Steve Lerner, author of “Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States,” will speak at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, at 205 Smith Hall (Alabama Museum of Natural History) on The University of Alabama campus.
The A.S. Williams III Americana Collection will open officially for public viewing during a ceremony at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, in Room 301 of Gorgas Library, part of The University of Alabama Libraries.
The program “Buddhism in Motion: Perspectives on the Cultural History of a Major World Philosophy” will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, in 205 Gorgas Library on The University of Alabama campus.
The exhibition “William Bradford Huie @100” will open Tuesday, Nov. 9, at The University of Alabama’s W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library starting at 5 p.m. with a talk and reception to begin at 5:30 p.m.
Dr. Derk Pereboom, a professor at Cornell University, will speak Nov. 9 at The University of Alabama on “Meaning in Life and the Illusion of Free Will” at 7:30 p.m. in room 205 of Smith Hall.
The University of Alabama’s Bama Grad Expo will bring 50 top prospective graduate students from across the country to campus Nov. 5-7.
The University of Alabama Women’s and Men’s Wheelchair Basketball Teams will open their seasons Saturday, Oct. 30, playing in the second annual Eagle Classic Tournament at the Student Recreation Center.
The University of Alabama Community Service Center and Bama Dining are sponsoring a Hunger Banquet on Monday, Nov. 1, at 6:30 p.m. in Burke Dining Hall as part of the annual Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive competition.
The University of Alabama will pay tribute to Autherine Lucy Foster, James Hood and the late Vivian Malone Jones, the three African-American students whose enrollment represented UA’s first steps toward desegregation, at the dedication of the Malone-Hood Plaza and Autherine Lucy Clock Tower at historic Foster Auditorium on Nov. 3.
Astronomers invite the public to Moundville to look through University of Alabama telescopes at star clusters and clouds of dust and gas between stars, known as nebulae, on Friday, Oct. 29 from 7 until 10 p.m.