The Iota Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa at The University of Alabama will present the Living Legends Award to Drs. Joab Thomas and Roger Sayers, former UA presidents, on Nov. 10 at 6 p.m. at the University Club.
Dr. Beverly Thorn, chair of the psychology department at The University of Alabama, will receive the 2010 Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award.
The Alabama Center for the Book, housed at The University of Alabama Libraries, is co-sponsoring “Letters About Literature,” a state and national reading and writing contest for schoolchildren in fourth through 12th grade.
The Alabama Quality Award panel of judges has chosen four health care teams to receive the 2010 Team Showcase awards.
Benjamin Gravlee of Fairhope, a senior at The University of Alabama with a double major in civil and construction engineering, will be awarded the Baldwin County Road Builders Association Scholarship for $2,500 on Nov. 9.
The Alabama Quality Award panel of judges designated 12 organizations as recipients of the 2010 Alabama Quality Awards, honoring them for quality and performance excellence.
The University of Alabama Community Service Center and Bama Dining are sponsoring a Hunger Banquet on Monday, Nov. 1, at 6:30 p.m. in Burke Dining Hall as part of the annual Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive competition.
The University of Alabama will pay tribute to Autherine Lucy Foster, James Hood and the late Vivian Malone Jones, the three African-American students whose enrollment represented UA’s first steps toward desegregation, at the dedication of the Malone-Hood Plaza and Autherine Lucy Clock Tower at historic Foster Auditorium on Nov. 3.
Linnzi Rich, of Stevenson, created the winning design for The University of Alabama’s official tartan.
Three renowned communication and information leaders — Sanford Morton “Sandy” Grossman, James E. “Jimmy” Mills and Charles Joseph “Joe” Scarborough — will be inducted into The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences Hall of Fame on Thursday, Oct. 21.