A musical performance by Atlanta-based visual artist and musician Lonnie Holley, known to locals as “The Sandman,” will kick off the next exhibit at the Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art in downtown Tuscaloosa.
University of Pennsylvania biologist Dr. Sarah Tishkoff will present the next installment of the 2013-2014 Alabama’s Lecture on Life’s Evolution, or ALLELE, Series with her lecture “African Evolutionary Genomics: Implications for Human Origins and Disease.”
More than 400 students are expected to participate in the 2014 regional Science Olympiad competition at The University of Alabama Saturday, Feb. 22, beginning at 9 a.m.
Dr. Pamela Hieronymi, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present the lecture “The Problem of Free Will and Moral Responsibility,” Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall on The University of Alabama campus.
Larry D. Dixon, executive director of the Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners, will be the featured speaker for the 12th annual Susan and Gaylon McCollough Medical Scholars Forum Feb. 7-8 in the Shelby Hall rotunda on The University of Alabama campus.
The University of Alabama’s Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art in downtown Tuscaloosa opens today its first exhibit of the year, “Scottsboro Boys: The Fred Hiroshige Photographs” from the Morgan County Archives. It showcases historic photographs on loan from Morgan County that document the 1933 retrial of one of Alabama’s “Scottsboro Boys.”
An inaugural exhibition of artworks from the collection of University of Alabama alumni Jim and Myra Morgan will open Jan.16 at The University of Alabama Gallery in Tuscaloosa’s Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center. The exhibit, “The Morgan Collection – Selections,” will be displayed through March 7.
Dr. Gregory Retallack, a world-leading expert in fossil plants and soil and a professor of geological sciences at the University of Oregon, will present the next lecture in The University of Alabama’s 2013-2014 ALLELE Lecture series Thursday, Jan. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building Auditorium on the UA campus.