The University of Alabama’s new interdisciplinary transportation and science complex, Shelby Hall, was dedicated today in an afternoon ceremony with special guests U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and his wife, Dr. Annette N. Shelby, in attendance.
A new television episode of Turner South Broadcasting’s series “The Natural South,” will air Saturday, May 29 at 9 a.m., featuring University of Alabama Museum of Natural History volunteer paleontologists at a UA-owned dig site examining Mesozoic-era life, such as the 80-million-year-old gigantic water reptile now on display at the museum.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering’s department of chemical engineering will add a biological emphasis to its bachelor’s degree program beginning immediately. This shift in program emphasis also is reflected in the department’s name change to chemical and biological engineering.
A few weeks ago I picked up USA Today and shook my head as I read that its star foreign correspondent had faked many of his top stories. To say that I was disappointed doesn’t begin to describe my feelings. I hope to be a professional journalist one day, but with two of the nation’s leading newspapers guilty of fabrication, plagiarism and other mortal sins of the craft, I wondered if I’d picked the right career.
Congressman Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) will deliver The University of Alabama School of Law’s commencement address on Friday, May 14, at 3 p.m. in Coleman Coliseum.
The University of Alabama’s University Medical Center opens today on the corner of Fifth Avenue East and University Boulevard. The Center is the only multi-specialty clinic in Tuscaloosa.
Students Receive Honors from UA’s College of Human Environmental Sciences
Fourteen University of Alabama mechanical engineering students recently attended the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Regional Student Conference in Mobile. Several of the students won awards for their work and will represent the Southeast at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Anaheim, Calif., in November.
The University of Alabama is finding innovative solutions that will make hydrogen-powered automobiles a reality. As part of President George W. Bush’s Hydrogen Research Initiative, the Capstone has been named a partner in a Grand Challenge Center for Chemical Hydrogen Storage. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham recently announced the winning hydrogen storage research centers.
Dr. William A. Curry, dean of The University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences since 1998, is stepping down to accept a position at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. There he will serve as professor of medicine, attending physician on the Tinsley Harrison Service at University Hospital and as the University of Alabama School of Medicine associate dean for primary care and rural health.