Dr. Robert F. Olin, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Alabama, has been selected to serve on the Committee on Science Policy for the American Mathematical Society.
Dozens of students in a University of Alabama honors organization will be offering free income tax filing assistance to the public three days per week beginning Feb. 3.
The University of Alabama’s Alabama Museum of Natural History and the UA Arboretum will host a St. Valentine’s Day dinner featuring an aromatically inspired gourmet meal and a presentation by one of America’s leading fragrance authorities, Saturday, Feb. 14, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Smith Hall, 427 6th Avenue, on the UA campus.
The University of Alabama astronomy department will hold a free public sky viewing of the moon and Saturn on Thursday, Feb. 5, beginning at 7 p.m. with Dr. Philip Hardee, UA professor of astronomy, as host of the event.
The University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing will host The Donna Cox Bridger Endowed Lectureship in Nursing and Health Care on March 5, 2004, in the Bryant Conference Center’s Sellers Auditorium.
The University of Alabama Career Center will host the 2004 Spring Career Fair Wednesday, Feb. 18, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Ballroom.
Iyare Izevbaye of Nigeria, a second year doctoral student at The University of Alabama, was recently awarded The Worthington Award from the American Society of Cell Biology. This honor is given to the top six students selected from a pool of thousands by some of the world’s top cell biologists.
The record rise of gasoline prices during 2004 underscored for consumers a need scientists have been interested in for some time — the search for alternative fuel sources. The University of Alabama is on the cutting edge of that search and is working toward innovative solutions to make hydrogen-powered cars and trucks a reality.
An author of a book about Nazi war crimes trials, and the heroic role filled in them by the Alabama-born lead prosecutor, will give a talk at The University of Alabama beginning at 7 p.m., Feb. 5 in ten Hoor Hall, room 125.
University of Alabama student Craig Williams, son of Terry and Laura Williams of Fairhope, has been awarded the 2004 National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation Academic Scholarship for Undergraduate Students sponsored by Allied Buying Corp.