Research and creative activity conference held Monday
Crimson White – April 23
Almost 200 students participated in the first UA Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference on Monday, giving posters and oral presentations to faculty judges that demonstrated their research in a variety of areas…Judy Bonner, UA executive vice president and provost, cited the importance of participating in creative activities and research in a press release. “Increasingly, participation in original research and creative activities is becoming a hallmark of the undergraduate experience at the University of Alabama,” Bonner said. “Our faculty constantly seeks new opportunities to engage our undergraduate students in quality research, discovery and creative endeavors that will define their academic experience at the Capstone.”…
Endowment named in honor of first lady
Crimson White – April 23
UA President’s Cabinet honored the University’s first lady Sandee Kirby Witt by establishing an endowment in her name in March…”Sandee has championed for the preservation and upkeep of the President’s Mansion as one of the University’s fine landmarks for many years,” President’s Cabinet Chairman Tony Davis said in a press release. “She has served the University with ultimate grace, character and selfless dedication, and it is fitting that we honor her with an endowment that will make it possible to sustain the mansion’s elegance and charm.”…
Crimson caravan stops in Dothan Thursday
Dothan Eagle – April 23
“Crimson,” the official commemorative book of the University of Alabama experience, will be available at the Crimson Caravan tour when it stops in Dothan on Thursday, 6 p.m., at the Dothan Convention Center. “Crimson” is a coffee table book with 156 pages full of images that capture the Capstone experience for anyone who has ever said, “Roll Tide Roll,” or heard Denny Chimes toll the Alma Mater…The Crimson Caravan, Dothan event is sponsored by the University of Alabama Athletics and hosted by the Dothan, Montgomery and Panama City Red Elephant Clubs. Alabama head football coach Nick Saban, the Million Dollar Pep Band and the Alabama Cheerleaders will all be present…
Spreading the word
Mobile Register – April 23
Nick Saban’s Crimson Caravan Tour rolled into Mobile Tuesday evening…roughly 500 Bama faithful turned out for the $100-a-plate rally at the USS Alabama Battleship Pavilion to see cheerleaders, Big Al and a prorated Million Dollar Band, but mostly to hear the living legacy of the leader of the Caravan Saban…
UA coming to Columbus to teach wheelchair b-ball
Columbus (Miss.) Dispatch – April 22
…The MUW Department of Community Living will sponsor a wheelchair basketball program at 7 p.m. in MUW’s Pohl Gym…The program will feature members of the University of Alabama wheelchair basketball team and will focus on education about the sport…University of Alabama is one of only three universities in the country that has both a men’s and women’s collegiate wheelchair basketball program and is the only university in the southeast to field wheelchair athletic teams. The men’s team closed out the 2007-08 regular season with a seventh-place finish in the National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament.
Thompson Named to U.S. Team for 2008 Palmer Cup
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 22
University of Alabama senior golfer Michael Thompson has been selected to the U.S. Team for the 2008 Palmer Cup.
Magazine recognizes Tide golfer
Montgomery Advertiser – April 23
For the second time since March, a University of Alabama golfer has been named Golfweek’s Collegiate Player of the Week. Michael Thompson, a senior from Tucson, Ariz., got the nod on Tuesday and is featured at www.golfweek.com. Thompson had a 7-under 65 in the Southeastern Conference Championship one week after playing at the Masters, helping the Crimson Tide claim victory…Crimson Tide junior Matthew Swan was named Golfweek’s Player of the Week on March 3 after he led Alabama to the team championship and claimed the individual championship of the Puerto Rico Class.
Clothes designed for June Collier are displayed in Smith Hall
Crimson White – April 23
The clothing collection of one of the first female business leaders in the automotive field. The clothes, designed by the couturier Kellé Thompson for businesswoman June Collier, are on display in an exhibit titled, “June Collier: A Couturier Retrospective 1973-2006.” “Knowing the importance of first impressions, she partnered with couturier Kellé Thompson, who had extensive training in Paris, to help craft the proper image,” said Virginia Wimberley, UA professor of fashion design and the exhibit’s curator. “It is that partnership of these two successful individuals that is on display in this exhibit.”… The exhibit runs through May 3 and is sponsored by the Alabama Museum of Natural History…
Local home sales pace picks up
Montgomery Advertiser – April 23
…According to the Alabama Center for Real Estate at the University of Alabama, Realtors sold 416 homes in the Montgomery area last month, more than 100 fewer than last year, but more than the 340 sold in February…Grayson Glaze, ACRE executive director, said in a statement issued along with the monthly report that the agency expected lower numbers than last March and that should be taken in context. “The preceding March was red-hot and represented the second-best on record at 5,405 units for the month,” he said of statewide home sales…
AMCOM leader meets lawmakers
Huntsville Times – April 23
…Maj. Gen. James Myles also later met with Gov. Bob Riley as part of a one-day blitz to seek state support for BRAC-related needs facing Huntsville and Madison County…Myles told lawmakers that Samuel Addy, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama, calls BRAC “the largest economic event in the state, and nothing comes close.”…
James plans race for governor
Montgomery Advertiser – April 23
Greenville businessman Tim James is looking at running again for the office his father, former Gov. Fob James, held for two terms…William Stewart, a veteran political scientist at the University of Alabama, said children of Alabama governors have had a mixed record in state politics. Jim Folsom Jr., son of Gov. James E. “Big Jim” Folsom, has been elected lieutenant governor three times and spent two years as governor, but George Wallace Jr., son of Govs. George and Lurleen Wallace, failed in bids for lieutenant governor and Congress, while winning terms as state treasurer and Public Service commissioner…
Psychology tests slated for school CFO candidates
Tuscaloosa News – April 23
…The use of organizational and industrial psychologist consultant groups is widespread, said Dan Bachrach, assistant professor at the University of Alabama who specializes in the field. He said the assessments are used in both selecting candidates and in improving the performance of existing employees and offers a valid, unbiased approach to evaluating people. “The hiring of the outside consultant suggests a seriousness in their approach because on the face of it they are taking some kind of systematic approach to the selection process,” Bachrach said…
Alabama’s housing market should continue to outperform the nation, as long as the state is able to add jobs, real estate expert says
Birmingham News – April 23
Though Alabama’s housing market has seen a downturn, it should continue to outperform the nation’s, as long as the state is able to add jobs, a real estate expert says. Grayson Glaze, executive director of the University of Alabama’s Center for Real Estate, says job market conditions are key to the fortunes of the housing market. Alabama has escaped the worst effects of a national housing slump that has seen falling prices, surging foreclosures and comparisons to the Great Depression. “Recent diversification, continuing job gains, and ongoing industry recruitment and work force development will complement more solid fundamentals in housing and credit conditions than are seen in many states,” Glaze said in an interview…
UA Goes Green
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 22
The University of Alabama celebrates Earth Day by joining a group that believes in going green. The University recently joined the U.S. Green Building Council…
Conserving Fuel
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 22
UA Engineering Professor, Dr. Peter Clark, says there are some easy steps everyone can take to cutting their fuel consumption
Students ‘Take Back the Night’
Crimson White – April 23
…the 22nd annual “Take Back the Night” protest, supporting the end of violence against women. The event was the result of cooperation between many different organizations from both on and off campus, including the Women’s Resource Center, Verizon Wireless, Coca-Cola, the Counseling Center, Turning Point, WILL, Unscripted, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Xi Phi, the University’s departments of women’s studies and theatre and dance and Spectrum…
Whistleblower to speak at UA tonight
Crimson White – April 23
A UA alumna who was at the center of one of the most infamous corporate scandals in recent history will speak at 7 p.m. in the Ferguson Theater. Cynthia Cooper, who received a master’s degree in accountancy from the University, became famous in 2002 for her auditing role in uncovering corporate fraud at the former WorldCom. For her efforts, Cooper was named one of Time Magazine’s 2002 “Persons of the Year” as one of “The Whistleblowers.”…
Editorial: R.B. Walker: Serving in office was an honor
Crimson White – April 23
… the blessed/broken road led me to the greatest job on the flagship’s campus – our 93rd SGA president…this has been a year of great empowerment for our students. We have been able to look into the eyes of city leaders to remind them that there are 25,580 of us and counting and our voice matters. We have sent Internet without wires through some of our campus’ oldest spaces. We established a philosophy of protection for student rights and empowered ourselves to fight for those rights. We have created a voice that is listened to in the halls of our state government and we have made textbooks more affordable. We have empowered students to make themselves and those that they care about safer. We have revolutionized the way students buy, sell, trade and use their athletics tickets…
Three UA athletes honored on Black Scholars Day
Tuscaloosa News – April 22
Three University of Alabama student-athletes were recently honored on campus for their work in the classroom. Freshman men’s basketball player Justin Knox, sophomore women’s basketball player Tamara Williams and sophomore sprinter Brandon Spradley were honored by the University of Alabama Black Faculty and Staff Association at Black Scholars Day. All undergraduate African American students were honored for having earned a grade point average of 3.0 or higher and the Tide trio was among the 650 students honored…