Student Affairs Hall of Fame Honors Three UA Leaders
Three noted leaders on campus were honored recently for their service to The University of Alabama as 2011 inductees into the UA Student Affairs Hall of Fame.
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Crossroads Center Offers Events at UA for Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month
A monthlong celebration of Hispanic-Latino culture is being held at The University of Alabama through Oct. 20 in events organized by the UA Crossroads Community Center.
UA Homecoming Features ‘The Tradition Rolls On’ Theme
The University of Alabama will welcome students, parents, alumni and visitors to campus during Homecoming Week 2011, to be held Sunday, Oct. 2-Saturday, Oct. 8.
UA Professor’s Book Discusses Key Dissenter in the Spanish Conquest
Among the figures who participated in and later wrote about the Spanish Conquest of the New World, one stands out as a passionate and sometimes abrasive champion of the native population – Bartolomé de las Casas. This priest, historian, writer and activist stands as the passionate focus of the scholarship of Dr. Lawrence Clayton, University of Alabama professor of history, and forms the subject of a book that offers insight into the conquest.
UA Hosts Family Weekend, More than 3,000 Expected to Attend
More than 3,000 family members of University of Alabama students will visit campus during Family Weekend Friday-Sunday, Sept. 16-18.
UA Honors College Presents Documentary on ‘Invisible Children’ of African Conflict
The University of Alabama Honors College Assembly is partnering with the student organization Apwonjo to host the NPO Invisible Children 2011 “Tony” Tour on Monday, Sept. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in 127 Biology.
UA Nursing Scholars Named American Academy of Nursing Fellows
Dr. Norma Cuellar and Dr. Susan Gaskins, professors in The University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing, will be inducted into the American Academy of Nursing Fellowship during a formal ceremony at the AAN’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. in October.
UA’s Garner to Receive American Dietetic Association’s Highest Award
Margaret Pipkin Garner, assistant dean for health education and outreach in The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences, has been named the 2011 recipient of the American Dietetic Association’s highest honor, the Marjorie Hulsizer Copher Award.
Two UA Engineering Professors Named Fellows by ASME
Two University of Alabama mechanical engineering professors have been elected as Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Mason to Head Alabama Productivity Center at UA
Dr. J. Barry Mason, professor of business administration, who will step down Aug. 16 as dean of the Culverhouse College of Commerce at The University of Alabama, has been tapped by incoming Dean J. Michael Hardin to be the interim director of the Alabama Productivity Center.