Vietnam War veteran and national expert on veterans’ matters Floyd “Shad” Meshad will be on campus Thursday, Sept. 23, to help The University of Alabama launch the new VETS — Veterans Education and Transition Support — initiative.
University of Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy conducted a high-tech vision screening for the 100,000th child screened by Impact Alabama’s FocusFirst Initiative on Wednesday, Sept.15, at Tuscaloosa Head Start.
The University of Alabama Faculty-in-Residence Series will begin Monday, Sept. 20, with a presentation from Irish poet Joan McBreen at 6 p.m. in 208 Gordon Palmer.
The Manderson Graduate School of Business at The University of Alabama recently welcomed the MBA class of 2012 to campus. At 93 students, the MBA class of 2012 is the third consecutive class with record enrollment.
U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will be the keynote speaker at an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee on Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 3:30 p.m. in The University of Alabama Law School McMillan Lecture Hall, rooms 287/288.
A total of 387 students enrolled during the 2010 summer term at The University of Alabama were named to the Dean’s List with an academic record of 3.5 or above, or the President’s List with an academic record of 4.0, all As.
For the third consecutive year, The University of Alabama has awarded 20 tuition-only scholarships of $2,500 each through a $50,000 grant from the Osher Reentry Scholarship Program.
A campus ideas session 16 months ago among a group of strongly motivated students has produced two opportunities for the people of Alabama to weigh candidates for governor during the 2010 election.
In honor of Constitution Day, The University of Alabama will host a student debate Friday, Sept. 17 at 1 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Theater on “Is the Defense of Marriage Act Constitutional?”
Lisa Elizondo, a University of Alabama junior and McNair Scholar who spent her summer collecting oral histories of Chicano-rights activists, will present “Off the Border: Mexican-Americans in Washington State” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, in 125 ten Hoor on the UA campus.