University of Alabama students will be taking part in Chi Alpha Campus Ministry’s “Smurf Out Poverty” event on Thursday, April 16 at 7 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Plaza with the goal of breaking a world record while raising money to feed families in need.
DATES TO REMEMBER April 8 Sigma Lambda Gamma Founders Day Luau, Riverside Pool, 6:30 p.m. April 13 “My Economy is Whack…but What Now?” 20 Alston Hall, 7 p.m. Resonance Show Choir performance, Moody Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m. Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference, Ferguson, 8 a.m.- 3 p.m. April 14 Tee-Time Fashion Show, front lawn
While engineers are commonly known for their problem-solving abilities, students of The University of Alabama’s College of Engineering Does Amateur Radical Theatre are taking their skills beyond the realm of math and science and applying them to theater in the howling comedy “The Big Bad Musical.”
A University of Alabama researcher is exploring the effects that rising sea level and greenhouse gases may have on the nation’s coastal wetlands.
Dr. Harris Schlesinger, professor of finance and Frank Park Samford Chair of Insurance at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce, is the author or co-author of three of the top 25 most-cited articles in the top three insurance journals during the period 2000-2004.
Dr. Chris Jones, a noted mathematician, will speak on “Climate Change: Can Mathematics Help Clear the Air?” at 1 p.m. Friday, April 17, in 208 Gordon Palmer Hall on The University of Alabama campus.
Dr. Joe Benson, a long-time faculty member and administrator at The University of Alabama, has been named vice president for research and vice provost at UA.
More than 100 University of Alabama undergraduate and law students worked during the first six weeks of tax season at free tax preparation sites across the state to prepare some 1,900 returns for working families. UA students helped these families secure $3.7 million in tax refunds and saved them $475,000 in commercial tax preparation fees.
Pianist David Breitman will perform alongside The University of Alabama Huxford Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. April 20 in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building on the UA campus for the final 2008-2009 Celebrity Series performance.
The University of Alabama’s Manderson Graduate School’s programs in accounting and marketing are included in the Top 15 nationally in a survey published by Entrepreneur Magazine in the April 2008 issue. The study was conducted by The Princeton Review.