Upscale condos filling up on college campuses
Birmingham News – July 12
“There is a niche for luxury housing on college campuses today,” said Grayson Glaze, executive director for Alabama Center for Real Estate at the University of Alabama…
Birds of a feather
Gadsden Times – July 14
…Photographer and Oakwood College professor Bobby Harrison of Gurley and University of Alabama geography professor Michael Steinberg are experts on the ivorybill…Steinberg volunteered to search for ivorybills in swamps in South Carolina. He doesn’t claim to have positively seen one, but he believes he’s heard its cry. “I don’t say that lightly because I just wrote a book and I don’t want it to sound like I’m marketing my book,” Steinberg said. His book, “Stalking the Ghost Bird: The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker,” published by LSU Press, grew out of his life-long interest in the bird he believes he might have seen as a boy….
Keeping an eye on the sky
Tuscaloosa News – July 14
…People can go bird-watching on the University of Alabama campus, which is how UA history professor Edwin Combs got interested in the hobby. Combs couldn’t help but notice the hawks and red-headed woodpeckers as he walked to classes at the university, and now actively looks for other species….’You start noticing they’ve got a little spot of red behind their eye … and there’s green under their tail … you know, you start seeing other stuff,’ said Motherwell, who works for the University of Alabama Press….Dr. Michael Steinberg, a geography professor at UA, has led birding tours in Costa Rica and has gone birding in Belize and Guatemala…. He has been interested in birding ever since the day, as a boy in Florida, he thought he saw an ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird that has been thought extinct for the past 60 years. His sighting that day sparked an interest in the woodpecker and eventually prompted him to write a book published earlier this year called ‘Stalking the Ghost Bird.’…
Alabama football tickets on sale Monday
Tuscaloosa News – July 12
The University of Alabama announced the public sale of individual tickets for six games — Tulane, Western Kentucky, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Arkansas State and Mississippi State — beginning Monday at 8 a.m…