UA wheelchair basketball team wins national title
Tuscaloosa News – April 13
The University of Alabama women’s wheelchair basketball team defeated Illinois 66-36 on Saturday to defend its national championship.
University of Alabama researchers boost growth estimate for state economy
Birmingham News – April 13
Economists at the University of Alabama have boosted their growth estimate for the state’s economy this year. Thanks to a better-than-expected performance in the first quarter, UA’s Center for Business and Economic Research, raised its forecast of Alabama’s real economic growth to 2.2 percent for 2010, up from a predicted 1.9 percent gain…
Ex-HealthSouth head gives students advice
Tuscaloosa News – April 13
Aaron Beam went from a net worth of less than $50,000 to being a millionaire in just a few years. He quickly rose to become one of the most prominent businessmen in Birmingham, and as a co-founder and chief financial officer of one of Alabama’s largest companies, HealthSouth, he once was the toast of Wall Street. Today, Beam is a felon who has served time in prison and who now mows lawns in south Alabama to pay his bills…Beam told his story on Monday to University of Alabama accounting majors and graduate students. He urged them to act ethically in their business careers…
UA opens time capsule
FOX6 (Birmingham) – April 12
Historians and onlookers cracked open a time capsule at the University of Alabama. For the past 100 years it was tucked away in a wall at the university’s museum of natural history…
UA plans to build plaza honoring students who broke the color barrier at UA
WTOK (Meridian, Miss.) – April 12
The University of Alabama board of trustees has approved building a plaza to commemorate integration at the school. Without discussion, the board approved building the plaza outside Foster auditorium…