Attorney General Eric Holder to speak at UA event honoring Harper Lee
Mobile Press-Register – Sept. 14
U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder will be the keynote speaker during an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee’s book “To Kill A Mockingbird” on Tuesday, Sept. 21 at the University of Alabama Law School. The event is to take place at 3:45 p.m. at the law school’s McMillan Lecture Hall. Lee, a Monroeville resident who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007, attended the University of Alabama School of Law during the late-1940s. Holder is married to Dr. Sharon Malone, whose sister Vivian’s attempt to register for classes at then-segregated Alabama in 1963 was blocked by Gov. George Wallace. The event is free and open to the public, but seating will be limited…
TV host says States’s bio-diversity impressive
Opelika-Auburn News – Sept. 13
…The show’s host for those 25 years, Dr. Doug Phillips, spoke on “Alabama’s Natural Diversity” at the OLLI at Auburn information fair and general membership meeting Monday at the Lexington Hotel in Auburn. Phillips is the Alabama Museum of Natural History’s coordinator of environmental information and education at The University of Alabama…
University of Alabama junior wins trip to New York and chance to become texting champion
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – Sept. 13
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Sept. 13
UA junior Catherine Rienagel is trying to become the fastest texter in the nation. Reinagel is a finalist in the fastest texting competition that will be held in New York.
The Pressure of Race
Chronicle of Higher Education – Sept. 14
…”The fundamental thing is that Lance shows the cultural contribution to race,” says William W. Dressler, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, who was the outside reader on Gravlee’s doctoral dissertation. “Everyone talks about this, but no one has tried to pin it down.”…
School News
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 14
…Paul W. Bryant High School-Lisa Matherson, social studies teacher, attended three professional development seminars during the summer. She attended the local Teaching American History Program seminar hosted by the University of Alabama…