Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq., chair of the National Congress of Black Women and former council to the U.S. Congress, will speak at a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 21 at the Capstone Hotel on The University of Alabama campus.
Screenings of the upcoming PBS documentary “Freedom Riders” and the satiric film “CSA” will highlight the 23rd Annual Southern Intellectual History Circle Conference from Thursday, Feb. 24, through Saturday, Feb. 26, at The University of Alabama.
Thomas L. Friedman, internationally renowned author, reporter, and New York Times columnist, will visit The University of Alabama Feb. 22.
The University of Alabama Crossroads Community Center invites the campus and community to participate in a variety of events throughout February during African-American Heritage Month.
Winners of the 2011 University of Alabama entrepreneurship awards will be honored at a Feb. 24 ceremony and reception in the North Zone at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Distance learning students at The University of Alabama are set to compete in a new online fitness challenge beginning Feb. 6. The goals of the six-week UA Online Gets Fit challenge are to get distance learning students moving and improve overall fitness and health knowledge.
The University of Alabama theatre and dance department presents “Flora, the Red Menace,” a musical by the creators of “Chicago” and “Cabaret,” from Monday, Feb. 14, to Sunday, Feb. 20, in the Allen Bales Theatre on Stadium Drive in the UA Theatre District.
A new Miss University of Alabama will be crowned Saturday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Bama Theatre in downtown Tuscaloosa.
The University of Alabama Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team will host the first ever Push for Pink game on Friday, Feb. 4, at 5 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center. The Push for Pink breast cancer awareness game against the University of Illinois women will be a part of UA’s weekend tournament.
Dr. Christopher diCarlo, an advisory fellow with the Center for Inquiry Canada, will present his lecture, “We Are All African: Can Scientific Proof of Our Commonality Save Us?” Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building auditorium on The University of Alabama campus.