UA Wins 2013 Beat Auburn, Beat Hunger Competition
The University of Alabama won the 2013 Beat Auburn Beat Hunger Food Drive by collecting 299,398 pounds of food to top Auburn University’s collection of 169,702 pounds of food.
Events
UA’s Circle K Student Group Offers Luminaries on the Quad
The University of Alabama Circle K student organization will host its annual Luminaries on the Quad event from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8. During this community service leadership project, Circle K members arrange thousands of luminary candles on the Quad between Denny Chimes and Gorgas Library and along University Boulevard. The event is free and open to the public.
UA’s Eta Sigma Gamma Highlights Dangers of Secondhand Smoke in ‘Flash Mob’ Event
Students in The University of Alabama’s health education honor society Eta Sigma Gamma will illustrate the dangers of secondhand smoke in a vivid, and somewhat shocking, way during the annual Great American Smokeout Nov. 21.
UA Professors Will Discuss Sports and Native American Masculinity
The University of Alabama’s Women’s Resource Center and the Alabama Program in Sports Communication will co-host a panel discussion titled “Being Brave: Sports and Native American Masculinity.”
UA Presents Screening of Documentary Celebrating Chinese Culture
The University of Alabama’s Center for Community-Based Partnerships will host a viewing of “The Dialogue,” an hour-long documentary championing international culture, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, at the Global Café on University Boulevard.
‘Shakespeare and American Integration’ Offers Take on UA’s History
Language is the shared medium by which we explore our world, and the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at The University of Alabama has come up with a novel way to talk about American integration.
UA’s Philosophy Series Continues with Talk on Inattentional Blindness
Dr. Ned Block, a leading philosopher of mind, will deliver the next lecture in the 2013-2014 Philosophy Today Series.
UA’s Fashion For Life Features Senior Apparel Design Collections
University of Alabama apparel design students will showcase their senior collections in the fifth annual Fashion for Life at 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, at the Ferguson Center ballroom.
Exhibition, Film about Landmark Smoking Report Featured at UA
A reception will be held Nov. 20 at The University of Alabama commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark 1964 U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health publication and honoring the memory of Dr. Luther Terry, an Alabamian who was the country’s Surgeon General at the time.
UA Library School Will Host Children’s and Young Adult Book Sale
The University of Alabama’s School of Library and Information Studies will hold its annual children’s and young adult book sale Dec. 4-6.