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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The University of Alabama will host the fourth annual “Race and Place” conference, organized by the history department, March 10-12.
The University of Alabama’s department of American studies is hosting the second annual Rose Gladney Lecture on Justice and Social Change March 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Alabama Institute for Manufacturing Excellence (AIME) Building located at 720 Second St. behind the Ferguson Student Center on campus.
The University of Alabama Classics Program will host the third annual Latin Day for Alabama high school students on Friday, March 4, in the Ferguson Center from 9:10 a.m.-2:15 p.m.
The University of Alabama, through the VOTES Coalition, will host the Alabama Collegiate Summit Friday, March 11, from 6:30-9 p.m. and Saturday, March 12, from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. at the UA School of Law.