The University of Alabama’s Center for Economic Development is coordinating a two-day conference that will highlight the benefits of recreational trails in Alabama. The Alabama Trails Commission, Alabama State Parks and the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs are co-sponsors.
The University of Alabama Forensic Council will hold a showcase event in preparation for its national championship tournament in April.
Dr. Jonathan Holloway, professor of history and African-American studies at Yale University, will serve as the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Realizing the Dream Distinguished Lecturer.
Award-winning National Public Radio journalist Michele Norris will deliver the 2014 Frank A. Nix Lecture, a program of The University of Alabama’s Blackburn Institute.
Hamilton Bloom, a junior from Montgomery majoring in history and political science, was elected president of The University of Alabama Student Government Association for the 2014-2015 term.
The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce will host the second annual Southeastern Conference MBA Case Study Competition April 3-5 at various venues across campus.
Dr. Spyros Pavlides, geologist and dean of the Faculty of Sciences at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, will present a lecture on geodynamic characteristics and volcanic activity in the southern Aegean Sea as part of a weeklong visit to The University of Alabama.
The University of Alabama Community Service Center will host the first SERVE Better Together event at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 15. The event is receiving support from the Target Foundation the UA Crossroads Community Center. The goal of the event is to create opportunities for improving intercultural relationships within a UA student body that grows more diverse each year and to promote a spirit of unity on campus and in the community.
The Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review will host a one-day symposium, “The Legacy of 1964: Race and Gender Inequity Fifty Years Later,” April 4 at The University of Alabama School of Law.
Dr. Victoria Raveis, a social gerontologist and medical sociologist, will present “Emergency Preparedness: When Natural Disasters Strike,” at noon Monday in room 104 of Little Hall on The University of Alabama campus.