Events

UA’s Honors Week 2015 to Include Tapping on the Mound

The University of Alabama will recognize the achievement of outstanding students and faculty during Honors Week activities on campus from Monday, March 30, to Sunday, April 5. The Tapping on the Mound ceremony, a tradition since the early 1900s, will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 3, on the Mound at the west side of the UA Quad (rain location will be Moody Music Building Concert Hall). University honoraries Omicron Delta Kappa, Mortar Board, Blue Key National Honor Society and Anderson Society will induct members.

UA Town Hall Features Discussion of Alabama Education

“Making the Grade: Reforming Alabama’s Education” will be the topic of a University of Alabama Honors College Town Hall meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, March 30, in the Ferguson Center Forum on The University of Alabama campus.

UA’s Gorgas House Museum Develops New Civil War Exhibit

The University of Alabama’s Gorgas House Museum will display a new exhibit on the Gorgas family and their experiences during the Civil War beginning on April 3, the day before the 150th anniversary of the burning of UA’s campus by Union forces.

Annual Civil War Lectures Series to be Held at UA

A series of lectures about the Civil War — the 19th annual J.C.C. Sanders Lecture Series — will be held Saturday, April 4, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Grand Gallery of the Alabama Museum of Natural History on The University of Alabama campus.

USAA Executive to Address UA Students

Wendi Strong will give the 2015 Koten Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by The University of Alabama’s Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations.

UA’s Rural Health Conference Features Cooking Challenge

This year’s Rural Health Conference, slated for April 17 at The University of Alabama, will feature a “cooking challenge.”

UA Hosts Statewide High School Personal Finance Challenge

The University of Alabama College of Human Environmental Sciences department of consumer sciences will host the Alabama Personal Finance Challenge April 14.

UA’s Panhellenic Association Hosts 2015 Easter Egg Hunt

The Alabama Panhellenic Association will host its annual Easter egg hunt for the Tuscaloosa community on the front lawn of the President’s Mansion Sunday, March 29. 


UA Hovercraft Team Preparing for Race Against Rival, Others

A team of University of Alabama engineering students are set to race in the Third Annual University Hoverbowl Challenge near Tuscaloosa March 28.

UA Engineering Students Host Rocket Contest at Nearby Middle School

A water-rocket contest among middle-school students March 24 is the culmination of an outreach effort by students from The University of Alabama.