Students and community members will have the chance to learn how incarceration in the U.S. is changing and what law enforcement agencies are doing to modernize, adapt, and respond to the issues facing offenders in jails and prisons during a community panel Wedneday, Oct. 19, at The University of Alabama.
With Halloween right around the corner, it’s a fitting time to discover some of the more eerie aspects of The University of Alabama’s history.
Two University of Alabama graduate students will receive annual financial support from the expansion of a research agreement between UA and the Japanese electronics company TDK Corp.
This week at The University of Alabama: Fruit flies and exercise – Student develops app for baseball – UA, TDK expand research agreement – Criminal justice hosts panel on mass incarceration – Titanic discoverer visits campus – Beat Auburn, Beat Hunger
Gentle exercise on a wheel can have beneficial effects – on fruit flies. That finding may be good news for humans, too. A new study led by The University of Alabama suggests that a device called the TreadWheel can be used to study the benefits of exercise on Drosophila — fruit flies.
The University of Alabama’s Cuba Week kicks off Monday, Oct. 24 at 8:30 a.m. at Bryant-Jordan Hall on the UA campus.
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby’s town hall visit has been canceled. The lecture, which was originally scheduled for Oct. 24 as a part of the Blount Speaker Series, may be rescheduled for a later date.
Autherine Lucy Foster, the first African-American student to enroll at The University of Alabama, and Judy Merritt, the first woman to serve as president of a college in the state of Alabama, are among the inductees of the 2016 Educator Hall of Fame class.
Laurence Leamer, a New York Times bestselling author, will present the 13th Rose Gladney Lecture on Justice and Social Change at The University of Alabama at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, in Gorgas Library, room 205, on the UA campus.
Ten faculty members at The University of Alabama will take part in the 2016-17 Southeastern Conference Faculty Travel Program, which provides travel support and encourages collaboration among colleagues at other SEC member institutions.