Distinguished bioethicist Dr. Glenn McGee will be the keynote speaker at the inaugural Susan and Gaylon McCollough Medical Scholars Forum to be held Sept.13-14 at The University of Alabama. McGee will present his lecture, “Generation Genome” Friday, Sept.13 at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of Morgan Hall on the UA campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Aileen Kilgore Henderson, author of “Tenderfoot Teacher: Letters from the Big Bend, 1952-1954,” will be reading and signing copies of her book at a reception on Tuesday, Sept. 24 on The University of Alabama campus.
Freshman composition has a new look this fall for some 600 University of Alabama freshmen who are enrolled in a course that includes Web-based readings, online essays and multi-media materials.
Students invited to attend The University of Alabama’s Capstone Scholars Day on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2003, will receive a renewable scholarship of at least $1,250 per year for four years, if the student maintains a cumulative 3.0 GPA at the University.
The University of Alabama’s new Freshman Seminars are the latest addition to its efforts to attract and retain freshmen at the Capstone.
University of Alabama paleontologists recovered the fossilized remains of an 80-million-year-old water reptile, pictured above, from a Greene County site. This mosasaur, known as a Clidastes, was discovered in early June near the Tombigbee River and is one of the most complete dinosaur-age fossils ever recovered in the eastern U.S., said Dr. Ed Hooks, curator of vertebrate paleontology at UA’s Alabama Museum of Natural History.
Housing affordability in Alabama fell for the second consecutive quarter in 2002, according to numbers released by the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
Alabamians are, or at least claim to be, a Christian people. Today over 90% of our population practices Christianity in some form. This means that the vast majority of Alabamians believe that Judeo-Christian values found in the Bible should be a moral compass to guide their lives. However, in one glaring case Alabamians have strayed far from the direction that God’s moral compass provides. When one examines the suffering and hardship Alabama’s tax structure inflicts on the poorest and neediest among us, one cannot fail to see the enormous gap that exists between what God’s moral values demand and what we have allowed our state to become. The time has come for those of us who have allowed this to happen to acknowledge it (painful as that will be), and then use the gifts, powers and opportunities that God has blessed us with to set things right.
Representatives of the insurance industry from around the globe will gather at NorthRiver Yacht Club in Tuscaloosa on Thursday, Sept. 5, to participate in a black-tie dinner and other activities announcing the establishment of the John S. and Mary Louise Loftis Bickley Endowed Teaching Chair in Insurance and Financial Services at The University of Alabama.
University of Alabama graduate and 2nd Lt. Christopher Chaney, a platoon leader with the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment serving in Afghanistan, recently presented an American Flag flown over the Regimental Headquarters in Afghanistan to Lt. Col. Neil C. Reinwald Jr., UA professor of military science and commander of UA Army Battalion ROTC.