Dr. Samuel Joseph Strada, dean of the College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama, will be the featured speaker for the 10th annual Susan and Gaylon McCollough Medical Scholars Forum Feb. 24-25 in the Shelby Hall rotunda on The University of Alabama campus.
Douglas Blackmon, former bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal, will visit The University of Alabama Feb. 23 to speak about his Pulitzer Prize winning book, “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.”
Gorgas Library on The University of Alabama campus will play host to the Miniature Book Society’s national traveling exhibit from Wednesday, Feb. 15, to Sunday, April 15.
An exhibit of photographs produced by Holt High School students in partnership with The University of Alabama Honors College is on display in Nott Hall Gallery.
Cullen Murphy, editor at large for Vanity Fair, will give a lecture about his latest book, “God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World,” at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 22 in room 205 of Gorgas Library on The University of Alabama campus.
Entrepreneurship Week 2012 in Alabama will be observed Feb. 20-24, and the entrepreneurial forces at The University of Alabama have put together a comprehensive program.
A new Miss University of Alabama will be selected Saturday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. at the Bama Theatre in downtown Tuscaloosa.
The University of Alabama Capstone International Center will celebrate the 26th annual Sakura Festival in recognition of the Tuscaloosa tornado and the Japan earthquake with the theme of shinrai, or reliance.
A professor of oceanography who studies life on and below the ocean’s floor will give a public talk at The University of Alabama beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14 in Shelby Hall, room 1004.
Dr. Brian Fagan, one of the world’s leading archaeological and historical writers, will visit The University of Alabama campus to give the lecture, “Elixir: Water and Humans over 10,000 years,” Thursday, Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in room 127 of the Biology Building.