The University of Alabama will host its annual High School German Day on Monday, March 2 at the Ferguson Center with some 350 high school students from across the state expected to be on campus to participate in the event.
“MAH: Moving Around Heidegger,” an interdisciplinary art project conceived and produced by University of Alabama faculty and students, has been chosen for screening in the international exhibition “Globalscreen 2008-2010: Simulations.”
DATES TO REMEMBER Feb. 17 Mardi Gras Ball, The Zone at Bryant-Denny Stadium, 8 p.m. Feb. 18 Academic Advising Roundtable, 205 Gorgas Library, 10 a.m. College of Arts and Sciences Ambassadors applications due Feb. 22 African-American History Tours, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Feb. 23 ‘Race, Politics and the Media in
The University of Alabama Libraries is sponsoring a Book Collecting Contest for UA students this semester. The contest aims to promote reading and interest in book collecting.
One of the world’s largest collections of 20th-century African-American Art, the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, will be on display at The University of Alabama and Stillman College in March. It will be the first UA exhibition of the collection since Jones donated it to the University in October 2008.
The University of Alabama Ferguson Center Student Union will host the fourth annual Hip-Hop Summit with the theme “Expressing the Nation” Feb. 16-18 on campus.
The University of Alabama Community Service Center’s Hunger and Homelessness Week will be held Feb. 16-20 and is designed to raise the public’s awareness of poverty in our state and around the world.
Dr. Bryan Norton, distinguished professor of philosophy in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, will speak on “Strategy Amid Uncertainty: Learning to Think Like a Planet” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, in The University of Alabama’s Biology Auditorium. The event, part of the Alabama Perspectives on Sustainability and Climate Change lecture series, is free and open to the public.
Grayson Glaze, executive director of the Alabama Center for Real Estate, has been elected secretary of the Alabama Chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management.
The University of Alabama’s Greek community has elected new officers for 2009.