UA unveils new design for alumni car tags
Mobile Register – March 11
University of Alabama car tags will have a different look in 2009. The school has announced plans for a redesign. Per figures from the university, UA’s National Alumni Association raised a total of nearly $3 million through the car tag program in the 2007-2008 fiscal year – the most of any university in the state. Auburn came in second at around $2.43 million. More than 1,200 UA undergraduate students received scholarships through the license tag program this year, and 21 graduate students received fellowships.
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UA professor’s system filters debris to keep it from draining into river
Tuscaloosa News – March 11
A University of Alabama engineering professor and the Office of the City Engineer are working together on a project that can reduce storm drain pollutants ending up in the Black Warrior River. Robert Pitt, Cudworth Professor of Urban Water Systems in UA’s civil engineering department, developed a prototype for a filtering system that fits in a catch basin. He tested it in a parking lot next to City Hall and found it effective…
UA film selected for ethics conference
Tuscaloosa News – March 11
University of Alabama law student Kristian Collins…and fellow UA student Stephen Lovell produced their documentary, ‘Storybook,’ as part of the university’s ‘Documenting Justice’ course. The documentary is named for an Aid to Inmate Mothers program that allows prisoners to read to their children and grandchildren on cassette tape and send them the recordings…The documentary, which features interviews with prisoners discussing their crimes, the impact on their families and the Storybook program, has become the first film accepted into the Undergraduate Ethics Symposium at Depauw University in Indiana slated for April 9 to 11…
Ex-UA professor, sculptor dies
Tuscaloosa News – March 11
Angelo ‘Jack’ Granata, a longtime professor of art at the University of Alabama, died Tuesday morning after an illness…He joined the UA art department in 1949 and served as chair from 1968 until 1981. Granata continued teaching and working as director of UA’s Sarah Moody Gallery of Art until retiring in 1988…
Alpha Phi becomes full chapter
Crimson White – March 11
One hundred-ninety-four women were initiated into the Alpha Phi chapter last Friday making it an official sorority on the UA campus. Each woman signed a charter that will hang in their house, said Gentry McCreary, director of Greek affairs…
Columbia music professor lectures tonight
Crimson White – March 11
Columbia University Professor Elaine Sisman will be giving a lecture titled “Beethoven, Haydn and the Music of Illumination” at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall of Moody Music Building. The event is free to the public. Department of Music Professor Joanna Biermann invited Sisman to participate in the 2008-2009 Endowed Chair in Musicology, which brings musicians from around the world to teach and lecture at the University…