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.
The University of Alabama College of Human Environmental Sciences (HES) installed the Delta Xi Chapter of Eta Sigma Gamma, the national professional health education honorary, and held an initiation for new chapter members during the fall semester.
Tuskegee native Robert Turner has become the first African-American student selected as chief of staff of the Student Government Association at The University of Alabama. As the executive chief of staff, he is responsible for implementing policies and creating programs to ensure communication and productivity between the executive council, committee chairs and committee members.
The University of Alabama theatre honors fraternity Alpha Psi Omega is staging a 10-minute play festival Thursday, Dec. 4-Saturday, Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. each night in the Allen Bales Theatre on the UA campus. The suggested donation is $5 at the door with all proceeds going to West Alabama AIDS Outreach.
The University of Alabama Chapter of Circle K International will be lighting up the campus on Sunday, Dec. 7, with its annual “Luminaries on the Quad” event.
The University of Alabama’s astronomy department will hold a free public sky viewing of the Moon, Mars and Saturn on Friday, Dec. 5 beginning at 7 p.m. Dr. Philip Hardee, professor of astronomy, will host the event. Guests will look through the refracting telescope in the dome of Gallalee Hall. Mars and the Moon will be viewable immediately, but Saturn will not show up until about 9 p.m. This is the last Public Nights viewing of the fall semester.
The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art will feature the work of current and emeritus faculty of The University of Alabama’s department of art in the exhibition “Department of Art Faculty Exhibition 2004.”