Events

UA Start-Up Companies Prep for July 12 Launchpad Presentations

Cell phones that charge wirelessly, orthopedic implants that safely degrade inside the body, and a social network designed to connect those in the construction industry: these are the central concepts behind three University of Alabama start-up companies competing July 12 in a statewide business competition.

UA’s REACH Hosts High-School Students for Pre-College Program

A select group of high-school students who are living in foster care, have been emancipated recently or are wards of the state will have the opportunity to participate in a pre-collegiate summer program at The University of Alabama through the nsoro Foundation of Atlanta.

UA School of Social Work to Hold Brown Bag Lunch, Lecture June 27

The University of Alabama School of Social Work will host an informational brown bag lunch with Dr. Harold Kudler, clinical lead of the Rural Health Program Mid-Atlantic Veterans Integrated Service Network.

Tech Tour to visit UA, Tuscaloosa

The autoXLR8R “TechTour,” a 13-week program to visit several of the region’s top automotive research institutions to refine autoXLR8R’s technologies and work with world-renowned engineers and entrepreneurs, will bring its program to Tuscaloosa and The University of Alabama June 24 and 25.

UA’s Supply Store Hosts Civil Rights Photo Exhibit, Book Signing

More than 20 photographs depicting the civil rights movement will be displayed June 17-28 at The University of Alabama’s Supply Store in the Ferguson Center. The free exhibit, compiled from the archives of The Birmingham News, is sponsored by the UA College of Continuing Studies, The Birmingham News and AL.com. The exhibit will travel the state for the remainder of the year, representatives said.

UA’s Alabama-Cuba Initiative Continues With Play

Seth Panitch, associate professor of theatre at The University of Alabama, will take his play “Alcestis Ascending” on the road this summer to New York City, Havana and Alabama as part of his participation in creative research with the actors and dancers from UA and the Cuban El Instituto Superior de Arte .

UA Hosts Elite Alabama Seniors at Boys State, Girls State

More than 1,000 Alabama high-school seniors will try their hands at politics and community service from Sunday, June 9, to Saturday, June 15, during the 2013 American Legion Alabama Boys State and American Legion Auxiliary Alabama Girls State conventions on The University of Alabama campus.

UA to Commemorate 50th Anniversary of the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door

Fifty years after the first two African-American students enrolled at The University of Alabama following then Gov. George Wallace’s unsuccessful “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door,” UA will commemorate that historic day and celebrate 50 years of progress with two public events – a program featuring speakers and musical performances on June 11 and an interfaith prayer breakfast on June 7.

UA’s Continuing Studies Sponsors Civil Rights Photo Exhibit

More than 20 photographs depicting the civil rights movement, including many never publicly viewed before, will be displayed June 3-14 at The University of Alabama’s Bryant Conference Center.

UA’s CCHS Event to Look at Diversity in Medicine

The public is invited to learn how the face of medicine has changed over the years at an upcoming symposium hosted by The University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences.