University of Alabama students will disperse around Tuscaloosa to perform service projects with nonprofit organizations from 9 a.m. to noon. Friday, April 5, for Hands on Tuscaloosa: Earth Day Edition.
A select group of high school sophomores invited from across the state attended the sixth annual Capstone Leadership Academy at The University of Alabama on Thursday and Friday, March 14-15.
University of Alabama student Koushik Kasanagottu has been named as a 2013 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact, a national coalition of college and university presidents who are committed to fulfilling the public purposes of higher education.
A luncheon honoring The University of Alabama’s 2012-2013 Coca-Cola First Generation Scholars will be at noon Tuesday, April 2, in Smith Hall on the UA campus.
The University of Alabama’s department of American studies will host a lecture by Dr. David Wharton, director of documentary studies at the University of Mississippi, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4, in room 110 of the AIME Building on campus. A reception and signing of Wharton’s recently published book, “Small Town South,” will follow.
A piece of handmade and hand-cut paper, made from the bark of a Tuscaloosa paper mulberry tree, unites through art the symbolic protector of a remote Mexican village with Big Al, thanks to an intrepid University of Alabama professor’s creative research.
The University of Alabama will recognize the achievement of outstanding students and faculty during Honors Week activities on campus from Monday, April 1, to Tuesday, April 9. The Tapping on the Mound ceremony, a tradition since the early 1900s, will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 5, on the Mound at the west side of the UA Quad (rain location will be Moody Music Building Concert Hall).
The University Fellows Experience, housed in the Honors College at The University of Alabama, has selected 37 prospective freshmen members.
Jimmy Taylor, a Fairhope junior majoring in finance in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, was elected president of The University of Alabama Student Government Association for the 2013-2014 term.
Mental health, education and public safety will be the topics of upcoming University of Alabama Town Halls, sponsored by the Honors College.