Incoming students at The University of Alabama will be celebrating the start of their college careers in the 2008 Capstone Convocation – a solemn and inspiring occasion – Tuesday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. in Coleman Coliseum.
Telehealth – the use of state-of-the-art telecommunications and computer technology to help health-care professionals – will be one of the key topics at a conference on the future of health care in the United States on Thursday, Sept. 4, and Friday, Sept. 5, at The University of Alabama.
SATURDAY, AUG. 9, 2008, 9 a.m.
COLEMAN COLISEUM
The University of Alabama’s summer commencement ceremonies will be held Saturday, Aug. 9 at 9 a.m. in Coleman Coliseum on the UA campus.
The University of Alabama’s RISE Program will hold its annual commencement ceremony Thursday, July 24 at 6 p.m. at the Stallings Center on the UA campus.
Seven players from The University of Alabama Wheelchair Athletics program are going to Beijing to play in the 2008 Paralympic Games in September.
Each summer, about 25 high school students are selected to participate in an intensive nine-day journalism workshop on The University of Alabama campus. This year’s Multicultural Journalism Workshop marks a special occasion – its 25th anniversary.
The EveryWoman Book Club, sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center at The University of Alabama, will meet on Thursday, July 24 at noon at The Globe Restaurant to discuss the book “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen.
Photographs featuring the creative work of Greene County youth taking part in the Black Belt 100 Lenses project through The University of Alabama will be on display in Eutaw at the William McKinley Branch Courthouse starting Thursday, July 17 with an opening reception from 5-7 p.m.
The Alabama Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, known as Alabama EPSCoR, will provide networking and partnership development opportunities for academic institutions, government agencies, industry and small business representatives at the 2008 Annual Alabama EPSCoR Conference and Stakeholder Symposium July 22-24.