DATES TO REMEMBER Jan. 27 SGA Town Hall Meeting on student tickets, 7 p.m., Graves Hall Jan. 28 Stand Up for Mental Health: Comedy for a Cause, 7 p.m., Ferguson Center Theatre Feb. 1 Honor Society applications due Feb. 2 African-American Heritage Month Read-In, 5 p.m., 232 Ferguson Center EVENTS, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT • SGA
Trauma and life surrounding the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans will be the subject of a reading and panel discussion featuring noted scholar and author Dr. Jerry W. Ward Jr. Feb. 4-5 at The University of Alabama.
Stand Up For Mental Health, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based organization is teaming up with local agencies to offer a comedy program at The University of Alabama Ferguson Center Theater on Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. as a way of raising awareness of mental illness among college students.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering has landed a $2.98 million grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education to establish a new five-year program for two high schools and four middle schools in Sumter County.
Dr. E. Eugene Marsh III, dean of The University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences and associate dean of the UA School of Medicine, will be the featured speaker for the seventh annual Susan and Gaylon McCollough Medical Scholars Forum Jan. 30-31 in Shelby Hall on the UA campus.
Nicole Jordan, a sophomore at The University of Alabama from Memphis, Tenn., double majoring in nursing and musical theater, has been selected Miss UA for 2009.
EVENTS, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT • Higher Education Day will be held March 5 in Montgomery. This event provides students with the opportunity to show unity among all 13 public universities throughout Alabama and to contact the state legislature directly. Students who plan to attend will need to register in the SGA Office on or before
The new executive officers for The University of Alabama’s Interfraternity Council have been named.
The University of Alabama Cooperative Education Program is an academic program in which a student alternates periods of full-time study with periods of full-time employment with professionals in their field.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering will host Dr. Diran Apelian from Worcester Polytechnic Institute as he addresses engineering education for the 21st century related to improving enrollments and inspiring the next generation of engineers.