Budding entrepreneurs to get a leg up through new incubator in downtown Birmingham
Birmingham News – Sept. 1
Budding entrepreneurs and home-based businesses that cater to urban communities are the focus of a new incubator being launched this fall in downtown Birmingham. The Urban Business Incubator…is the brainchild of Birmingham’s Karen Starks, a University of Alabama assistant professor of social work….The incubator is an arm of Starks’ Community Entrepreneurship Institute, a nonprofit she founded in 2005 to help launch nonprofit and for-profit businesses that provide products and services in urban areas like Birmingham. She leases space in the A.G. Gaston Building, and houses her Teen Entrepreneurs 3.0 program there, which provides business training and a summer camp for 11th graders attending several Birmingham high schools…”My goal is to help nurture successful urban entrepreneurs who will move out of here within one or two years and plant businesses in urban communities that provide jobs and help uplift neighborhoods,” Starks said…
University of Alabama professor hopes new technique will bring new Moundville discoveries
Birmingham News – Aug. 31
A University of Alabama anthropology professor has turned to a geophysical survey tool called a magnetometer to develop a plan to probe without time-consuming extensive digging at 250 unexplored acres in Moundville Archeological Park…Professor John Blitz and a colleague ran a test in April with the instrument. In September Blitz and students will do a test dig to confirm the accuracy of the magnetometer’s indications of clusters of house remains. If they confirm their findings, it could lead to a full survey of the acreage that could confirm suspicions that the famed Moundville site is even more extensive that previously believed…
A Century Later, She’s Still Red Hot
New York Times – Aug. 30
… “Audiences in this period were emerging outside of the Victorian context of ‘true womanhood’ and domesticity,” said Eric Weisbard, an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Alabama who specializes in popular music. “These audiences were open to a different kind of presentation, to women singers who embodied a new kind of public sexuality and public pleasure.”…