UA LEADS Conference to Help Build Leadership Qualities in Students
The University of Alabama will host the UA LEADS conference from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, in the Ferguson Center.
Events
Physical Effects of Social Isolation Highlights UA Basowitz Lecture
Dr. John T. Cacioppo, the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor and director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, will present the biological explanations for the effects of perceived social isolation during the annual Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture on The University of Alabama campus Friday, Jan. 24.
UA Announces Full Schedule of ‘Realizing the Dream’ Events
For the 25th consecutive year, The University of Alabama and its Realizing the Dream partners present a series of events around the holiday that honors the life and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
UA Health-Career Forum Targets Black Male High-School Students
In an effort to address the primary care physician shortage both in Alabama and nationwide, The University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences is hosting its first forum geared specifically for African-American male high-school students.
UA’s Paul Jones Gallery of Art Opens “Scottsboro Boys” Exhibit
The University of Alabama’s Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art in downtown Tuscaloosa opens today its first exhibit of the year, “Scottsboro Boys: The Fred Hiroshige Photographs” from the Morgan County Archives. It showcases historic photographs on loan from Morgan County that document the 1933 retrial of one of Alabama’s “Scottsboro Boys.”
UA Gallery in Tuscaloosa’s Cultural Arts Center to Showcase Modern Art
An inaugural exhibition of artworks from the collection of University of Alabama alumni Jim and Myra Morgan will open Jan.16 at The University of Alabama Gallery in Tuscaloosa’s Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center. The exhibit, “The Morgan Collection – Selections,” will be displayed through March 7.
Get on Board Day Helps UA Students Make Campus Connections
Students at The University of Alabama are invited to learn about more than 200 student organizations during Get on Board Day: Lock-in Edition, hosted by The SOURCE at UA. The event will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, on the second and third floors of the Ferguson Center on campus.
UA to Host Political Training Program for Campus Women
The University of Alabama’s Women’s Resource Center will host the fourth annual Elect Her-UA Women Win program at 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb 1, in 301 Ferguson Center on campus.
UA’s ALLELE Lecturer to Discuss Evolution’s Impact on Climate Change
Dr. Gregory Retallack, a world-leading expert in fossil plants and soil and a professor of geological sciences at the University of Oregon, will present the next lecture in The University of Alabama’s 2013-2014 ALLELE Lecture series Thursday, Jan. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building Auditorium on the UA campus.
UA Museum Features Video Game Making Workshop
Area high school students will have an opportunity to create their own video game during the first Saturday workshop at the Alabama Museum of Natural History’s GeoTech Lab at The University of Alabama.