UA Ice Hockey Team Hosts Military Appreciation Night
The University of Alabama Frozen Tide – the men’s ice hockey club team – will host Military Appreciation night Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. at the Pelham Civic Complex.
Events
Military History Professor to Lecture at UA About Technology at the End of the Middle Ages
Dr. John F. Guilmartin Jr., professor of military history at The Ohio State University, will present the fourth annual Friends of History Lecture, “Gunpowder, the Printing Press and the Death of the Middle Ages” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at 205 Gorgas Library at The University of Alabama.
UA Freshman Engineering Students Present Collaborative ‘Light as Material’ Projects
Freshman engineering students have been hard at work designing working lights to enhance a few areas on The University of Alabama campus. They will present their projects Tuesday, Nov. 10, and Thursday, Nov. 12, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in 240 H.M. Comer Hall.
Experimental Jazz Performance with Top Musicians to Expand UA’s Musical Horizons
“A Night of Experimental Jazz,” an opportunity to experience freestyle jazz and view ways that music can directly correspond with visual art and design, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in 1093 Shelby Hall at The University of Alabama.
Improvised, Multimedia Performance to Inspire Creativity in UA Community
“Beginning, Being Again,” a multimeda, improvisational performance featuring a collective of artists drawn from The University of Alabama and the central Alabama artistic community, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at the Allen Bales Theatre on the UA campus.
International Honors Lecture at UA Looks at Issues of Political Protest
The advisory board of The University of Alabama International Honors Program will host a public lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 5 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library featuring a presentation by Dr. Simanti Lahiri, UA assistant professor of political science.
UA Honors Donors of Limited-Edition Lithographs of Picasso Drawings
A reception marking the gift of 15 lithographs of drawings by the 20th century’s greatest artist, Pablo Picasso, to the art and art history department and The College of Arts and Sciences will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in Gorgas Library at The University of Alabama. The reception is in honor of the donors of the lithographs, Dr. Virginia Rembert Liles, professor emeritus of art and art history, and Raeford Liles.
Professor to Speak on the Jews of India in UA’s Aronov Lecture
Dr. Nathan Katz, professor and chair in the department of religious studies at Florida International University, where he also directs the Program in the Study of Spirituality, will give The University of Alabama department of religious studies’ 2009-2010 Aaron Aronov Lecture.
Renowned Scientist Steven Pinker to Deliver UA’s Blount Initiative Lecture
Steven Pinker, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists and a best-selling author, will speak Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. at the Bama Theatre in downtown Tuscaloosa on “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.”
2009 Alabama Quality Award Winners Announced; Presentations Dec. 3 at UA
The Alabama Productivity Center and the Alabama Technology Network announces nine organizations as recipients of the 2009 Alabama Quality Award, the state’s highest honor for quality and performance excellence.