Program helps teenage girls develop higher self-esteem
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 12
…Kim Do, a University of Alabama sophomore volunteer with the Beautiful Health program, said it’s easy to spot girls with low self-confidence by their body language and conversations…To help area teen and pre-teen girls cope, Jackie Parks, a UA senior who is president of UA’s Project Health initiative, created the Beautiful Health program. In January, Parks and a group of UA students trained as mentors began a 15-week program at Hillcrest Middle School that features a series of workshops on mental, social, physical and spiritual health…As part of an Honors College independent study course, Parks researched issues that affect young women — such as peer pressure, poor body image, low self-esteem and unhealthy interpersonal relationships — and ways these issues could be corrected or prevented…
Neil Gaiman: A rock star among writers
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 12
… the University of Alabama’s Creative Campus. The group is is co-sponsoring the writer’s reading and talk Thursday at the Bama Theatre, in conjunction with the Office of Academic Affairs, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series. The Gaiman event may be the biggest appearance here by a best-selling novelist since John Irving’s reading and Margaret Atwood’s residency, both of them more than two decades ago, or Kurt Vonnegut’s one-night appearance in 1994…
MBA students to run in marathon for charity
Crimson White – Feb. 12
More than 35 students from the UA Manderson Graduate School in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration will run in the ninth-annual Mercedes-Benz Marathon in Birmingham Friday through Sunday. An additional 10 student volunteers from the MBA program will help set up water stations and pass out water and energy gels to marathon participants, said David Drummond, a first-year master’s of business administration student and the organizer of the MBA marathon team…
Stripped-down storytelling benefits play
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 12
Perhaps a sad tale is best in winter, but ‘The Winter’s Tale,’ (University of Alabama Department of Theatre and Dance production) as cut and directed by Guy Fauchon, really isn’t terribly sad. It’s more melancholy, a sigh in the wind; a romance in which darkness falls through the forest so the journey becomes the more ennobling. Long considered one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays,’ ‘Winter’s Tale’ has been solved, in a sense, by Fauchon’s carving of the story to its icy, mythological bones…
Donations increase before election
InsuranceNewsNet.com – Feb. 12
…David Lanoue, chairman of the University of Alabama political science department, said it was not unusual that both political parties were spending large amounts of money for a special election.”Obviously, whoever wins the election is going to be the frontrunner going into the next race,” Lanoue said. “If you are going to have an influence on the seat, now is the time to make your move.”
Workshop to discuss genealogy
Crimson White – Feb. 12
The workshop “Resources for Researching African-American Genealogy” will take place Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon in 110 AIME Building and will teach students, faculty and other members of the community how to conduct family history research. The workshop is a part of the UA African-American Heritage Month, according to a UA news release. Pamela Foster, UA assistant professor of community and rural medicine, said the workshop will have Franzine Taylor as guest speaker. Taylor, author of “Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama: A Resource Guide,” will be teaching the workshop, Foster said…Priscilla Davis, president of the UA Black Faculty and Staff Association, said the department of gender and race studies teamed up with the UA Black Faculty and Staff Association to create the workshop…