Events

Lecture and Exhibit at UA Address Civil Rights Struggle and the Press

As part of The University of Alabama celebration of African-American Heritage Month, the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library will host guest speaker Hank Klibanoff, managing editor for news at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and co-author of “The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation” (Knopf, 2006), who will talk about his book and his research on the Civil Rights era and the media Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 4:30 p.m.

UA ‘Speak the Truth’ Event Features Acclaimed Alabama Forensics Council

The University of Alabama Center for Ethics & Social Responsibility and the Alabama Forensics Council are presenting “Speak the Truth,” a spoken word event celebrating ethical and inspirational communication, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Ferguson Theater.

First Charter Mutual Holding Company and Johnson Family Make Contributions to UA Scholarships

First Charter Mutual Holding Company, the parent company of CharterBank of West Point, Ga., with company chairman John W. “Bubber” Johnson, Jr. and president and CEO Robert L. Johnson, both of Lanett, have made a scholarship gift of $61,335 to The University of Alabama’s “Our Students. Our Future.” campaign. The contributions to the John Will and Cordelia Harrell Johnson Memorial Endowed Scholarship and the John W. and Elsie Brinson Johnson Memorial Endowed Scholarship bring the total of the scholarship endowments to more than $100,000 each.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to Speak at UA School of Law

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. will deliver the eighth Albritton Lecture at The University of Alabama School of Law Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. in McMillan Lecture Hall at the Law School.

UA’s Delta Sigma Theta Sorority to Host Past National President at Scholarship Event

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Boyd, an accomplished engineer and the former national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., will be the guest speaker at the annual scholarship ball hosted by the Lambda Zeta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority at The University of Alabama on Saturday, Feb. 10.

ICE President to Speak With UA Students

Chuck Vice, president and chief operating officer of the Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), will be speaking with students at The University of Alabama Monday, Feb. 19.

UA Engineering Students to Compete in Concrete Canoe Competition

Can you cruise in a concrete canoe? Civil engineering students from The University of Alabama will be challenged to do just that as they compete with other schools in the American Society of Civil Engineers Southeastern Regional Conference concrete canoe competition.

UA Students Explore Hip Hop Culture at Summit

As part of African-American Heritage Month events at The University of Alabama, the 2007 Hip Hop Summit “Hip Hop and Beyond” will be held Thursday, Feb. 22 in the Ferguson Center on campus.

Grammy-Award Winning Gospel Singers to Perform at UA

Spirituals, hymns and gospel, as well as jazz and blues, will be presented by Grammy Award-winning African female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock on Feb. 16 as part of The University of Alabama School of Music’s Celebrity Series. The performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Moody Music Building on the UA campus.

Art Exhibit, Historian to Speak as Part of ‘An Evening of Art and Politics’ at UA

The Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South will present “An Evening of Art and Politics,” in celebration of African American Heritage Month, in the second floor conference room of Gorgas Library on The University of Alabama campus, Wednesday, Feb. 14 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.