UA’s master plan updated with Bryce repurposing
Gadsden Times – Nov. 21
The University of Alabama is considering transforming the main building on the Bryce Hospital campus into a cultural arts center, including space for museums and the performing arts, according to the latest …
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 20
UA Researchers Release Findings of Holiday Driving Study Before Thanksgiving
WBRC-Fox 6 – Nov. 18
Researchers at the University of Alabama have been studying holiday drivers for ten years, FOX6 video journalist Neal Posey caught up with them this busy driving season and has the results. Kelsey and Lauren are freshman at the University of Alabama, And they’re looking forward to travelling for their first thanksgiving as students. I’m from Massachusetts.
KTVU-Fox, San Francisco, CA – Nov. 18
West Alabama Food Bank Sees Great Need for Donations; UA Students Help
WVTM-NBC 13 – Nov. 18
The food bank has been serving those people, as well as the people they have always served. So we have a great need for more donations this year. The University of Alabama doesn’t count the number of cans they’ve received until the very end. But the last few days of the food drive, they’ve taken truck loads to the west Alabama food bank. Once the can goods arrive at the food bank, different organizations and churches, like forest lake Baptist church, distribute the food to people like Bernadette Blackmon.
Acts of Kindness Fund helps students, faculty recover
Crimson White – Nov. 21
In the days following the widespread destruction caused by the tornado on April 27, the University launched the UA Acts of Kindness Fund, a program used to provide financial assistance to negatively affected employees and students who qualify under the guidelines of this emergency-assistance program.
School buses still considered safest student transport five years after deadly Lee High crash
Huntsville Times – Nov. 20
The crash prompted then-Gov. Bob Riley to create a task force to study whether seat belts in school buses would have saved lives and prevented injuries. The three-year study, conducted by the University of Alabama, put seat belts and cameras in 12 school buses in school districts across state, including Madison.
LEND A HAND: UA’s Students Helping Heroes plans to adopt Marine platoon
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 20
A new student organization at the University of Alabama is working to promote awareness of troops and veterans on campus.
Beat Auburn, Beat Hunger food drive looks for late surge in donations
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 19
The annual Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive ended Friday afternoon, with this year’s effort to alleviate hunger around the state a little different than previous years.
Unemployment rates drop for state, county
Anniston Star – Nov. 19
The majority of the gains in employment came from the trade, transportation and utilities sector, the government sector and the professional and business services sector. “That’s quite a bit,” James Cover, professor of economics at the University of Alabama said of the decrease. “That’s a very good sign. I don’t know what this means for the next month or the month after, but I think this is a very good report.”
More Jobs in Morgan
Decatur Daily – Nov. 19
Ahmad Ijaz, an economist with the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama, said Morgan County’s unemployment rate dropped because “there were jobs added, the number of employed went up, the number of unemployed dropped, and the civilian labor force increased.”
Alabama House Majority Leader Micky Hammon credits new immigration law with lowering state unemployment
Birmingham News – Nov. 18
Ahmad Ijaz, the University of Alabama economist, said he believes it’s a stretch to credit the immigration law for Alabama’s declining unemployment figure. He said it is too soon to tell whether the law is actually creating jobs for state residents.