UA program brings together music, dance and visual arts
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 2
Inspired by creative writing program director Robin Behn’s Collaboration class, students at the University of Alabama are exploring a variety of methods and art forms to find inspiration as a group. Their effort culminates tonight in ‘Collaborama,’ a performance that brings together music, dance, visual art and film…Tonight’s 5 p.m. performance at Morgan Auditorium will feature 15 different pieces by students in Behn’s graduate level creative writing class, assistant dance professor Sarah Barry’s choreography class and assistant art professor Sarah Marshall’s printmaking class…
Music therapy can reduce pain and anxiety in hospice patients
MedicalNews.net – Dec. 2
…That’s what University of Alabama senior Sarah Pitts found when she brought her music therapy skills to patients in Hospice of West Alabama. “We’ve gotten a lot of encouraging comments from families,” says Pitts, a music therapy major from Memphis, Tenn. “… Pitts’ experiences in hospice care inspired her to research how students doing clinical practice in hospices react to the experience. She won the E. Thayer Gaston Award for outstanding student paper, and she continues her survey research with her mentor, Dr. Andrea Cevasco, assistant professor of music at UA. The resulting article is titled “A Survey of Music Therapy Students’ Practical Experiences in Hospice and Palliative Care.”…
Creative Campus event combines art to honor Lucas’ book
Crimson White – Dec. 2
Tuesday afternoon, Charlie Lucas, Ben Windham, Chip Cooper and Michele Myatt Quinn came to visit Maxwell Hall to introduce their new book, “Tin Man: Charlie Lucas.” The event, sponsored by Creative Campus and the University of Alabama Press, included a book signing, a discussion with the artists, a reception and an interactive art demonstration that allowed guests to express themselves through a simple form of art…
Instructor edits ancestor’s journal
Crimson White – Dec. 2
Betty Florey, an instructor in the UA Honors College, knew nothing about African history when she read her great-grandfather’s account of his years in what is now Nigeria…Florey recently edited and released “In Africa’s Forest and Jungle: Six Years Among the Yorubans,” which chronicles the travels of Richard Henry Stone, a Baptist missionary who served with the Yoruba people throughout the 1850s and ’60s. Stone wrote the book after coming back from Africa and originally published it in 1899…
Professor and student co-author nationally recognized article
Crimson White – Dec. 2
In a rare collaboration, a UA undergraduate and an assistant professor in the English department have co-authored a nationally recognized article to be published in a top academic journal in May. Professor Emily Wittman and Katrina Windon, a senior majoring in English and Spanish, worked together for two semesters to research and create the article, which argues the value in a translation studies pilot class that Wittman taught at the University in spring 2008…Few undergraduates are exposed to translation studies in English departments, despite it being a big part of literary history and a whole area of education in English literature that students need to know about, Wittman said. The article will be published in the College English, a national academic journal that accepts scholarly articles relating to English studies…Student-professor collaboration is rare in the humanities division of the University, but with successes like this collaboration, the College of Arts and Sciences is looking to continue to increase these types of academic projects, said Robert Olin, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “One of the priorities of the College over the last seven years has been to increase opportunities for students to conduct research and perform creative activities in partnership with faculty members,” Olin said. “This kind of experience jump starts a student’s career and graduate study. Over the last year, more than 1,400 such experiences have been directed by faculty in the College.”…
Angel Tree Project helps families of incarcerated
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 2
Several University of Alabama swimmers, runners, basketball players, baseball players, softball players, gymnasts and rowers came to Coleman Coliseum on Tuesday night to hand out gifts for the Prison Fellowship Angel Tree Project. For the past 18 years, UA has contributed to the Angel Tree Project. As part of the Prison Fellowship program — a nationwide ministry that reaches out to prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families — the Angel Tree Project was started to help provide for children of incarcerated parents…For this year’s program, UA athletics donated more than $4,000. ‘All University of Alabama sports take part in this program each year. The students are very much involved, which is great. UA’s involvement is one of the longest-running Angel Tree collegiate branch in the nation,’ said Mark Earley, Prison Fellowship president.
Crimson White – Dec. 2