This week at The University of Alabama: UA to hold commencement ceremonies May 5-7 – Piano students taught remotely from New York City — Chesapeake Bay polluted earlier than thought – Antarctic Mountain Range formed from heat below — Expert to discuss anxiety, autism – Program focuses on transitions from hospital to home – Panel discusses mental health crisis within jails – Human trafficking subject of nursing conference
Two prominent University of Alabama alumni, Dr. E. Gaylon and Mrs. Susan N. McCollough, have gifted the College of Arts and Sciences with its largest academic endowment in more than two decades – for the purpose of creating two unprecedented initiatives: The Dr. E. Gaylon McCollough Institute for Pre-Medical Scholars and the Susan N. McCollough Art Biennale.
The University of Alabama School of Law has announced that former U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance will join the law school as a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Law in August.
This week at The University of Alabama: News conference for major gift announcement set for Friday – See Crimson Racing vehicle, meet Indy winner – Research shows Chesapeake polluted since mid 1800s – Symposium explores black, white intimacies during slavery – UA leads nation in Goldwaters – Insight into how Antarctic mountain range formed – Sustainable fashion on display … and more …
This week at The University of Alabama: UA ranks first nationally for Goldwaters – Youth’s Big Al-themed artwork leads to book – Computer research program launched in 1968 renamed for student from inaugural class – Ocean pest could be repelled using discovery related to its sense of smell – Golf tourney to benefit RISE – Faculty Research Day Wednesday – Students compete for research awards – Watch RISE celebrate Easter
Sixty teams of elementary through high school students from across Alabama will program robots to navigate obstacles Saturday in a competition held at The University of Alabama.
In celebration of its 50th anniversary and in honor of its longtime director who was formerly a student in its inaugural class, The University of Alabama’s Computer-Based Honors Program will be renamed the Catherine J. Randall Research Scholars Program.
Legal scholars will visit The University of Alabama School of Law April 7 to discuss how the law responds to difference and identity concerns.
This week at The University of Alabama: Honors Week – Student entrepreneurs win $50,000 – Easter Egg hunt set for Sunday – Faculty Research Day is Wednesday – Train photograph exhibit opens at transportation museum
Professor Bryan Fair and civil rights attorney Fred Gray will have “A Conversation about Jim Crow Policy” at 9:45 a.m. March 31 at the symposium on Bending the Arc of History: African-Americans and The University of Alabama School of Law.