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New Center for Mental Health and Aging Seeks Applications From Faculty
Celebrate Halloween with UA Student Athletes and Volleyball Team
26th Annual English Symposium to Focus on Ethnicity
Summersell Lecture Series to Present Talk on Slavery and the Law in the Post-Revolutionary South
Deadline for Innovative Instructional Technology Set
UA United Way Campaign in Full Swing
"Watercolor: In The Abstract" is Set to Open at Sarah Moody Gallery of Art

New Center for Mental Health and Aging Seeks Applications From Faculty

The University of Alabama's recently funded Center for Mental Health and Aging is seeking applications from faculty for appointment to the Center as affiliates. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded a $500,000 grant to Drs. Louis Burgio and Lucinda Roff for the creation of the Center. As an interdisciplinary, national research center, the Center for Mental Health and Aging will serve to coordinate the activities of multiple disciplines needed to address the complex problems related to aging and mental health.

Applicants who receive affiliate status will be eligible to apply for pilot funds from the Center and have access to other Center resources. A scientific seminar series is in preparation.

Interested applicants should send a current CV and a brief statement describing their prior experience in aging research or their interest in developing such interest. Faculty from all divisions of the University are invited to apply.

Send materials to Angela Rothrock, Project Manager, Center for Mental Health and Aging, University of Alabama, Box 870315, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0315.

Celebrate Halloween with UA Student Athletes and Volleyball Team

This year the Student-Athlete Advisory Board will host its third annual Halloween Extravaganza in conjunction with the volleyball game on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in Coleman Coliseum. This event is open to kids of all ages. The halftime costume contest is for kids ages 5-10.

Kids who get there by 7 p.m. will get candy at the door, and the winner of the costume contest will be given an Alabama prize pack. Come out and support the Alabama volleyball team as they host Georgia State. Tickets are free. The Student-Athlete Advisory Board appreciates your support.

26th Annual English Symposium to Focus on Ethnicity

The University of Alabama and the department of English invite faculty and staff to the 26th Annual English Symposium "English and Ethnicity." This year's focus will be the use of English as a resource for the representation of ethnicity as an aspect of sociocultural identity. The program begins Thursday, Oct. 31, at 7 p.m. and runs through Saturday, Nov 2. A detailed schedule of events can be found at www.as.ua.edu/english/. This year K-12 educators, with approval from their school districts, may receive one continuing education unit (CEU) for the combination of the opening lecture on Thursday evening and the Saturday sessions. They also may receive professional development hours for more limited participation.

The Oct. 31 keynote address at 7 p.m. in Morgan Hall Auditorium will be delivered by Dr. Alamin Mazrui, African- American sociolinguist, playwright, poet and public intellectual. Mazrui teaches in the department of African-American and African studies at The Ohio State University. His lecture is titled "English in the Black Experience: A Sociolinguistics of 'Double-Consciousness'."

Summersell Lecture Series to Present Talk on Slavery and the Law in the Post-Revolutionary South

Dr. Laura F. Edwards, associate professor of history at Duke University, will lecture on "Was it a Crime when John Mann Shot Lydia? Slaves, Law and Justice in the Post-Revolutionary South," Monday, Oct. 28, at 7:30 p.m., in 30 ten Hoor Hall. Edwards' lecture is the seventh presented by the Summersell Fund in Southern History and the UA department of history.

Edwards is the author of "Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction" and "Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era," both published by the University of Illinois Press. She is currently researching the reconfiguration of domestic relations, patriarchy, and the status of white women and enslaved women and men in the early 19th century.

Deadline for Innovative Instructional Technology Set

The deadline for the 2002-03 innovative instructional technology grants is Friday, Nov. 15. For information on proposal criteria and submission, go to the Web site at www.ua.edu/academic/provost/itg/. Grant proposals for more than the past $5,000 will be considered, particularly those focusing on applications of technology for the large classroom. For a copy of a complete proposal, contact Pat Melson at pmelson@aalan.ua.edu or at 348-4893.

UA United Way Campaign in Full Swing

There is already good news about UA's United Way drive. The first reporting period showed that the University had raised more than 25% of the goal. Now is the time to make this campaign, the only University-sanctioned solicitation, successful. This year's goal is $170,000. Faculty and staff can complete the pledge cards and forward them to Caroline Railsback in 201 Rose Administration or to your office coordinator. This year's co-chairs are Dr. Roger Thompson, UA registrar, and Dr. Carolyn Dahl, dean of the College of Continuing Studies; assistant co-chairs are Martha Piwonka, assistant UA registrar, and Deb West, executive secretary in the College of Continuing Studies.

'Watercolor: In The Abstract' is Set to Open at Sarah Moody Gallery of Art

Abstract watercolor painting UA's Sarah Moody Gallery of Art is presenting the work of abstract artists enjoying national and international reputation in the exhibition "Watercolor: In the Abstract." The exhibition opens Nov. 1, and will run through Dec. 15. The exhibition addresses a lesser-known side of the watercolor medium and offers a rare opportunity to observe a variety of visual ideas captured in the immediacy of watercolor by some premier American and European painters of the 20th and 21st centuries.

"Watercolor: In the Abstract" includes works by Kim Anno, Richmond Burton, Louise Fishman, Gunther Forg, Sam Gilliam, Al Held, Ian Hughes, Suzanne Joelson, Betsy Kaufmann, Martin Kline, Sol Lewitt, Eva Lundsager, Melissa Meyer, Ed Moses, Laurie Reid, Gerhard Richter, Peter Schyuff, Sean Scully, Sara Sosnowy, Richard Tuttle, Juan Usle and Jerry Zeniuk.

Curatorial support and tour organization for the exhibit comes from Alexandra Muse, Seattle, Wash., and Pamela Auchincloss/Arts Management, New York. Gallery hours are weekdays from 9 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. and Sunday 2-5 p.m.