Alabama’s “American Idol” star Ruben Studdard will be a featured guest at the Community Culture Fest on Sunday, Oct. 5 at 5 p.m. The event, sponsored by The University of Alabama Office of Community Affairs and Tuscaloosa Housing Authority, will be held from 2-6 p.m. at McKenzie (Hope VI) Community, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Tuscaloosa.
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center will sponsor a screening and discussion of the film “Walkout” on Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Theater as part of Hispanic Latino Heritage Month events on campus.
Dr. Doug Husak, a professor in the philosophy department at Rutgers, will present his lecture “Four Points about Drug Criminalization” at 7:30 p.m. October 2 in room 30 of ten Hoor Hall on The University of Alabama campus as part of the 2008-2009 Philosophy Today lecture series.
Claudia Quigg, founder and executive director of “Baby TALK,” a community engagement program building parent-infant relationships, will speak Thursday, Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. in the Child Development Research Center on The University of Alabama campus.
The University of Alabama’s department of theatre and dance presents the student choreographed “Dance Alabama!” fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30—Thursday, Oct. 2 and at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, in Morgan Auditorium on Colonial Drive in the UA Theatre District.
Five of the state’s leading business and civic leaders will be inducted into the Alabama Business Hall of Fame Friday, Oct. 10 at a black-tie dinner at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.
The University of Alabama Computer-Based Honors Program is reaching a milestone anniversary with the celebration of its 40th anniversary on campus Saturday, Sept. 20.
The College of Arts and Sciences will host two free movie nights, in honor of Constitution Day, Sept. 17-18 at 7 p.m. in 208 Gordon Palmer Hall on The University of Alabama campus.
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, a respected advocate and consultant for building town-gown relationships in university communities, will visit The University of Alabama Monday, Sept. 15 and Tuesday, Sept. 16.
Former Alabama quarterback Tyler Watts of Pelham, now a color analyst on CSS, recently spoke to the Alabama Insurance Society about his other job as an insurance executive with Nationwide Insurance.