MONDAY, JAN. 6 – SUNDAY, JAN. 12
RESEARCH
ENGINEERS HELP FIND SITE TO DRILL FOR ANTARCTICA’S ANCIENT ICE — A unique radar developed by engineering researchers at UA helped find the location to recover some of the oldest ice buried in Antarctica as part of an international effort to better understand the Earth’s climate history. Using information collected by the radar, scientists leading the project confirmed the site where they intend to drill a core of ice in East Antarctica. It is possible the drilling will recover ice nearly 1.5 million years old, which may reveal why the climate cycle for the Earth’s ice ages lengthened roughly 1 million years ago. Contact UA researchers Dr. Drew Taylor at rtaylor@eng.ua.edu and Dr. Stephen Yan at jbyan@ua.edu. For assistance, contact Adam Jones in UA communications at 205-348-4328 or adam.jones@ua.edu.
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SOCIAL WORK TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF WOMEN’S VOTING RIGHTS — This year marks the 100th year since the passage of the 19th amendment, which grants women the right to vote in the U.S. UA’s School of Social Work’s “Own Your Vote” speaker series will celebrate this milestone Jan. 9 with a lunch-and-learn featuring speakers Dev Wakeley of Alabama Arise and representatives from the League of Women Voters’ Greater Tuscaloosa chapter. The event will be held from noon-1 p.m. in room 2019 in Little Hall on UA’s campus. Lunch will be provided, and the event is free and open to the public. Organizers ask that attendees bring various hygiene items to donate to the UA Women and Gender Resource Center’s “pack a purse” program. For more information, contact David Miller, UA School of Social Work, at 205-348-3942 or David.c.miller@ua.edu.
LOOKING AHEAD
REALIZING THE DREAM BANQUET, CONCERT SET FOR JAN. 17, 19 — The 2020 Realizing the Dream Legacy Banquet and Concert celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Legacy Banquet, scheduled for Friday, Jan. 17, will be in the Bryant Conference Center with the Jan. 19 concert in the Moody Music Concert Hall. The banquet speaker is Laura Ling, an award-winning journalist and author, and the featured concert guest is gospel artist Jonathan McReynolds. For more information, contact Diane Kennedy-Jackson in UA community affairs at 205-348-4480 or dkkennedy1@ua.edu or UA communications, 205-348-5320.
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