Dr. Douglas E. Jones, University of Alabama professor emeritus of geology and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, will be the featured speaker for UA’s winter commencement ceremonies Monday, Dec. 15 at Coleman Coliseum on the UA campus.
Jeremy Lawson, a University of Alabama undergraduate physics major doing research in the UA Materials for Information Technology (MINT) Center, recently won a first-place prize for his research presentation at the INSPIRE conference at the University of Southern Mississippi Oct. 16-18.
April Leigh Quinn of Springville, a member of Delta Zeta sorority at The University of Alabama, was recently awarded the 2003 Florence Hood Miner Award.
The University of Alabama Coordinating Council for Student Organizations (CCSO) is proud to announce the Indian Association of Tuscaloosa (IAT) as the UA Student Organization of the Month for October.
Andy Duncan, associate director of Student Media at The University of Alabama, and Robert L. “Rick” McCammon, editor of The Crimson White UA student newspaper during the 1973-1974 academic year, won the Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Awards’ top prizes for writing for 2003.
The journalism department in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama is continuing to develop new journalism outreach programs, according to Dr. Ed Mullins, professor and department chair.
The Universities of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi will take part in a joint videoconference Jan. 13, 2004 to reflect on the 40th anniversary commemorations of desegregation on their respective campuses and to discuss the future of race relations in the South and in higher education.
The advisory board of the University Transportation Center for Alabama has selected University of Alabama engineering graduate student Patrick Clark as the 2003 UTCA Student of the Year.
The Alabama Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers has awarded University of Alabama civil and environmental engineering senior Amanda Estes Irvin the 2003 Billy Jones Memorial Traffic Engineering Scholar.
The EveryWoman Book Club will meet to discuss “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 6 p.m. in the Frances S. Summersell Library at The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center, located on the third floor of the Russell Student Health Center.