The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center is sponsoring “Her Own Words,” a movie series celebrating Native American women, on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 3:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Theatre.
Thomas Cunningham, vice president and associate director of research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, will address “The Fed and the Post-Crisis Economy” at the Economic Outlook Conference 2010 on Thursday, Jan. 14 at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel.
The Miss University of Alabama program committee will host a candidate interest meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 5 p.m. in Alumni Hall.
Students involved in The University of Alabama’s “College of Engineering Does Amateur Radical Theatre” will showcase their acting skills by presenting “The Bachelor King” at the end of November.
Thanksgiving will be a little different this year for Beth Gottlieb, a percussion instructor in The University of Alabama’s School of Music. She and other members of a 12-piece band, led by actor Gary Sinise, will be entertaining hundreds of military troops in Afghanistan.
University of Alabama senior mechanical engineering students will compete with their newly designed recycling systems Thursday, Nov. 19, at 2 p.m. in room 252 of Hardaway Hall.
A chemistry professor, whose discovery of a way to dissolve cellulose forms the basis of new research efforts to turn trees into valuable chemicals and fuels, is the winner of The University of Alabama’s Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor award.
A recent University of Alabama study shows that the days preceding and following holidays, rather than the holidays themselves, are at a high risk for serious crashes involving injuries or fatalities.
Some 25 University of Alabama physics students will display poster presentations of their research during an open house Friday, Nov. 20 from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. in the first floor hallway of Gallalee Hall.
DATES TO REMEMBER Nov. 11 Patriotic music, Denny Chimes, noon and 4 p.m Financial Peace for the Next Generation, 321 Lloyd Hall, noon Washington Experience information session, 360 Ferguson Student Center, 7 p.m. H1N1 FluMist vaccine, Burke Hall (Crimson Source), 6:30-8 p.m. Nov. 12 “What can I do with a history degree?” 205 Gorgas Library,