18 Apple Campus Store Grand Opening, Ferguson Student Center Plaza, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Literacy is the Edge Volunteer and Tutor Recruitment, Ferguson Student Center, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Financial Peace for the Next Generation, 321 Lloyd Hall, noon H1N1 vaccinations,
The University of Alabama Community Service Center’s 2009 Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive concludes this week with Brown’s Corner Dueling Piano Bar hosting a benefit at 9 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19, the last day of the drive.
Dr. Susan Gaskins and Dr. Pam Foster of The University of Alabama will investigate the impact of disclosing an AIDS diagnosis on rural African-American men under a $100,000 grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research.
The University of Alabama Supply Store has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand its textbook rental program.
In an atypical collaboration, an assistant professor in The University of Alabama’s English department and a UA undergraduate have co-authored an article publishing in May in a top academic journal.
Thanks to grants from the National Science Foundation, the NASA Alabama Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and the Lindbergh Foundation, Dr. Amy Lang continues researching what designers of aircraft and underwater vehicles could learn by imitating nature’s design of shark skins.
Michael Lewis, a senior majoring in aerospace engineering from Knoxville, Tenn., was selected as a 2009 Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation Scholar.
The grand opening of the Apple Campus Store at The University of Alabama will be held Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 11:45 a.m. in the Ferguson Center SupeStore.
After a 16-year high in the first quarter of 2009, The Alabama Housing Affordability Index shows a slight decline in the third quarter of 2009, according to the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama.