UA honor students will aid Black Belt residents
Birmingham News – May 16
Two dozen honors students from the University of Alabama will spend the coming week in Marion working on public-service projects. As part of the University Fellows Experience, the students met with leaders in the Perry County community to learn about its needs, and designed their projects to address them…Students will conduct workshops for children and adults, repair homes and work on several projects intended to help boost tourism, the university announced. They plan to: Choreograph and produce a dance video with students at Francis Marion High School. Conduct a fly-in today at Vaiden Field to showcase recent gains at the airport. Produce photo exhibitions to be shown in August in Marion, Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. Conduct health and college-preparation workshops for children, and finance workshops for adults.
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – May 16
UA Named 12th Most Beautiful University in the Country
…”College Finder” named the school the 12th most beautiful University in the country…
NBC13 (Birmingham) – May 17
FOX6 (Birmingham) – May 16
CBS42 (Birmingham) – May 15
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – May 15
UA Physicist Discusses the Movie “Angels and Demons”
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – May 15
…the plot also involves physics, and that’s got scientists glad an unglamorous topic like physics is getting some Hollywood attention…Dr. Louis Clavellii is also planning to host a non-technical talk about the movie and the physics May 22nd…
Obama administration calls for complete elimination of sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenders
Birmingham News – May 18
…”It would be hard to overestimate the significance of this step,” said Adam Lankford, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama. “There is no doubt that the disproportionate sentences punish African-Americans engaged in similar crimes as whites and Hispanics.”…
UA students named Goldwater scholars
Birmingham News – May 17
For the third year in a row, three students from the University of Alabama were named Goldwater Scholars. The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence Foundation selected Kurt Barry, Rebecca Long and Ynhi Thai among 278 students nationwide to receive scholarships that will cover the costs of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to $7,500 a year.
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald – May 17
Education briefs
Birmingham News — May 17
The University of Alabama has received the Franklin M. Setzer Outstanding Urban Design Award from the Alabama Chapter of the American Planning Association for the UA Campus Master Plan and Design Guide. — The University of Alabama National Alumni Association recently announced the winners of its outstanding student and alumni awards… — The University of Alabama Graduate School announced the 2009 Outstanding Graduate Student award recipients during UA Honors Day earlier this month… — Jared Arambula, a freshman at the University of Alabama, has been named to the 2009 USA 23-and-under National Wheelchair Basketball Team – The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences’ journalism, advertising and public relations, and telecommunication and film degree programs have been reaccredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. — The Bernard Osher Foundation has awarded a second $50,000 grant to the University of Alabama for the Osher Reentry Scholarship Program, which assists students who have experienced an interruption of five years or more in their education and want to resume their undergraduate studies to complete their degree. — Two University of Alabama engineering students, Taylor Hall and Anika Kuczynski, were named recipients of a grant provided by the German Academic Exchange Service, which will enable them to travel to two German universities and conduct research with a German doctoral student.