During January, members of Men Against Violence at The University of Alabama are sponsoring the White Ribbon Campaign, an international campaign in which men make a pledge to help stop violence against women.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center will host brown bag lunch events in the Ferguson Forum beginning at noon on these dates.
Robert H. Herz, chairman of the powerful Financial Accounting Standards Board, will meet with local business leaders and address students, faculty and staff of the Culverhouse College of Commerce on Friday, Jan. 23, as part of the College’s Lowder Lecture Series, which brings prominent business leaders from around the country to The University of Alabama to lecture and meet with students, professors and local leaders.
Choice magazine’s newest issue names a book authored by Dr. Howard Jones, research professor of history at The University of Alabama, one of its “Outstanding Academic Titles” of 2003.
The National Pan-Hellenic Council, the coordinating council for The University of Alabama’s six historically black fraternities and sororities, will host a Greek Convocation on Jan. 14.
Two faculty members of the Culverhouse School of Accountancy at The University of Alabama are among the top 15 most prolific authors of accounting literature, according to a study published in Advances in Accounting, 2003.
Willem Blees, piano tuner/technician in The University of Alabama School of Music recently had an article on pianos published in China.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for a research project involving the development of a new Internet-based laboratory that provides instructional material on embedded systems.
Sara Johnson, managing director of the Global Macroeconomics Group at Global Insight (formerly DRI•WEFA), will present the U.S. Economic Outlook at the 2004 Economic Outlook Conference, presented by The University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research.
Tickets will go on sale Monday, Jan. 12, for a performance by gospel artist Yolanda Adams as part of the 15th annual Martin Luther King Jr. “Realizing the Dream” event at The University of Alabama Moody Music Concert Hall, Saturday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m.