Camp Cash teaches students about financial responsibility
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – June 17
16 Tuscaloosa kids are learning to take their finances seriously at Camp Cash. The two-week course at the University of Alabama teaches kids the fundamentals of managing money.
Opinion: Wi-Fi block idea worth a test run
Tuscaloosa News – June 18
…The prospect of going wireless downtown holds even more appeal for the fact that it could be done so cheaply. Students from University of Alabama business professor Dung Chau’s management information systems class estimated it could be done for around $3,000 in equipment…
Sales tax revenue up in April
Tuscaloosa News – June 18
…The added revenue will help the local governments, schools and hospitals, but the trend isn’t likely to continue long term, said Sam Addy, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama…’I would say [the increase] is a fluke that is affected by increased activities and increased prices,’ Addy said. ‘In general, people are in a lot of debt so we expect people to be pulling back their consumption. For a year as a whole, we do not expect the revenue to grow by much.’…
B.L. Harbert International ‘tops out’ $64M science complex at UA
Birmingham Business Journal – June 18
B.L. Harbert International LLC has “topped out” construction of a $64 million Science and Engineering Complex on the University of Alabama’s campus. The company celebrated “topping out” the complex in a ceremony last week. The three-story building will expand the existing Shelby Hall facility. It is 235,000 square feet and contains laboratory space for teaching and research, including a BSL-3 Lab…