Dr. Matthew D. Bunker, Reese Phifer Professor of Journalism in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama, recently received the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression for his book, “Critiquing Free Speech: First Amendment Theory and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity.”
The public relations program in the College of Communication and Information Sciences department of advertising and public relations at The University of Alabama recently received Public Relations Society of America Certification (CEPR). PRSA’s certification report called UA’s PR program “one of the most successful undergraduate programs in the country.”
The 10th annual National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association Collegiate Soccer Sport Club championships will be held Thursday, Nov. 20, through Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Student Recreation Center field complex of The University of Alabama and at Sokol Park fields.
The Names Project Foundation AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display at the Ferguson Center on The University of Alabama campus from Nov. 17- Dec. 5. It will be hung for viewing in the stairwell behind the information desk from 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 10 a.m.-9 p.m. on Sunday.
An impressive 97 percent of the May 2003 graduates of The University of Alabama School of Law who took the Alabama bar exam in July passed.
Dr. Diane Roberts, University of Alabama English professor and well-known political commentator in the United States and abroad, will be honored by her alma mater, Florida State University, on Nov. 15.
The University of Alabama Army ROTC will hold its annual “Dining In” event on Friday, Nov. 14, at 6 p.m. in the Four Points Sheraton Hotel.
University of Alabama senior mechanical engineering students have designed and built ride-on toys for limited mobility children in the RISE Program. Besides giving the children toys to ride, the toys will provide these children with experience in driving electronic devices and help prepare them for electric wheelchairs sooner.
Like many of my generation, I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when the news arrived from Dallas that President John F. Kennedy had been shot.
About 10 Cuban photographers, economists, writers, scientists, poets and other professionals are scheduled to visit The University of Alabama campus to join with Latin American experts from UA and across the nation for the Alabama-Cuba Conference Nov. 17-20.