A mathematics course specially designed for practicing Alabama elementary and middle school teachers who need to fulfill the national “No Child Left Behind” requirements to become highly qualified teachers will be offered by The University of Alabama this spring.
A creature with exactly 302 neurons seems an unlikely stand-in for the human brain, when has more than 100 billion neurons. Yet C. elegans, a nematode no bigger than the comma after this clause, may be a new model for epileptic seizures in humans, according to researchers at The University of Alabama.
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.
Monday, Dec. 15, 2003, 9 a.m., at Coleman Coliseum
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.
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.