The homepage of the new online database “‘To See Justice Done’: Letters from the Scottsboro Trials.”

UA Launches Website for Studying Scottsboro Trials

The Alabama Digital Humanities Center is launching a new online database called “‘To See Justice Done’: Letters from the Scottsboro Trials,” at noon Monday, Oct. 24, in room 109a of Gorgas Library on The University of Alabama campus.

Photo by Chip Cooper

UA Welcomes More than 20 Cuban Scholars, Artists for Cuba Week

The University of Alabama’s Cuba Week kicks off Monday, Oct. 24 at 8:30 a.m. at Bryant-Jordan Hall on the UA campus.

Gladney Lecturer at UA Speaks on KKK Lawsuit

Laurence Leamer, a New York Times bestselling author, will present the 13th Rose Gladney Lecture on Justice and Social Change at The University of Alabama at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, in Gorgas Library, room 205, on the UA campus.

Mills Lecturer at UA to Speak on Art, Technology Entrepreneurship

Mills Lecturer at UA to Speak on Art, Technology Entrepreneurship

Doug McCraw, art collector and founder of the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, arts district FATVillage, will discuss “The Creative Entrepreneur: The Nexus of Art and Technology” during the Helen Crow Mills and John Carroll Mills Lecture at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 21, in room 3111 of the Ferguson Center on The University of Alabama campus.

Sen. Richard Shelby

U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby Comes to UA for Town Hall

U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby will visit The University of Alabama on Monday, Oct. 24, for an open question-and-answer session as a part of UA’s Blount Speaker Series.

LGBTQA+ Lecture and Symposium

In honor of LGBTQA+ history month in October, The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences is hosting an LGBTQA+ symposium with keynote lecturer Dr. Jeffrey McCune, an associate professor of women, gender, sexual studies and African and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

"The R.M.S. Titanic on the ocean floor" by Ken Marschall at transatlanticdesigns.com, courtesy of National Geographic.

Titanic Explorer Robert Ballard Comes to UA

Noted oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard will present a lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the Sellers Auditorium at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.

Jack Viertel

Broadway Producer to Present UA Lecture on Musicals

Noted theatrical producer Jack Viertel, who has shepherded numerous shows to Broadway including “The Piano Lesson,” “Angels in America,” “City of Angels” and “M. Butterfly,” will speak about “The Secret Life of the American Musical” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at the Marian Gallaway Theatre on The University of Alabama campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Nick Tew at Moraine Lake

UA Professor Receives Highest Award in Geosciences

The American Geosciences Institute recently announced that Dr. Berry H. “Nick” Tew Jr., the state geologist of Alabama and the director of The University of Alabama’s Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies, has received the AGI Medal in Memory of Ian Campbell for Superlative Service to the Geosciences, the institute’s highest award.

"Abandoned along the Interstate" by Ines Schaefer

UA Gallery Features Photographs of American Landscapes

The photography of Ines Schaefer will be displayed from Friday, Oct. 7, to Friday, Oct. 28, at The University of Alabama Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in downtown Tuscaloosa.