Burt Rutan, designer of SpaceShipOne, the world’s first privately funded spacecraft, and David King, director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, will be the keynote speakers for the inaugural Gloria and John L. Blackburn Academic Symposium at The University of Alabama on Saturday, Aug. 25.
The University of Alabama’s RISE Program will hold its annual commencement ceremony Thursday, July 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the Stallings Center on the UA campus.
The Everywoman Book Club, sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center at The University of Alabama, will meet on Thursday, July 26 at noon at The Globe Restaurant to discuss “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia” by Elizabeth Gilbert.
A University of Alabama astronomer has co-developed a new way to characterize galaxy features that is giving scientists additional insight into how galaxies formed and changed over time, according to a paper published in the June 2007 issue of The Astronomical Journal.
Some of the Southeast’s best stone crafters will teach participants how Native Americans transformed ordinary rocks into useful tools and arrowheads during the July 14 Flintknapping Class and Gathering at The University of Alabama’s Moundville Archaeological Park.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center will sponsor a Sexual Harassment, Assault & Rape Prevention (SHARP) self-defense course open to female students, faculty and staff Aug. 14-15 from 1-5 p.m. at the University Recreation Center.
The Every Woman Book Club, sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center at The University of Alabama, will meet on Thursday, June 28 at noon at The Globe Restaurant to discuss “All Out of Faith, Southern Women on Spirituality,” edited by Wendy Reed and Jennifer Horne.
The University of Alabama Center for Ethics & Social Responsibility, the Alabama Poverty Project, Impact: An Alabama Student Service Initiative and the UAB Center for Urban Affairs are co-sponsoring “To Whom Much is Given,” a statewide conference on service learning in higher education, Sept. 27-28 at the Bryant Conference Center in Tuscaloosa.
The deadline to register for the Lean Accounting Conference, hosted by the Alabama Productivity Center/Alabama Technology Network at The University of Alabama, is June 22.
News conference to announce findings of study, “The Costs of Child Abuse vs. Child Abuse Prevention: Alabama’s Experience.”