The University of Alabama Graduate School will conduct a Graduate School Preview Day on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 3 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Theater on campus. The purpose of this event is to provide information to undergraduate students and other prospective graduate students who are interested in pursuing a graduate degree at UA.
University of Alabama student Courtney Dreibelbis of Mobile has been selected as the recipient of a 2002-2003 Gilman International Scholarship.
Officials are investigating an arson at Delta Sigma Theta sorority house, located at 430 Smith-Woods Circle on The University of Alabama campus. A fire alarm sounded at 4:47 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 22. UA Police Department and Tuscaloosa Fire Department responded at 4:50 a.m. The fire was quickly extinguished. No one was injured in the fire. Eight women were in the building at the time of the fire. Law enforcement and fire officials are investigating the incident.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded The University of Alabama a $500,000 grant to create a research center focusing on the mental health needs of the nation’s soaring elderly population.
The University of Alabama National Alumni Association’s 2003 Tour Program will span the globe with a record 23 tour packages offered to sites including Cuba, the Canadian Rockies, Ireland, Europe, and Mandarin China.
John Keeble, prose writer and holder of the Coal Royalty Chair in Creative Writing in The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences for the fall 2002 semester, and Dr. Hank Lazer, poet, English professor and assistant vice president for UA’s undergraduate programs in the Office for Academic Affairs, will kick off the 2002-03 Bankhead Visiting Writers Series.
Technology’s most recent advancements are making their way into the classroom. University of Alabama students involved in television and film classes will be some of the first to reap the benefits.
University of Alabama Interim President Barry Mason will meet with media at 10:15 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 20. This “back-to-school” news conference will take place at the Welcome Tent on the Southeast corner of the Quad (across from Gallalee Hall).
As the nation approaches the one-year mark in its on-going war against terrorism, a University of Alabama military and international relations expert says it’s a fight that “we’re certainly not winning.
The civil and environmental engineering department at The University of Alabama College of Engineering will host the 2002 Alabama Mining Institute on Sept. 5-6, in room 101 of the Tom Bevill Building on the UA campus.