Dr. Donald Prothero, professor of geology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, will speak on “Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters” at the first Alabama Lecture on Life’s Evolution, or ALLELE series, for 2009.
The University of Alabama will host a regional Science Olympiad competition for middle and high school students Saturday, Feb. 28, at 9 a.m.
The University of Alabama’s department of theatre and dance presents Shakespeare’s soaring history play “Henry V” from Tuesday, Feb. 24, to Sunday, March 1, in the Marian Gallaway Theatre.
University of Alabama students with 60 or more credit hours who have purchased an official class ring will have a chance to commemorate their achievements at the annual Ring Ceremony Sunday, April 19 at 2 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Heritage Room.
The University of Alabama will host its annual High School German Day on Monday, March 2 at the Ferguson Center with some 350 high school students from across the state expected to be on campus to participate in the event.
The University of Alabama and UAB joint master’s in art history program is presenting the 14th annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History Friday, Feb. 20 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library on the UA campus.
One of the world’s largest collections of 20th-century African-American Art, the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, will be on display at The University of Alabama and Stillman College in March. It will be the first UA exhibition of the collection since Jones donated it to the University in October 2008.
The University of Alabama Ferguson Center Student Union will host the fourth annual Hip-Hop Summit with the theme “Expressing the Nation” Feb. 16-18 on campus.
The University of Alabama Community Service Center’s Hunger and Homelessness Week will be held Feb. 16-20 and is designed to raise the public’s awareness of poverty in our state and around the world.
Dr. Bryan Norton, distinguished professor of philosophy in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, will speak on “Strategy Amid Uncertainty: Learning to Think Like a Planet” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, in The University of Alabama’s Biology Auditorium. The event, part of the Alabama Perspectives on Sustainability and Climate Change lecture series, is free and open to the public.