While laws and cultural norms were aligned against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, a new book by Dr. Joshua Rothman, assistant professor of history at The University of Alabama, indicates it was ubiquitous throughout the state.
Alabama’s fastest growing counties have traditionally been in the state’s metropolitan areas, but a couple of counties usually considered “rural,” have, in the past two years, seen healthy growth rates that have eclipsed the national average growth rate of 2.2 percent, according to Annette Watters, assistant director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at The University of Alabama and manager of the Alabama State Data Center.
The University of Alabama’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series will end the 2003 season with a May Day Extravaganza first book reading from authors Andy Duncan, Jill Christman, Jennifer Davis, Kevin Waltman and Eliot Wilson. The reading will take place on May 1 in 205 Smith Hall on the UA campus beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Nationally recognized science educator and cognitive researcher Dr. Anton Lawson will present the lecture “Promotion and Evaluation of Reformed Instruction in College Science and Mathematics” at The University of Alabama on Tuesday, April 29, at 12:30 p.m. in room 125 ten Hoor Hall on the UA campus.
Students, teachers, and other educators from across Alabama will gather on The University of Alabama campus April 25 for the annual PACERS Small Schools Conference. Participants will address issues paramount to small rural schools and will collaborate on the innovative and nationally-recognized community-based approaches to teaching and learning coming out of PACERS’ programs.
The Capstone Engineering Society of The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently announced that Rodney Summerford has assumed the role of national chair.
University of Alabama College of Engineering student April Pitts of Muscle Shoals, Ala., recently received the Arthur E. Focke LeaderShape Award from the ASM International Foundation.
An open house for the newly completed University of Alabama Library Annex will be held on Wednesday, April 30 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
The University of Alabama honored its top students of 2002-2003 for their scholarship and leadership today during the Tappings and Awards Ceremony on the Mound, the highlight of UA’s annual Honors Week, April 14-18.
A truck mounted fuel-cell auxiliary power unit, developed by The University of Alabama College of Engineering in a partnership with the U.S. Army TACOM National Automotive Center, Ballard Power Systems, and Freightliner LLC, recently was awarded the Automotive Engineering International Tech 2003 Award for being one of the top technologies on display at the Society of Automotive Engineers’ World Congress in Detroit, Mich.