UA Hosts Tim Wise, Anti-Racist Writer, Wednesday, March 16
The University of Alabama Coalition for Diversity and Inclusiveness is sponsoring a lecture by Tim Wise on Wednesday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Forum.
Events
UA’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Hosts Harryette Mullen
The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series will feature Harryette Mullen for a reading from her latest poetry at noon on March 18 in the Ferguson Center Forum on The University of Alabama campus.
UA Social Work Lecture to Focus on Baby Boomers’ Impact on Federal Budget
Dr. Bruce S. Jansson, professor of social policy at the University of Southern California and noted historian of the U.S. federal budget process, will present “From Boomers to Bust? Some Implications of Boomers’ Rising Costs for American Society in Coming Decades,” Monday, March 14 at noon in 104 Little Hall on The University of Alabama campus.
UA Alumni Association to Host A-Day Weekend Events
The University of Alabama National Alumni Association (NAA) has announced the schedule of Alumni Weekend activities for the Class of 1955 and the Golden Fifties Club (alumni who graduated prior to 1955) to be held during the annual A-Day weekend, March 18-19.
Alice Walker, Author of ‘The Color Purple,’ to Keynote Signs of Race Symposium at UA
Internationally known author Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for “The Color Purple,” will present the opening keynote lecture for “The Signs of Race Series: Women and Others, Racial and Gender Difference in Anglo-American Literature and Culture” at The University of Alabama.
UA’s Dateline Alabama Begins iPod Raffle, Proceeds Go Toward Scholarship
Dateline Alabama, the young adult Web magazine of The University of Alabama, began selling raffle tickets today to win an Apple iPod. Tickets are $1 each and may be purchased on campus in the Ferguson Center March 16 and March 23.
UA Women’s Empowerment Conference to be April 8-9
Graduate and undergraduate women students have an opportunity to develop their leadership skills through a Women’s Empowerment Conference to be held April 8-9 at The University of Alabama.
Visiting Japanese Students Bid Farewell to UA
A “Farewell Ceremony” for visiting nursing students from Japan’s Chiba University will be held Thursday, March 10, at 6:30 p.m. in The University of Alabama Museum of Natural History in Smith Hall.
Top Financial Adviser Stewart Welch to Serve as UA Executive-in-Residence March 17
Stewart Welch, owner of The Welch Group, a comprehensive financial planning firm in Birmingham, will serve as an executive-in-residence Thursday, March 17 for the College of Human Environmental Sciences at The University of Alabama.
Renowned Law Professor to Speak at UA Law School
Cass R. Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and a member of the department of political science, will deliver the Daniel Meador Lecture on Risk and the Law March 8 at 2 p.m. at The University of Alabama School of Law.