A group of University of Alabama advertising and public relations students were recently honored on campus with a scholarship ceremony for their work on an advertising campaign for a former UA student and entrepreneur.
Greensboro East High School, in collaboration with The University of Alabama, will be the first high school in Alabama to establish a state-of-the-art Math Technology Learning Center. The center replaces the traditional classroom lecturer with computer-assisted learning and one-on-one tutoring.
An author who has written about a key Revolutionary War battle that was later the backdrop for “The Patriot,” starring Mel Gibson, will give a talk at The University of Alabama on Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in 30 ten Hoor Hall.
A contest to find the best and brightest students to form The University of Alabama College Bowl Team will be held Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 6 p.m. in the Heritage Room of the Ferguson Center.
The Jerry C. Pruett Memorial Endowed Scholarship, given within The University of Alabama’s prestigious Computer-Based Honors Program (CBHP), was awarded to junior Adam Byram of Florence.
The University of Alabama’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series will host authors Dr. Donald Revell, professor of English and creative writing at the University of Utah, and Joel Brouwer, assistant professor of poetry at UA, on Jan. 16, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. in the Morgan Hall Auditorium on The University of Alabama campus.
The National Academy of Sciences today (Friday, Jan. 10) named Dr. Walter Enders of The University of Alabama a co-recipient of its 2003 Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War.
Tom Bennett, Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor and a national freedom of information leader, will give a lecture at The University of Alabama on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2003 in Room 180 (Knox Hagood Room) of Reese Phifer Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Giant jets of subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light have been found coming from thousands of galaxies across the universe, but always from elliptical galaxies or galaxies in the process of merging — until now. Dr. Bill Keel, professor of astronomy at The University of Alabama, led a research team that discovered a huge jet coming from a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way.
Dr. Trevor Bain, professor emeritus of management at the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at The University of Alabama, has just completed a three-week assignment in Taiwan as part of the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Senior Specialist Program.