UA prof makes documentary for 50th anniversary of Surgeon General’s report on smoking – Manderson Graduate School ranked 12th for online graduate business programs – UA student founds Heliotrope Arts – UA book arts instructor featured in Q&A
The University of Alabama’s Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art in downtown Tuscaloosa opens today its first exhibit of the year, “Scottsboro Boys: The Fred Hiroshige Photographs” from the Morgan County Archives. It showcases historic photographs on loan from Morgan County that document the 1933 retrial of one of Alabama’s “Scottsboro Boys.”
An inaugural exhibition of artworks from the collection of University of Alabama alumni Jim and Myra Morgan will open Jan.16 at The University of Alabama Gallery in Tuscaloosa’s Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center. The exhibit, “The Morgan Collection – Selections,” will be displayed through March 7.
A new review by on-line business school website Poets & Quants reveals that the Manderson MBA Program at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce may not be ranked as high as it should be and is being undersold.
Students at The University of Alabama are invited to learn about more than 200 student organizations during Get on Board Day: Lock-in Edition, hosted by The SOURCE at UA. The event will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, on the second and third floors of the Ferguson Center on campus.
The University of Alabama’s Women’s Resource Center will host the fourth annual Elect Her-UA Women Win program at 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb 1, in 301 Ferguson Center on campus.
UA museum offers video game workshops for teens – UA students received Annexstad Foundation scholarships – IceCube project, including UA physicists, receives ‘Breakthrough’ award – Student known for ‘The Face’ interns with Jimmy Fallon – UA astronomer comments on ‘death by a black hole’ – UA gallery presents ‘Morgan Collection’ – and more…
Dr. Gregory Retallack, a world-leading expert in fossil plants and soil and a professor of geological sciences at the University of Oregon, will present the next lecture in The University of Alabama’s 2013-2014 ALLELE Lecture series Thursday, Jan. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building Auditorium on the UA campus.
UA geologist receives Presidential Early Career Award – Student’s exhibit focuses on history of slavery at UA – UA student interns on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ – Bitter cold weathers impacts UA campus – and more…
As the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services prepares to commemorate the 50th anniversary this month of the landmark Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health with a new report, a University of Alabama veteran anti-smoking strategist argues in a provocative new documentary released online Wednesday that efforts to reduce smoking have become more symbol than substance.