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Best-selling Author to Deliver Dinoff Lecture at UA

  Dr. Steven C. Hayes, professor and director of clinical training at the University of Nevada, will deliver the 2014 Michael Dinoff Memorial Lecture Jan. 30 at The University of Alabama. Hayes’ lecture, “Human Suffering and Human Prosperity: Why Psychological Flexibility Matters,” will begin at 6 p.m. in room 118 of Bibb Graves Hall. Admission is free to the public, and a reception will follow the lecture. Hayes is an author of 38 books and more than 540 scientific articles. […]

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Criminal Justice Department and UAPD to Launch Cyber Crime Lab Course

In collaboration with UAPD, the Department of Criminal Justice has begun accepting students into the Cyber Crime Lab program. The program will stay true to its name, but students will be studying far more than just cyber crimes. UAPD’s new Joint Electronics Crime Task Force (JECTF) will be hosting the program, representing the first digital evidence-processing center in Alabama. As part of UAPD, the new lab will process evidence from cases from all over the state. In its first semester, […]

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Students Discuss Benefits of Peer Tutoring

Students across campus work with their classmates to solve homework problems, study for tests, and understand concepts. Yet for some, this type of peer tutoring can mean a worthwhile experience and extra spending money. “I thought it would be a good experience to teach peers more,” said Peter Arvanitis, a junior majoring in math and psychology. “I’m good at it, so I like helping people, and this is stuff I can help them with.” Arvanitis started tutoring at the Mathematics […]

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Blount Undergraduate Initiative Celebrates 15 Years

To coincide with Blount’s 15-year anniversary, the College of Arts and Sciences will host a day of activities for all former and current Blount scholars in Oliver-Bernard Hall on Nov. 1. Any current or former students who signed Blount’s “Book of Scholars” as freshmen are invited, as well as any faculty or administrators linked to the program throughout its history. “It’s going to be interesting,” said Dr. Joseph Hornsby, director of the program. “We’ve set up the program so that every […]

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2014-15 ALLELE Series

Lecture on Dinosaur Trace Fossils Kicks Off Evolution Series’ Ninth Year Dr. Anthony Martin will deliver the first lecture of the 2014-15 ALLELE series on Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building auditorium (room 127). Anthony Martin, honors program coordinator and professor of practice at Emory University College of Arts and Sciences, will present “Dinosaurs Without Bones: What Dinosaur Trace Fossils Tell Us About Evolution,” as part of the 2014-2015 Alabama’s Lecture on Life’s Evolution, or ALLELE, series […]

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Workshop Explains Summer Credit Transfers

Taking courses away from UA this summer? Find out how to make sure your credits will transfer Let’s say you, like many UA students, plan to take courses at a college in your hometown over the summer. How can you be sure those courses will apply toward UA degree requirements? And how will those courses affect your GPA? Find out at A&S Student Services’ workshop Tuesday, February 4, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library. College of Arts and […]

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Cultural Arts Center Gallery Unveils Next Exhibition

The next exhibition in The University of Alabama Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, “Wash by Margaret Wrinkle: Seeing Across the Divide,” features a series of photographs taken by Wrinkle at slavery-related sites throughout the South while researching her critically acclaimed novel, “Wash.” Published by Grove/Atlantic, Wrinkle’s novel “Wash” reexamines American slavery in ways that challenge many contemporary assumptions about race, power, history, and healing as it carries the reader from the American South to West Africa. Wrinkle paired each of her […]

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ALLELE Lecturer to Discuss “The Consuming Instinct”

Dr. Gad Saad, an evolutionary economist and professor of marketing at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, will deliver the next lecture in the 2013-2014 ALLELE Lecture series on Thursday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building Auditorium on The University of Alabama campus. His lecture, “The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature,” is based on his book of the same title. ALLELE lectures are coordinated by the Evolution Working Group at UA, […]

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Primatology Class Gets Crunchy

Anthropology students use interactive activities to learn about primate behavior The problem with eating crickets is getting their legs stuck in your teeth. Karl Bennett, a senior majoring in anthropology, ate crickets with his classmates in ANT 312 Non-Human Primates, an introductory primatology course. “They tasted like sunflower seeds with shells,” Bennett said. “The weirdest thing with the crickets was feeling the legs on my tongue and picking them out from my teeth.” Jordan Cooper, a senior majoring in French, […]

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Philosophy Today Series Opens with Time Travel Discussion

Dr. Ned Markosian, a professor in the philosophy department at Western Washington University, will discuss the topic of time travel in the first lecture in the 2013-2014 Philosophy Today Series. His lecture, “Is Time Travel Possible?,” will be held Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in room 205 of Smith Hall on The University of Alabama campus. Markosian will discuss the possibility of time travel to the past using the two leading theories about the nature of time: the Static Theory of […]

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