Speaking today at The University of Alabama’s winter commencement ceremony, Brandt Ayers, editor and publisher of The Anniston Star, said that the Baby Boomer generation, like the World War II generation, should be considered great for what they have accomplished.
The journalism and mass communication programs in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama have successfully completed a re-accreditation process that has solidified their rankings among the top programs in the country.
SPEAKER Brandt Ayers, Editor and Publisher of The Anniston Star For the past three generations, the Ayers’ family has run The Anniston Star, which the Columbia Journalism Review recently ranked among the 35 best newspapers in the nation. Time Magazine has twice named it “one of the best small newspapers in the United States.” Ayers,
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing Inc. selected a University of Alabama nursing professor as one of six nurses to review items used as part of the National Council Licensure Examination for nurses.
The University of Alabama’s RISE program will be involved in several holiday-related events/fundraisers, including a ornament signing session by former Alabama football coach Gene Stallings.
Brandt Ayers, editor and publisher of The Anniston Star, will be the featured speaker for The University of Alabama’s winter commencement ceremony Monday, Dec. 16 at Coleman Coliseum on the UA campus.
At noon on Dec. 13, in the Willard Auditorium of the DCH Educational Tower, Dr. Robert Kreisberg, a physician and dean of The University of South Alabama’s college of medicine, will deliver a lecture entitled “Hormone Replacement Therapy: Paradise Lost.”
French specialist, Dr. Damien Zanone, from the University Stendhal in Grenoble, France, will give a lecture on Dec. 11 at 1 p.m. in the Anderson Room of the Ferguson Center on The University of Alabama campus.
Results from the first six months of experiments at KamLAND, an underground neutrino detector in central Japan, show that anti-neutrinos emanating from nearby nuclear reactors are “disappearing,” which indicates they have mass and can oscillate, or change, from one type to another.
The speaking engagement outlined in a University of Alabama news release entitled “Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor will bring Freedom of Information message to UA” and released on Monday, Dec. 2, 2002, has been canceled because of a scheduling conflict.