Robert Abernathy, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Halyard Health, Inc., will present “Transforming a Company” for the Helen Crow Mills and John Carroll Mills Lecture Thursday, March 5 at 3 p.m. in the Mortar Board Room, room 300, of the Ferguson Student Center on campus.
A delegation led by Yasuo Saito, former Japanese Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Russia and France, will visit The University of Alabama March 3 for a lunch and symposium on Japanese society, business, technology and culture.
University of Alabama theatre students will perform dramatic readings from the plays of Tennessee Williams, including performances from “Glass Menagerie” and “A Streetcar Named Desire,” on March 2 and 3 as part of a tribute to Williams and his friendship with Dr. Marian Gallaway, longtime professor of theatre at UA and director of UA’s department of theatre from 1947-1973.
Biologist Mike Antolin will present a lecture on the relationship between public health and evolution Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building Auditorium, room 127, on The University of Alabama campus.
Dr. Michael Bérubé, director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University, will present “The Value and Values of the Humanities” Feb. 26 as part of The University of Alabama’s Hidden Humanities lecture series.
University of Alabama art students will exhibit works inspired by the music of renowned jazz composer and musician Anthony Braxton through Feb. 27 at the UA gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in downtown Tuscaloosa.
The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved today the establishment of the Center for Cuba Collaboration and Scholarship at UA.
Dr. Herbert T. Boschung, professor emeritus of biology at The University of Alabama, died Thursday, Feb. 5 at Hospice of West Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He was 89.
Dr. Samuel Emmett Parker, professor emeritus of French at The University of Alabama, died Wednesday, Jan. 28 in Tuscaloosa.
More than 25 photographs, lithographs and digital collages centered on the theme of “Photography Speaks: Community, Place, and Identity” are on display at The University of Alabama’s Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art in downtown Tuscaloosa through Feb. 20.