Events

‘How to Change the World’ Author Comes to UA to Meet Honors Students, University Community

What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change, says author David Bornstein. They are the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up – and remake the world for the better, Bornstein says in his latest book, “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas” (Oxford University Press, 2003).

UA Students for Gender Justice to Meet

University of Alabama Students for Gender Justice will hold their first meeting Monday, Sept. 27, at 5 p.m. in Ferguson Center room 301-A.

Ceremony Planned to Dedicate Markers for Slave Graves on UA Campus

A ceremony to dedicate new markers for the graves of two slaves buried on The University of Alabama campus is planned for Wednesday, Sept. 29 from 6-7 p.m. The program, sponsored by the Coalition for Change, the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusiveness, and the Office of the Vice President for Community Affairs at UA, will be at the gravesite next to the Biology Building on Hackberry Lane.

UA Theta Chi Fraternity to Assists in Hurricane Ivan Cleanup

Members of Theta Chi fraternity at The University of Alabama will travel to the Alabama Gulf Coast on Friday, Sept. 24, to help in the cleanup process for victims of Hurricane Ivan.

UA Orman-Harris Lecture to Focus on Digital Technology

Consumers face more and more electronic financial transactions every day – either by choice or by necessity. Sorting these out, and knowing what consumer protections apply, can be confusing.

American Chemical Society President-Elect Visits UA

On Friday, Sept. 24, the president-elect of the American Chemical Society will visit The University of Alabama to talk about how to make the next generation of students more “chemically literate.”

UA Welcomes Acclaimed Historian Forrest McDonald for Book Signing and Reading

University of Alabama Libraries will welcome acclaimed historian and author Forrest McDonald for a book talk and signing of his most recent book, “Recovering the Past: a historian’s memoir,” at 4 p.m. Sept. 23 on the second floor of Gorgas Library on the UA campus.

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Carl Wieman to Lecture at UA

Nobel Prize-winner and internationally renowned physicist Carl E. Wieman will be at The University of Alabama on Sept. 21 and 22. Wieman will give a presentation on the work that won him the Nobel Prize, “Bose-Einstein Condensation: Quantum Weirdness at the Lowest Temperature in the Universe,” on Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. in 107 Shelby Hall on the UA campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.