Campus & Community

Annual Civil War Lectures to be Held at UA

A series of lectures about the Civil War will be held Saturday, March 20, from 8:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. in Alston Hall, 361 Stadium Drive, on The University of Alabama campus.

UA Engineering Students Compete with a Concrete Canoe

Paper, plastic and Styrofoam easily float in water, but University of Alabama civil engineering students are working to make concrete float.

UA Forensics Team Wins 15th National Title

The Alabama Forensics Council at The University of Alabama won its 15th team national championship at this year’s Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha National Forensics Tournament. The UA team won the title on its home turf, as the tournament was held on the UA campus March 12-14.

Katie Boyd — At UA There’s Just Something About that Name

The University of Alabama has seen a number of great things from the outgoing Student Government Association president, Katie Boyd of Enterprise. During her four years at UA, Boyd has been involved in a number of organizations and activities and won several prestigious awards.

UA Supply Store Holds Graduation Celebration

The University of Alabama Supply Store is hosting a Graduation Celebration Monday-Wednesday, March 15-17, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Ballroom.

UA Recreation Center Holds Ultimate Athlete Contest

The University of Alabama Student Recreation Center is holding the Ultimate Athlete competition today through March 20. The competition is open to all UA students who are not intercollegiate or former varsity athletes.

Five Honored as UA Distinguished Engineering Fellows

The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently honored five alumni of the College by inducting them into its class of 2004 Distinguished Engineering Fellows.

McWhorter to Give ‘Last Witnesses to Segregation’ Talk at UA

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter will give a talk entitled “The Last Witnesses to Segregation: Dealing with the South’s Collective Amnesia about the Past” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17 at The University of Alabama.

UA Writing Workshop to be Held in Conjunction with Cason Award

Friends of the late Dr. Bailey Thomson, University of Alabama journalism professor and the 2004 co-winner of the Clarence Cason Nonfiction Writing Award, including two fellow winners of the prize, will present a writing workshop at 9:30 a.m., Friday, March 19, in 216 Reese Phifer Hall on the UA campus.

Researcher Who has Linked Weed-Killer to Frogs’ Developmental Problems to Give Darden Lecture at UA

The nation’s top-selling weed killer, atrazine, disrupts the sexual development of frogs at concentrations 30 times lower than levels allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to research published by a University of California, Berkeley scientist who will speak at The University of Alabama on March 25.