The University of Alabama Center for Economic Development, Alabama Trails Commission and Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs are sponsoring the second annual conference highlighting recreational trails in Alabama on Nov.1-2.
More than two dozen poets will read from their work during the Slash Pine Press’s fourth annual festival Friday, Oct. 12, and Saturday, Oct. 13, in venues at The University of Alabama and in downtown Tuscaloosa.
New York artist and University of Alabama alumnus Thornton Willis will appear at an artist reception and question-and-answer session from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art on the UA campus.
On Sept. 25 The University of Alabama will host Dr. Simon Keller, associate professor of philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, who will lecture on “Understanding Skepticism about Climate Change” at 7:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall on the UA campus.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering will host Engineering Day, or E-Day, an open house for high-school students and their families, Thursday, Oct. 11, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m.
The University of Alabama is hosting Family Weekend, Friday-Sunday, Sept. 21-23, with more than 3,500 family members of UA students expected to visit campus.
Dr. Tommy Bice, Alabama’s State Superintendent of Education, will speak at a public forum on special education at the offices of United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham Monday, Sept. 24, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Katherine Newman, renowned scholar and the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, will visit The University of Alabama campus to speak about the impact of Alabama’s tax policy on the working poor.
The University of Alabama School of Social Work will open its 2012 Fall Colloquium Series Monday, Sept. 24, with guest lecturer Kimble Forrister.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the reopening of the renovated first floor of Rodgers Science and Engineering Library will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, on the first floor of Rodgers, part of The University of Alabama Libraries.