UA’s Fifth Annual Arty Party to Benefit School of Music
How would you like to conduct the University of Alabama’s Million Dollar Band in front of 92,000 people at a Crimson Tide home football game?
Events
Find Out ‘What’s Up with Hobbits’ at Next ALLELE Lecture
The controversial discovery of a possible new species of man, named after the short, hole-dwelling Halflings in J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels, will be discussed at The Alabama Lectures on Life’s Evolution, or ALLELE, series on March 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Biology Building on The University of Alabama campus.
Corporate Citizenship Panel to be Held at UA
The University of Alabama Manderson Graduate School of Business, in partnership with Net Impact, Randall-Reilly Publishing and the UA Community Service Center, will sponsor the second annual Corporate Citizenship Panel on Wednesday, March 12, from 1-2 p.m. in 30 Alston Hall.
Nobel Prize Winner to Discuss Electronics Developments During UA Talk
The 2007 Nobel Prize winner in physics will discuss recent electronics developments springing from the discovery for which he was awarded the prize during a March 7 talk hosted by The University of Alabama’s MINT Center and department of physics and astronomy.
UA Junior Panhellenic to Host Community Easter Egg Hunt
The University of Alabama Junior Panhellenic will host their annual Community Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday, March 9, at 1 p.m. on the lawn of the UA President’s Mansion.
UA Associate Provost Explores Poetry, Spirituality Through Book of Essays and Web-Based Chapbook
Fifty-four words, each
six stanzas, 18
lines total. Notes.
Essays. Experiments. Spirituality.
Publish: print, online.
“throttle chortle chicago”
In Lecture ‘Turning Japanese,’ UA Scholar Examines Female Author Caught Between Ethnicities
Winnifred Eaton (1879-1954) was one of the first known writers of Asian descent to be published in America. She wrote several popular novels set in Japan. Yet she tried to hide her ethnic identity – she was born in Canada to an English father and Chinese mother who had been adopted by missionaries. Eaton went so far as to use a Japanese pen name — Onoto Watanna.
Petroleum Alternatives Expert to Present UA Darden Lecture
A researcher whose patents have been commercialized for producing cellulose-based ethanol as an automotive fuel will present the 10th annual Darden Lecture April 3 at 7 p.m. in the Biology Building, room 127, on The University of Alabama campus.
UA’s Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and Chi Omega Sorority Host Cook Out for Make-A-Wish
Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Chi Omega sorority at The University of Alabama will host a cook out benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation March 6 beginning at 5 p.m. at the Phi Delta Theta house.
Self-Defense ‘SHARP’ Course for Women Offered at UA
The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center is sponsoring a SHARP (Sexual Harassment, Assault & Rape Prevention) self-defense course on Monday, March 3, and Wednesday, March 5, from 6-10 p.m. at the UA Student Recreation Center free of charge to female students, faculty and staff.