MONDAY, AUG. 29 – MONDAY, SEPT. 5 2016 Note: The University will observe the Labor Day holiday Monday, Sept. 5. BEST BETS MEDIA AVAILABILITY: UA GAMEDAY – Roll Tide! Football season arrives soon, and UA’s first home game is scheduled for Sept. 10. Reporters are invited to the corner of Hackberry Lane and Campus Drive
Dr. Lesley Jill Gordon, former professor of history at the University of Akron, is the new Charles Grayson Summersell Endowed Chair of Southern History at The University of Alabama.
The University of Alabama’s department of physics and astronomy invites members of the community to attend a series of public nights this season to look at the heavens through UA telescopes.
Early modern literary scholar Dr. Michelle M. Dowd has been named Hudson Strode Professor of English and the new director of The University of Alabama’s Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies.
“Buy for RISE,” a charity sale and silent auction, will raise money for The University of Alabama’s RISE Center Friday, Aug. 26, and Saturday, Aug. 27, at the center, 600 Johnny Stallings Drive, across from University Medical Center.
Dr. Forrest Scogin, professor of psychology at The University of Alabama, received the American Psychological Association Committee on Aging’s Award for the Advancement of Psychology and Aging at its annual convention earlier this month.
MONDAY, AUG. 22 – SUNDAY, AUG. 28, 2016 BEST BETS WHEELCHAIR TENNIS PLAYER TRAINING FOR PARALYMPICS – Shelby Baron, a Hawaii native and UA communicative disorders major, will compete for the United States Women’s Wheelchair Tennis team in the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, which begin Sept. 7. Baron, who is training for her first
Before classes began, UA freshmen students had the opportunity to meet fellow newcomers as well as UA faculty and staff and participate in a new tradition–Alabama’s first “Script A” photo with their entering class.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama today unveiled a five-year strategic plan to serve as the roadmap for its future success. The UA Strategic Plan: Advancing the Flagship is available at https://www.ua.edu/strategicplan. “This plan allows us to dream big, to take the outstanding university we are today and to envision opportunities and possibilities and strive
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Legal scholars and members of the banking community will visit The University of Alabama School of Law Aug. 26 to discuss bank director and officer responsibilities. The conference on Bank Director & Officer Responsibilities will be held in the Bedsole Moot Courtroom, room 140. The event begins at 8:30 a.m. and is free