President F.W. de Klerk, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped bring majority rule to South Africa, will speak at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 17, at Sellers Auditorium in the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.
The public is invited to view Jupiter and the moon in the next sky-viewing session at The University of Alabama on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 8 p.m.
The University of Alabama School of Music’s Celebrity Series will host a concert for all ages with children’s musician Justin Robert at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3 in the concert hall of the Moody Music Building on The University of Alabama campus.
Alabama’s “American Idol” star Ruben Studdard will be a featured guest at the Community Culture Fest on Sunday, Oct. 5 at 5 p.m. The event, sponsored by The University of Alabama Office of Community Affairs and Tuscaloosa Housing Authority, will be held from 2-6 p.m. at McKenzie (Hope VI) Community, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Tuscaloosa.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center will sponsor a screening and discussion of the film “Walkout” on Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Theater as part of Hispanic Latino Heritage Month events on campus.
Dr. Doug Husak, a professor in the philosophy department at Rutgers, will present his lecture “Four Points about Drug Criminalization” at 7:30 p.m. October 2 in room 30 of ten Hoor Hall on The University of Alabama campus as part of the 2008-2009 Philosophy Today lecture series.
Claudia Quigg, founder and executive director of “Baby TALK,” a community engagement program building parent-infant relationships, will speak Thursday, Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. in the Child Development Research Center on The University of Alabama campus.
The University of Alabama’s department of theatre and dance presents the student choreographed “Dance Alabama!” fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30—Thursday, Oct. 2 and at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, in Morgan Auditorium on Colonial Drive in the UA Theatre District.
Five of the state’s leading business and civic leaders will be inducted into the Alabama Business Hall of Fame Friday, Oct. 10 at a black-tie dinner at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.
The University of Alabama Computer-Based Honors Program is reaching a milestone anniversary with the celebration of its 40th anniversary on campus Saturday, Sept. 20.