The University of Alabama Career Center will bring together students, alumni and employers for the 2003 Career EXPO to be held Wednesday, Feb. 12, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Bryant Conference Center on campus.
Applications are currently being accepted for rural medical programs at The University of Alabama, and deadlines are soon approaching.
George Hopson doesn’t consider himself a rocket scientist. The University of Alabama graduate claims to be “just a mechanical engineer who likes to analyze how things work.” And he’s been doing just that for 40 years at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
Dr. Robert Witt has been named president of The University of Alabama. Witt comes to UA from the University of Texas at Arlington where he has served as president since 1995.
A Civil War expert lauded for his ability to relay the impact the war had on private citizens, as well as soldiers, will give a talk at The University of Alabama on Thursday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in 30 ten Hoor Hall.
Nursing students graduating from The University of Alabama in May achieved a 100 percent passage rate on the national licensure exam for registered nurses, the test that qualifies them to practice.
The 2003 Miss University of Alabama scholarship program competition will be held Saturday, Feb. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Ferguson Center ballroom on the UA campus.
Diane McWhorter, whose searing personal history of the Birmingham civil rights struggle, “Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution,” earned a Pulitzer Prize, will receive the 2003 Clarence Cason Writing Award from the journalism department at The University of Alabama on Thursday, March 20.
The State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame will induct seven individuals and honor two projects and two corporations/institutions during a ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2003 at the Auburn University Hotel and Dixon Conference Center.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series, now in its fourth year, is a significant part of The University of Alabama’s celebration of, and dedication to, the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.