Speaking today at The University of Alabama’s winter commencement ceremony, Dr. Douglas E. Jones, UA professor emeritus of geology and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, said the biggest challenges facing this generation of college graduates are environmental issues.
After two consecutive record setting months in July and August, home sales in Alabama decreased again in October, down 8.9 percent from September, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
A mathematics course specially designed for practicing Alabama elementary and middle school teachers who need to fulfill the national “No Child Left Behind” requirements to become highly qualified teachers will be offered by The University of Alabama this spring.
A creature with exactly 302 neurons seems an unlikely stand-in for the human brain, when has more than 100 billion neurons. Yet C. elegans, a nematode no bigger than the comma after this clause, may be a new model for epileptic seizures in humans, according to researchers at The University of Alabama.
Dr. Douglas Duncan, senior vice president and chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual Alabama Real Estate Conference at The University of Alabama on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004.
Monday, Dec. 15, 2003, 9 a.m., at Coleman Coliseum
The University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences is recruiting high school students to participate in its 21st annual Multicultural Journalism Workshop, formerly known as the Minority Journalism Workshop.
Dr. Douglas E. Jones, University of Alabama professor emeritus of geology and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, will be the featured speaker for UA’s winter commencement ceremonies Monday, Dec. 15 at Coleman Coliseum on the UA campus.
Jeremy Lawson, a University of Alabama undergraduate physics major doing research in the UA Materials for Information Technology (MINT) Center, recently won a first-place prize for his research presentation at the INSPIRE conference at the University of Southern Mississippi Oct. 16-18.
April Leigh Quinn of Springville, a member of Delta Zeta sorority at The University of Alabama, was recently awarded the 2003 Florence Hood Miner Award.