Dr. Karen Cartee, professor of advertising and public relations at The University of Alabama, says the negative campaign ads that currently are running on television for the governor’s race primaries will continue.
Dr. Andrew Sorensen gave his last public speech as president of The University of Alabama during the Capstone’s spring commencement ceremonies, held today on the UA campus.
The University of Alabama awarded some 2,250 degrees at spring commencement exercises held Friday, May 17, in Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.
University of Alabama students Kristina Marie West of Tuscaloosa and James Butler Myers of Mobile will receive the Intermark/Myatt Harvill Endowed Scholarship for the 2002-2003 academic year.
Dr. Kurtis Schaeffer, an assistant professor of Asian religious studies at The University of Alabama and a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, recently was chosen as one of 15 recipients in the inaugural national competition for the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship.
Sixteen members of The University of Alabama chapter of Sigma Tau Delta recently participated in the 2002 Convention of the International English Honor Society in Boise, Idaho.
Friday, May 17, 2002, Coleman Coliseum
Dr. Beth Bennett, associate professor of communication studies in The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences (C&IS), recently received the C&IS Board of Visitors Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr. J. Barry Mason, dean of the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at The University of Alabama since 1988, has been named interim president of the University. His appointment, unanimously approved today by the UA Board of Trustees, is effective with the departure of President Andrew Sorensen, who will leave shortly to become president of The University of South Carolina.
Christopher Dean Bottoms, a University of Alabama senior double majoring in dance and pre-dental biology, will showcase a dance he choreographed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 2002.