Vigil to honor victims tonight
Crimson White – June 1
Tonight at 8 p.m., the city of Tuscaloosa will hold a candlelight vigil at Government Plaza to honor those affected by the EF-4 tornado that tore through Tuscaloosa. The event will begin with a live performance by the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra at 7:30. In addition to music, a video will be shown…The University of Alabama has been a partner in organizing the event with the city of Tuscaloosa, Maddox said. “The University has been absolutely phenomenal,” he said. “We haven’t had the time in the past four weeks to organize an event or provide logistical support and the University just said ‘we want to do this for the community.’ That’s just another example of the University stepping up and being a community partner…
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Class of 2011
NBC Nightly News – May 31
NBC Nightly News aired a commencement story that included UA Student Michael Wynn. Their website included additional footage of UA students James Fowler, Kelsey Stein, and Laura Mould.
UA students receive research fellowships
Crimson White – June 1
Out of more than 12,000 applicants, three University of Alabama students received graduate research fellowships. Amanda Hanninen, Zack Coppens and Rachel McCarty were among 2,000 students selected nationwide. The Graduate Research Fellowship Program grants up to $121,500 per student to be used for a research-focused master’s or doctoral degree…
UA’s SIFE team competes, places at nationals
Crimson White – June 1
The Students in Free Enterprise organization recently won first runner-up at the SIFE USA National Exposition, which was held in Minneapolis, Minn., May 10 through 12. The competition was composed of top colleges that qualified to participate in front of 20 to 25 prestigious companies and their CEOs. SIFE is an international organization that helps make differences globally and in the local community. The organization uses basic principles to first impact the local community and later the global community…Members of UA SIFE presentation team said that they overcame obstacles to make it to nationals because of the recent tornado that devastated Tuscaloosa. Though the team thought at first that they wouldn’t be able to make it to nationals, UA SIFE finished at the top of the competition with the program’s saying “SIFE for Life.”…UA SIFE has four projects: 6 Sides, Microfinance, the Green Team, and the ABC Project, Moten said…
EDITORIAL: UA softball provides hope amid disaster
Tuscaloosa News – June 1 ( page all of 2 )
Just when tornado-ravaged Tuscaloosa found itself in need of a feel-good story, it came last weekend in the unlikely form of the University of Alabama softball team’s nearly miraculous comeback on Saturday to win a spot in the Women’s College World Series. No — strike that. Since the tornado hit Tuscaloosa on April 27, killing 41, injuring more than 1,000 and leaving much of the town decimated, there have been plenty of feel-good stories of our people pulling together and beginning the process of rebuilding with a determination the UA Athletic Department itself would be proud of…For the legion of fans who will follow them from Tuscaloosa to Oklahoma City and those of us back home watching on television monitoring the progress of these “tornado girls,” it will hardly matter if they win the tournament. They have already won so much more by surviving, thriving and, most of all, inspiring.
E-Book depicts Tuscaloosa after tornado
Crimson White – June 1
…the E-Book’s creator Brian Oliu…is a creative writing professor at The University of Alabama who brought together a group of authors to publish the book called “Tuscaloosa Runs This.”…The E-Book is a compilation of works from 44 authors, some written before the tornado and others written after. Oliu describes the works in the anthology as “attempts to capture what it is we love about this city and what it means to us to repair and rebuild our home.” The book is free and can be downloaded from the book’s website at www.brianoliu.com/ebook/ as well as viewed in Issuu, a program that allows you to read the book as you would if you had it in your hand…
Benefit show aims to help city
Crimson White – June 1
The Roll Tide Relief Benefit Show hopes to lift the spirits of citizens of Tuscaloosa and to also raise money for tornado relief this weekend…The idea for the Roll Tide Relief Benefit Show came from a group of students who wanted to do something that would help. Anne Miles Wilkerson, one of the organizers of the event, said that once they got the word out there many of the bands came to them wanting to participate…