UA students, professors go abroad to southern Asia
Tuscaloosa News – May 5
College students spending a summer abroad is nothing new, but the University of Alabama chapter of Engineers Without Borders is taking a different approach. Eleven students and two UA professors are departing Sunday for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, formerly Saigon, and rural Cambodia, where they will work on engineering projects relating to water supplies in the villages. ‘Most of the disease elimination in North America happened due to engineering, not due to medicine,’ said Phillip Johnson, an engineering professor and the director of Engineers Without Borders at UA…The group will work with Joe Brown of UA’s New College, who researches small, household-based water filtration systems. Brown has worked in Southeast Asia for several years on sand and clay pot filters…
Sessions Brings Conservative Cred to Top Judiciary Slot
CQPolitics.com – May 5
…His new role will also require Sessions to manage the minority staff, a task that University of Alabama law professor Bryan Fair said the senator is capable of doing, considering his past experience as a state attorney general. “When he was attorney general he managed a large office with a number of divisions,” Fair said…