The Slash Pine Poetry Festival, featuring more than 40 national and regional poets and authors performing two days of readings, will be Friday, April 23, and Saturday, April 24, at Woods Quad on The University of Alabama campus, as well as venues in Tuscaloosa and Northport.
The University of Alabama Crossroads Community Center will celebrate Unity through Diversity Week beginning Tuesday, April 6.
Dr. Douglas E. Jones, professor emeritus of geological sciences at The University of Alabama and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, died April 2, 2010 after a brief illness. He was 79.
The University of Alabama’s collegiate license tag program raised some $3.1 million during the 2009 fiscal year. Funds raised through the statewide program are used for scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students.
University of Alabama students are teaching chess to sixth graders at the Tuscaloosa City School’s magnet school through a new initiative called Every Move Counts: A Chess in Education Project.
The University of Alabama will recognize the achievement of outstanding students and faculty during 2010 Honors Week activities on campus April 5-9.
DATES TO REMEMBER March 30 “Archive of Americana and World Newspaper Archive” training session, Osburn Room in Gorgas Library Habitat for Humanity project interest meeting, 204-B Ferguson Student Center, 5 p.m. March 31 Penny Allen Award nominations due, noon “Archive of Americana and World Newspaper Archive” training session, Osburn Room in Gorgas Library 4th annual
A University of Alabama nursing and Computer-Based Honors Program student is striving to give a state disability advocacy program a means to better explore incidents with youth occurring in treatment facilities.
The Center for Community-Based Partnerships at The University of Alabama will present awards for the best faculty, student and community initiated engagement projects Friday, April 23, at the Hotel Capstone.
Dr. Thomas Hurka, a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, will speak April 13 at The University of Alabama on “Weighing Lives in War: When is Collateral Damage Excessive?” at 7:30 p.m. in room 205 of Smith Hall.