University of Alabama Libraries will hold an open book reading and discussion on Thursday, April 22, at 4 p.m. on the second floor of Gorgas Library featuring Dr. Philip Beidler, UA professor of English.
University of Alabama Men Against Violence are sponsoring a showing of the film “Wrestling with Manhood” on Tuesday, April 20, at 6:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Forum. Admission is free, and the public is invited to attend.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center is hosting a number of events this month. All of the events are free and open to the public.
The University of Alabama honored its top students of 2003-2004 for their academic achievement and leadership Friday, April 16, during the Tappings and Awards Ceremony on the Mound, the highlight of UA’s annual Honors Week, April 12-16.
Although nearly half of all the recorded extinctions of animal species during the past 500 years are nonmarine mollusks, such as freshwater clams and snails, their decline is largely ignored by the public and even most biologists, according to an article co-authored by a University of Alabama biologist and published in the latest issue of BioScience.
A Johns Hopkins history professor conducting research in race, sex and the Civil Rights movement will give a talk at The University of Alabama at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 19.
The University of Alabama academic community is taking several steps to more formally recognize the African-American history of its campus and by the fall 2004 semester will establish an administrative unit focusing on diversity and inclusiveness issues, UA President Robert E. Witt announced today.
University of Alabama student Jason M. Spruell of Dothan recently was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Spruell is the only student from an Alabama institution to receive one of the 310 scholarships awarded for the 2004-05 academic year to undergraduate sophomores and juniors from across the United States.
Student leaders from The University of Alabama Youth Summit recently met with Alabama Gov. Bob Riley to present the Top 10 Issues affecting the state as identified by Youth Summit delegates.
Beginning April 17, several sections of roads on The University of Alabama campus will close to begin the construction of the new residence halls being built near Rose Towers.