A history professor and author of an award winning book on the antebellum slave market will give a public talk at The University of Alabama Thursday, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. in ten Hoor Hall, room 30.
Marquetta L. Goodwine, a historian and founder of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, will be giving a historic presentation at The University of Alabama on Feb. 10 as part of the activities set for African-American Heritage Month.
The University of Alabama’s astronomy department will hold its first free public sky viewing of the spring 2005 season and will focus on Saturn, the Orion Nebula and the comet Machholz at Gallalee Hall on Feb. 4 at 7 p.m.
The University of Alabama’s Alabama Museum of Natural History will host a new traveling exhibit, “Skulls and Skeletons,” Feb. 1-May 15 in Smith Hall, 427 Sixth Ave., on the UA campus.
“True West,” the modern American classic by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Sam Shepard, will be presented at The University of Alabama’s Marian Gallaway Theatre in Rowand-Johnson Hall on Feb. 8-12 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 13 at 2 p.m.
The Alabama Museum of Natural History will host a St. Valentine’s Day dinner, featuring a presentation by California winemaker Victor Hugo Roberts, Feb. 14 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Smith Hall, located near Sixth Avenue on The University of Alabama campus.
The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series welcomes Jesse Lee Kercheval to The University of Alabama on Feb. 3 for a reading from her latest work at 7:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall.
The University of Alabama Career Center will continue its efforts to assist students in the job search process by hosting the Spring 2005 Career Fair on Feb. 16 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Ballroom.
Dr. Temple Grandin, noted author and professor who is known as the “most famous adult with autism in the world,” will be one of the guest speakers at the Alabama Autism Conference, Medical Aspects of Autism Spectrum Disorders, on Feb. 10-11 in the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.
The University of Alabama will be hosting a number of events to recognize February as African-American Heritage Month.