Dr. James Sidanius, a professor in the departments of psychology and African and African American studies at Harvard University, will deliver the annual Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, in room 208 of Gordon Palmer Hall at The University of Alabama.
The University of Alabama’s Creative Campus will host a poetry reading, “Poetry&,” at 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30, in Gorgas Library, room 205. The event is free and open to the public.
University of Alabama experts stand prepared to field questions from the media on the upcoming South Carolina, Florida and Alabama primaries, as well as issues affecting the general election. For more source ideas, contact Richard LeComte, media relations, rllecomte@ur.ua.edu, 205/348-3782.
The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art on The University of Alabama campus will open its 2012 Faculty Biennial Exhibition with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, will run through Friday, Feb. 17.
The University of Alabama Institute for Rural Health Research is seeking nominations for the Rural Health Heroes Awards. The awards will honor health-care providers and others who assisted victims of Alabama’s April 27, 2011, tornadoes.
An outreach program launched in November through The University of Alabama’s Rural Health Scholars Program aims to encourage young people to examine careers in health care. The Hale County Health Scholars Program selected 10 students in the 10th grade from across Hale County through an application process.
The University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences’ Health Sciences Library has received one of only seven grants the National Library of Medicine awarded nationwide for disaster health information outreach and collaboration projects.
Seth Panitch, University of Alabama associate professor of theatre, will lead a group of UA graduate students to Havana, Cuba, later this month to stage a production of American playwright Christopher Durang’s “Beyond Therapy.”
Quidditch on the Quad returns to The University of Alabama Sunday, Nov. 13, under the auspices of UA’s Creative Campus in collaboration with University Recreation.
“Black and White in Crimson: A Symposium on Race and Sports,” presented by The University of Alabama’s department of history, the Friends of History and the Paul W. Bryant Museum, will be Thursday, Nov. 3, and Friday, Nov. 4 at the Hotel Capstone on the UA campus.