Dr. Damon A. Williams, an expert on diversity who has spoken on more than 250 college campuses, will deliver a talk titled “ Higher Education Diversity and the 21st Century Global Economy: A Perfect Storm” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 23, at the Moody Music Building Concert Hall.
University of Alabama students and area residents will once again have the opportunity to bring their business ideas to life as Startup Weekend returns to campus March 27-29.
The University of Alabama equestrian team recently wrapped up its 2014-2015 season with a show at Berry College, where it earned the reserve high point title out of 14 schools entered. The performance was one of numerous high point and reserve high point finishes throughout the season that contributed to their second place ranking in the region in total points for the year, a jump of two places over last year’s ranking.
Work by Bachelor of Fine Arts students in The University of Alabama’s department of art and art history will be displayed March 6-April 3 at the UA Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in downtown Tuscaloosa.
Scientist Rebecca Burch will present a lecture on the chemistry of mammalian semen Thursday, March 5 as part of the Alabama Lectures on Life’s Evolution, or ALLELE, series at The University of Alabama.
The Helen and John Mills Lecture featuring University of Alabama alumnus Robert Abernathy, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Halyard Health Inc., has been cancelled.
Dr. Robert Picard, a professor and director of research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, will speak at 2:30 p.m., today in 118 Graves Hall.
The University of Alabama’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity is sponsoring a Be the Match on Campus bone-marrow registration drive from noon to 6 p.m. Friday, March 6, at the fraternity house, 202 University Blvd. on campus. The event is the fraternity’s second Hadley Drive, which began as a search for a bone-marrow donor match for Hadley Mercer, the infant daughter of UA alumnus and fraternity member Brad Mercer. A match was found for Hadley, but the drive will continue in her honor to help register more potential donors in the hopes of saving more lives.
Robert Abernathy, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Halyard Health, Inc., will present “Transforming a Company” for the Helen Crow Mills and John Carroll Mills Lecture Thursday, March 5 at 3 p.m. in the Mortar Board Room, room 300, of the Ferguson Student Center on campus.
A delegation led by Yasuo Saito, former Japanese Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Russia and France, will visit The University of Alabama March 3 for a lunch and symposium on Japanese society, business, technology and culture.