All-USA 2nd, 3rd and honorable mention teams excel
USA Today – April 29
Meet the undergraduates named to the second team, third team and honorable mention in USA TODAY’s 20th annual All-USA College Academic Team competition. Second team: …Laura Dover, University of Alabama; home: Jasper, Ala.; majors: Spanish, philosophy; helped create an English-language program for at-risk Hispanic children…Adam Knight, The University of Alabama; home: Tuscaloosa, Ala.; major: biology; has used art to study Parkinson’s disease…•Yhni Thai, The University of Alabama; home: Long Beach, Miss.; major: chemical engineering; an intern at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, created a system to improve analysis of wastewater discharge…Laura Godorecci, The University of Alabama; home: Northport, Ala.; major: interdisciplinary studies; made a documentary on the Slow Food movement…Honorable mention: Alexander Flachsbart, The University of Alabama…
UA students earn academic honor
Tuscaloosa News – April 29
Two local students at the University of Alabama were selected by USA Today for its All-USA Academic Team, published today. In all, five UA students are on the academic team, which is divided into a first, second and third team, along with honorable mentions. Adam Knight, a senior biology major from Tuscaloosa, was named to the second team for his research on Parkinson’s disease. Laura Godorecci, a senior from Northport majoring in interdisciplinary studies and classics, was named to the third team for work on film documentaries, particularly of the slow-food movement. Joining Knight on the second team is Laura Dover, a junior from Jasper majoring in philosophy and Spanish, and Ynhi Thai, a junior from Long Beach, Miss., majoring in chemical and biological engineering Alexander Flachsbart, a senior economics and political science major from Concord, Calif., received an honorable mention. Despite not having a student selected for the first team, which gets $2,500 and the lion’s share of ink in today’s edition of the national newspaper, UA had the highest number of team members of any university entering the competition.
Crimson White – April 29
UA student to play in Paralympic World Cup
Tuscaloosa News – April 29
Jared Arambula, a freshman at the University of Alabama from Valparaiso, Ind., has been named to the USA 23-and-under National Wheelchair Basketball Team.Arambula’s selection was the culmination of a three-day tryout camp at Birmingham’s Lakeshore Foundation and included 25 of the best players in the United States. The team will compete at the Paralympic World Cup, May 19-23, in Manchester, England. The team will also travel to Paris this summer to compete in the Junior World Championships, July 7-9. The freshman kinesiology major was also selected first-team All-American earlier in the month at the collegiate championships in Whitewater, Wis…
Stateless Community College
InsideHigherEd.com – April 29
… other sources do make up for state funding, there will be many of the same obstacles to overcome. “You get the worst of both worlds,” said Stephen G. Katsinas, director of the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. “You have all the regulation with none of the funding. If you think they’ll have one less hoop to jump through, they’ll have every bit of the regulation they had before.” Maricopa, however, is not in the difficult position in which many rural community college districts find themselves. Katsinas said only a large district like Maricopa could possibly attempt to make up for state aid with contracts from business and industry.“To [Maricopa’s] credit, they have the entrepreneurship to try this,” he said. “There aren’t a lot of community college districts in the country that can consider what they’re doing. It’s a sad state of community college funding in this country that so many states are not fully funding their formulas anymore.”
Live version of educational cartoon series comes to UA
Tuscaloosa News – April 29
…’Schoolhouse Rock! Live’…Four shows will be performed at the University of Alabama’s Moody Concert Hall as a fundraiser for the Community Music School…
Crimson white – April 29
Documenting Justice packs Bama Theater
Crimson White – April 29
Crowds of students continued to file into the Bama Theatre well past the 7 p.m. start time Tuesday, clamoring to find seat at the third annual Documenting Justice screening.
The seats were filled with students and community members eager to watch to the six short documentaries produced by University students in the Documenting Justice class…Stephen Black, director of the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility, started the evening’s events with a brief introduction in which he welcomed audience members and praised the efforts of the 12 student filmmakers…
UA Career Center hosts last fair of the year
Crimson White – April 29
Students will have a chance to find jobs and internships at the “Hire Now — Alabama” career fair, which will be held today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Heritage Ballroom at the Ferguson Center. It is hosted by the University of Alabama Career Center…
SGA holds “Office on the Quad”
Crimson White – April 29
The SGA executive staff, senators, directors and “Ideas to Action” team will come together as they move office hours outside to the Quad tomorrow from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m…“We are trying to bring the SGA to the students to make it more accessible to them along with informing them about what the student government is doing to improve student life here at the University,” said Harris Hagood, SGA executive advisor…
Honors College students and faculty compete in half marathon
Crimson White – April 29
…Kristin Sutton, along with 24 other Honors College students and faculty members, got up before dawn to run in Nashville’s Tenth Annual Country Music City’s Half-Marathon last Saturday…Jacqueline Morgan, director of the University Honors Program, said she and Shane Sharpe, interim dean of the Honors College, first thought about organizing a training group to prepare for the half marathon, which is 13.1 miles long, back in January…