The University of Alabama’s Black Faculty and Staff Association will host an “Evening Conversation with Paul R. Jones,” from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 in Gorgas Library, room 205, on the UA campus as part of its BFSA Presents lecture series.
The melodic morphing of a violin, clarinet and piano trio will fill the concert hall of The University of Alabama’s Moody Music Building starting at 2 p.m. Feb. 22 as the Verdehr Trio performs the next concert of the 2008-2009 Celebrity Series.
The University of Alabama Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering is presenting a program on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. to commemorate Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of his major work “On the Origin of Species.”
The University of Alabama Crossroads Community Center invites the campus and community to participate in the observance of African-American Heritage Month events throughout February.
University Libraries will host a concert in honor of Felix Mendelssohn’s 200th birthday in the J. Wray and Joan Billingsley Pearce Foyer on the second floor of Gorgas Library, Tuesday, Feb. 3, from 2- 4 p.m. on The University of Alabama campus.
Dr. Charles S. Carver, an expert on personality and individual differences, will discuss “Two Layers of the Mind: Serotonergic Function and What Impulsive Aggression and Depression Have in Common” as the guest speaker for the Basowitz Memorial Lecture hosted by The University of Alabama psychology department Friday, Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m. in 208 Gordon Palmer Hall.
The University of Alabama’s Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity will host their fifth annual “Fade to Black” social event to raise money for the March of Dimes Foundation on Saturday, Jan. 31 at 9:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Ballroom on campus.
The University of Alabama’s department of theatre and dance presents Euripides’ “Medea” from Tuesday, Feb. 10, to Sunday, Feb. 15, in the Allen Bales Theatre on Stadium Drive in the UA Theatre District.
Trauma and life surrounding the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans will be the subject of a reading and panel discussion featuring noted scholar and author Dr. Jerry W. Ward Jr. Feb. 4-5 at The University of Alabama.
The University of Alabama Undergraduate Social Work Organization, or USWO, will host Terance B. Lester, motivational speaker and author of “U-Turn: The Teenage Turnaround,” Tuesday, Jan. 27 at 11:30 a.m. in 104 Little Hall on the UA campus.