UA’s Engineering College Receives Funding From Bellsouth For Diversity Programming
The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently received $25,000 in funding from BellSouth Corp. in support of the College’s diversity programs.
Journal Editor To Discuss Teacher Testing At Annual Curtis Lecture March 22 At UA
Dr. Marilyn Cochran-Smith, editor of the Journal of Teacher Education, will present “Outputs, Outcomes, and Results: The New Orthodoxy in Teacher Education” for the 2001 James P. Curtis Distinguished Lecture Thursday, March 22 at 7 p.m.in the Rast Room of the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.
UA Law Students To Aid Tuscaloosa Community
The Student Bar Association at The University of Alabama School of Law will hold its spring semester Work-A-Day on Saturday, March 3.
UA’s First Astronaut will Pilot March Shuttle Mission
James Kelly, who earned his master’s degree in aerospace engineering from The University of Alabama in 1996, will pilot the Space Shuttle Discovery on its March mission to the International Space Station.
Housing Affordability Rebounds, Hits New High For State
After declining for three consecutive quarters, housing affordability rebounded strongly during the final three months of 2000, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.
John Holaday, Ceo Of Cancer Treatment Innovator Entremed, Inc. To Present Darden Lecture At UA
Nationally recognized researcher and biopharmaceutical executive Dr. John Holaday, whose company EntreMed has made national headlines with its cancer drugs designed to starve tumors by cutting off their blood supply, will return to his alma mater to present the William Darden Lecture in Biological Sciences at The University of Alabama.