Power of Pink gets the spotlight
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 18
…The UA Athletics Department has partnered with the College of Arts and Sciences to install pink lighting on the outside of the coliseum, in honor of the annual event to support breast cancer awareness. “For years, we’ve been lighting up the inside with pink,” associate media relations director Roots Woodruff said. “This year the outside is going to match the inside…The university’s department of art and art history came up with the idea for the pink lighting, which they achieved by fixing plastic pink filters onto all the lights surrounding the coliseum. “I think it’s really terrific to get people from our department out there and showing their work in different venues and getting involved in community service,” said Cathy Pagani, chair of the department of art and art history. “What I like about this, the gymnastics people really encourage us and really enjoy having this kind of collaboration.” The work is being spearheaded by art professors Craig Wedderspoon and Jamey Grimes, who worked with the team’s senior night last year and wanted to get involved with the “Power of Pink” festivities…
Event focuses on Latinos in South
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 18
Latin America will take center stage Friday at the Hotel Capstone during the “Latinas/Latinos in the U.S. South: Immigration, Integration and Identity” conference. The conference, hosted by the University of Alabama, will bring together activists and scholars to look at the lives of Latinas and Latinos in the southern U.S. It is part of a series of national conferences scheduled to address issues affecting the Latino community. “It’s an important conference because it’s one of the first interdisciplinary conferences of the study of Latinos in America,” UA professor Michael Innis-Jiminez said…
UA mechanical engineering professor invents way to start car using gasoline vapors
FOX6 (Birmingham) – Feb. 17
University of Alabama mechanical engineer, Dr. Marcus Ashford, says tailpipe exhaust is highest when you start your car…The active vapor utilization system bottles the vapor from the fuel tank and uses it to start your car.
Career fair a success
Crimson White – Feb. 18
…Jerry Paschal, executive director of the UA Career Center, said the career fair had a positive turnout in student attendance. “Probably the highest percentage of students here would be seniors because they are about to graduate. There are always juniors and sophomores here who are looking for internships though,” Paschal said…
Cashin discusses issues with race
Crimson White – Feb. 18
Sheryll Cashin, a law professor at Georgetown University, spoke Wednesday at the Ferguson Center about the current state of race relations in America…George Daniels, associate professor in the department of journalism, said Cashin’s speech challenged the way people should approach race. “She is asking us to think about what is truly required for a multicultural society, and in her speech, she gave a more advanced idea of what diversity should be,” Daniels said…
Higher Ed Day Rally starts next month
Crimson White – Feb. 18
In March, UA students, faculty, staff and alumni will join their peers from Alabama’s 12 other four-year public universities to advocate legislative support for higher education at the Higher Ed Day Rally. Gordon Stone, executive director of the Higher Education Partnership, said supporters of Alabama colleges will gather on the steps of the Alabama State House in Montgomery for the March 4 rally to remind legislators that their decisions on university funding impact the lives of thousands of Alabamians…