Campus & Community

President of Mortgage Bankers of America to be Keynote Speaker at UA Real Estate Conference

Dr. Douglas Duncan, senior vice president and chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual Alabama Real Estate Conference at The University of Alabama on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004.

Media Advisory — UA’s Winter Commencement Exercises

Monday, Dec. 15, 2003, 9 a.m., at Coleman Coliseum

UA to Host 21st Journalism Workshop

The University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences is recruiting high school students to participate in its 21st annual Multicultural Journalism Workshop, formerly known as the Minority Journalism Workshop.

Long-time UA Professor and Administrator to Speak at December Commencement

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.

UA Undergraduate Student Wins Prize for Research Presentation at INSPIRE Conference

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.

UA Student Receives Delta Zeta Award

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.

CCSO Names Indian Association Student Organization of the Month

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.

UA Staff Member, Former CW Editor Each Win Fiction Awards

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.

UA’s Journalism Department Places More Emphasis on Community Journalism

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.

UA, UGA and UM to Reflect on 40th Anniversaries of Desegregation, Look to Future at Jan. 13 Videoconference

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.