Students and community members will have the chance to learn how incarceration in the U.S. is changing and what law enforcement agencies are doing to modernize, adapt, and respond to the issues facing offenders in jails and prisons during a community panel Wedneday, Oct. 19, at The University of Alabama.
With Halloween right around the corner, it’s a fitting time to discover some of the more eerie aspects of The University of Alabama’s history.
Gentle exercise on a wheel can have beneficial effects – on fruit flies. That finding may be good news for humans, too. A new study led by The University of Alabama suggests that a device called the TreadWheel can be used to study the benefits of exercise on Drosophila — fruit flies.
The University of Alabama’s Cuba Week kicks off Monday, Oct. 24 at 8:30 a.m. at Bryant-Jordan Hall on the UA campus.
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby’s town hall visit has been canceled. The lecture, which was originally scheduled for Oct. 24 as a part of the Blount Speaker Series, may be rescheduled for a later date.
Laurence Leamer, a New York Times bestselling author, will present the 13th Rose Gladney Lecture on Justice and Social Change at The University of Alabama at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, in Gorgas Library, room 205, on the UA campus.
Ten faculty members at The University of Alabama will take part in the 2016-17 Southeastern Conference Faculty Travel Program, which provides travel support and encourages collaboration among colleagues at other SEC member institutions.
Doug McCraw, art collector and founder of the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, arts district FATVillage, will discuss “The Creative Entrepreneur: The Nexus of Art and Technology” during the Helen Crow Mills and John Carroll Mills Lecture at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 21, in room 3111 of the Ferguson Center on The University of Alabama campus.
The University of Alabama School of Music’s Huxford Symphony Orchestra will perform in its second concert of the 2016-2017 season Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Moody Music Building Concert Hall.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama’s department of communicative disorders is providing free hearing screenings to students, faculty and staff on Oct. 13. From 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., the Hear Here Alabama truck will be set up behind Gorgas Library. Dr. Marcia Hay-McCutcheon, an auditory expert at UA and associate professor of communicative disorders, said