BP awards about $800,000 to 18 University of Alabama researchers to study the impact of the Gulf oil spill
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BP has awarded about $800,000 to 18 University of Alabama researchers to study the impact of the gulf oil spill. They will take part in eight separate research projects…
More than 1,000 UA students to work with illiterate
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – Jan. 24
LITE (Literacy Is The Edge) is a group of more than 1,000 students from the University of Alabama in training this week to work with functionally illiterate adults and children…
Raising awareness a goal of UA’s Women in Prison Week
Tuscaloosa News – Jan. 25
More than 2,300 women are incarcerated in Alabama, most of them for nonviolent crimes. To draw attention to the situation, the Women’s Resource Center at the University of Alabama is hosting Women in Prison Week. The week-long awareness project, which started Monday, is meant to educate students about female inmates, specifically those incarcerated at Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka…Monday, students were asked to write letters to incarcerated woman whose names have been provided by the group at the Ferguson Center. Letters are to remain anonymous and simple. The letter-writing campaign will continue through Thursday…A demonstration is planned for Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Quad to visually communicate the living conditions for the inmates at Tutwiler Prison. The week will conclude Friday with a tour of Tutwiler Prison that is open to anyone who is interested. Sign-up sheets are set up at the Ferguson Center. Women in Prison week is being sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center, the Department of Criminal Justice, and Alabama Women’s Resource Network.
Will new legislature really end proration?
Anniston Star – Jan. 25
…Canfield wants the state to adopt a rolling budget based on an average of the last 15 years of revenue. That’s based, he said, on the advice of experts at the University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research, who say the state’s economy tends to run in 10- to 12-year cycles…
The top 10 creative writing MFA program websites
The Huffington Post – Jan. 25
…UA’s webspace gets high marks for the clarity of its descriptions, the thoroughness of its faculty profiles, a more-than-adequate on-site acknowledgment of program peripherals (like an associated journal and the achievements of current students), and its lack of ambiguity regarding critical program features. UA is one of the few programs to explicitly “guarantee” incoming students full funding for a set term of years (four). That’s the longest such guarantee in the world…
Famous concert organist performs at UA’s church music conference
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Jan. 24
…this week at the Capstone, the University of Alabama’s School of Music was proud to have world famous concert organist Dr. Pamela Decker perform at the Moody Music Concert Hall on Saturday. Decker’s compositions have been performed in at least 19 other countries and she has recorded on six different music labels…
UA nutritionist helps students who suffer from food allergies
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Jan. 24
…one nutritionist at the University of Alabama says although it can be expensive, your health should come first. “…as far as my job as a dietitian now…it’s more so us being a better problem solver with the patient in trying to get them to figure out…what’s going to be the most bang for their buck especially when you want to take into consideration that they are on a college budget…