The University of Alabama Community Service Center’s 2009 Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive concludes this week with Brown’s Corner Dueling Piano Bar hosting a benefit at 9 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19, the last day of the drive.
Thanks to grants from the National Science Foundation, the NASA Alabama Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and the Lindbergh Foundation, Dr. Amy Lang continues researching what designers of aircraft and underwater vehicles could learn by imitating nature’s design of shark skins.
The grand opening of the Apple Campus Store at The University of Alabama will be held Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 11:45 a.m. in the Ferguson Center SupeStore.
A chemistry professor, whose discovery of a way to dissolve cellulose forms the basis of new research efforts to turn trees into valuable chemicals and fuels, is the winner of The University of Alabama’s Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor award.
“A Night of Experimental Jazz,” an opportunity to experience freestyle jazz and view ways that music can directly correspond with visual art and design, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in 1093 Shelby Hall at The University of Alabama.
The University of Alabama Rural Health Institute for Clinical and Translational Science was recognized for its work with the Governor’s KidCheck Health Initiative during an earlier ceremony at the State Capitol. The ceremony was hosted by Gov. Bob Riley and the Alabama Power Co.
Trying to stay in touch with family members but being out-of-touch with technology can be frustrating for older people. Now, thanks to a University of Alabama community project called FIT 4 Retirement that is not the case for a group of older people in Tuscaloosa.
“Beginning, Being Again,” a multimeda, improvisational performance featuring a collective of artists drawn from The University of Alabama and the central Alabama artistic community, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at the Allen Bales Theatre on the UA campus.
The advisory board of The University of Alabama International Honors Program will host a public lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 5 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library featuring a presentation by Dr. Simanti Lahiri, UA assistant professor of political science.
The Alabama Productivity Center and the Alabama Technology Network announces nine organizations as recipients of the 2009 Alabama Quality Award, the state’s highest honor for quality and performance excellence.