The University of Alabama Office of Student Media will unveil the 2003 “Wall of Fame,” to honor and preserve the names of distinguished leaders in media. The event will take place Friday, Oct. 10, at 4:30 p.m. at the Student Media Building, located at 923 University Blvd., on the corner of University Blvd. and Stadium Drive.
Dr. Tom Reichert, author and professor of advertising in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama, will be signing copies of his new book, “The Erotic History of Advertising,” on Oct. 10 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Books-A-Million.
The University of Alabama’s dining service provider, ARAMARK, will bring world renowned Chilean chef Carlos Carmona to the Capstone Oct. 10-14 as part of ARAMARK’s 9th Annual International Guest Chef Exchange.
Five of the state’s leading business and civic leaders will be inducted into the Alabama Business Hall of Fame on Thursday, Oct. 16 at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.
University of Alabama alumnus and geneticist Dr. Richard Myers, researcher with the Human Genome Project, will return to his alma mater to speak on “The next 100 years: How the sequence of the Human Genome will affect biology, medicine and our lives.”
The School of Library and Information Studies at The University of Alabama will host a luncheon talk on “The Nature of Storytelling and the Work of the Storyteller” by noted storyteller, author and teacher Diane Wolkstein. The event is 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 10, at the Tuscaloosa Public Library, 1801 Jack Warner Parkway.
Enrollment in The University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing hit an all-time high this semester – welcome news to a health care industry reeling in the midst of a national nursing shortage. The flood of students has led to creative ways of obtaining sufficient classroom and laboratory space.
A record number of students is enrolled at The University of Alabama this fall as enrollment topped 20,000 for the first time in the University’s history.
On Friday, Oct. 10 at 8 p.m., The University of Alabama department of astronomy will host a viewing of Mars and the full moon.
Twelve people, including the director of a World Health Organization center, a woman who advised four U.S. presidents on health care issues of the elderly, and a hospital administrator who developed an innovative patient classification system, will be inducted in the Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame, established by The University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing.