Students learn the art of debate
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 8
…Thursday night on the University of Alabama campus as two teams of Hillcrest Middle School debaters squared off at the Ferguson Center during the culmination of this semester’s “Speak Up Tuscaloosa,” a unique outreach program conceived and designed by a 20-year-old UA student from Birmingham…Elizabeth Jones, who, as a UA freshman, participated in the university’s Moral Forum, part of the school’s pioneering Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility…Jones, now a 20-year-old majoring in economics and psychology, was so inspired by her experience that she created “Speak Up Tuscaloosa” with the help of a squad of University Honors students, Tuscaloosa’s One Place and Hillcrest Middle School. “My work in Moral Forum really got me interested and passionate about debate and I wanted to reach out to students who wouldn’t normally be exposed to such a fun intellectual and art form,” she said. Each Wednesday during the fall semester at UA, Jones and other college students worked with nearly three dozen sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders at Tuscaloosa’s One Place, a family resource center on Redmont Drive in Alberta…Joyce Stallworth, a senior associate dean in the UA’s College of Communication, helped supervise the program and said the first few weeks of the semester were spent by the UA students learning how to teach debate. “Then we had some teachers come in to talk to them about teaching middle-school students,” she said…
12 Southern fish species endangered
The (Nashville) Tennessean – Dec. 7
…Male relict darters are in charge of protecting their mate’s eggs on the underside of flat rocks, according to Bernard Kuhajda, researcher at the University of Alabama and the council’s chairman…
Mark Feldman Discusses SIDS
MSNBC – Dec. 6
…Dr. Mark Feldman is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama. “We have to understand a few things about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. One is that there is typically no warning sign…”
Workers needed to help gather 2010 Census data
Florence Times Daily – Dec. 7
…”A lot of it has to do with money,” said Annette Watters, director of the Alabama State Data Center at The University of Alabama. “Federal allocations of many programs are based on the census. “Besides getting your fair share of state and federal dollars, it also has to do with accurate information about your area,” Watters said. “If your town is undercounted, you are not going to qualify for as many federal programs. Every area and every state has a lot at stake.”…
Ivey eyes bid for governor
Mobile Register – Dec. 8
…”She’s a two-term state treasurer, so she does have name recognition,” said David Lanoue, a political science professor at the University of Alabama “That will help her. (But) my guess is most people don’t know what she does.”…
Alabama in middle of auto bailout fracas: State’s incentives to land automakers at issue
Birmingham News – Dec. 7
…Trevor Bain, a labor expert and business professor at the University of Alabama, said he hates to see the debate over Big Three aid falling into a “Civil War debate.” “It’s not a North vs. South thing,” Bain said. “We’re all in this together. The economic impact of one of the Big Three automakers failing will be enormous. They have dealerships in small towns all over Alabama that provide jobs and a tax base.” Bain supports the idea of government aid and thinks Congress will approve the plan after automakers retool their proposals…”It’s not a bailout, it’s a loan and they will have to pay it back,” Bain said…
College News
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 8 (Print version only)
In late 2009, MSR Recordings will release a CD by Stephen Cary, professor of Music at The University of Alabama, of Shumann’s Dichterliebe and songs of Beethoven…Mr. Cary was a three-time Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions…
UA Gymnasts Throw Holiday Party for RISE
FOX6 (Birmingham) – Dec. 6
University of Alabama gymnasts are getting in the holiday spirit. Friday the Gymnasts took part in a holiday tradition. Each year the ladies have thrown a Christmas party for the RISE program.