The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center and University Recreation are presenting an exhibit of photographs called “What Makes You Beautiful: Loving Yourself Inside & Out” in the Ferguson Center Art Gallery through Feb. 28.
Dr. Xiaoyan Hong, an associate professor of computer science at The University of Alabama, has been selected for one of 33 academic and industry teams to be funded by the National Science Foundation to advance research in network science and engineering in an effort known as GENI.
The University of Alabama is partnering with Soles4Souls, a Nashville-based charity, to collect shoes for relief efforts to help the people of Haiti.
African-American Heritage Month is being celebrated at The University of Alabama with a wide variety of events on campus and a 2010 theme of “Black Economic Empowerment.”
Dr. Samit Roy, the William D. Jordan Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, was recently elected as a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
The University of Alabama is hosting the first conference to look at the lives of Latinas and Latinos in the southern United States. “Latinas/os in the U.S. South: Immigration, Integration and Identity” will be held Friday, Feb. 19, at the Hotel Capstone on the UA campus.
Kathy Yarbrough has been named director of leadership gifts for The University of Alabama.
The University of Alabama Black Faculty and Staff Association is presenting guest speaker Frazine Taylor, an expert on African-American genealogy, who will give a workshop on campus Saturday, Feb. 13, from 10 a.m.-noon in 110 AIME Building.
The recycling program at The University of Alabama has been selected as one of five finalists in the 2010 Southern Association of College and University Business Officers Best Practices competition.
Larry W. O’Neal has been named director of development for The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences. In this role, he will lead the College’s fundraising efforts and cultivate, solicit and steward gifts to the College.