WHAT: The “Discerning Diverse Voices Symposium on Diversity” is in its seventh year at The University of Alabama and explores diversity and its characteristics. It features different speakers, panels, research and presentations about the details of modern diversity.

Dr. Robin Boylorn, the coordinator of this year’s event, said that the different presentations are broken into 50-minute sessions to best fit students’s class schedules.

“One of our goals is to make sure people understand that diversity is not just race,” Boylorn said. “It includes race, but it’s not limited to race. I think that is reiterated in our panel this year.”

WHO: The Diversity Forum of the College of Communication and Information Sciences is putting on this annual event. The forum consists of various faculty members of the college who are interested in or performing research in diversity.

WHEN: Wednesday, March 9, 8:30 a.m.- 5:15 p.m.

WHERE: Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library in Room 205 and Room 532

WHY: “I think that this year, we have probably the best participation that we have had and that includes both on campus and off campus,” Boylorn said. “There is some really innovative and interesting research that is going to be presented.”

Boylorn also said that the panel and pre-keynote sessions will be very notable and great opportunities for attendees to learn from a panel of students about their experiences.