Honors students help in Black Belt
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – May 23
Working in Marion of Perry County is more than just an assignment for about 15 University of Alabama students. They’re learning a wealth of knowledge about the underprivileged area of the Black Belt. The students are Honors students and among a laundry list of work — Wednesday the students helped to spruce up the Old Lincoln High School…where Coretta Scott King graduated. The building was abandoned in 1970 and has since become sort of a community center for the Marion County Quilters on Tuesdays. Senior citizens now the use the old high school to learn and teach others in the community how to sew and quilt. University of Alabama Honors students chose it as one of several places to do community service. For the past, three weeks they have held technology workshops, done things such as held an art work shop, repaired batting cages at the city park…but the painting and cleaning of Old Lincoln High has been most inspiring. Friday will be the students last day in Marion.
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – May 23
Hartford program issues geriatric social work awards
Phys.org – May 23
The Hartford Scholars Program provides individualized mentorship from top-tier national researchers who offer comprehensive feedback and guidance, and covers travel expenses and registration fees for several gerontology and social work conferences and professional development institutes. The program is funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation and administered by The Gerontological Society of America as a component of the nationwide Geriatric Social Work Initiative, which seeks to expand the training of social workers in order to improve the health and well-being of older people and their families. National Program Director Barbara Berkman, DSW, PhD, works together with a national program advisory committee to select the recipients, which total 125 individuals to date. Listed below are the new scholars and their primary research topics … Avani Shah … University of Alabama … Research Topic: Motivational Interviewing and Self-Administered CBT to Address Depressive Symptoms and Medical Compliance in Older Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients.
Muscle Shoals student to participate in Rural Health Scholars program
Florence Times Daily – May 23
The school year is technically over for Muscle Shoals High School junior Tyler Scales and her classmates. She is looking forward to another month of classes, though. But these classes will be in a college setting. Scales will leave Sunday for the University of Alabama, where she will spend a month taking college coursework in chemistry and creative writing. The classes are part of the Rural Health Scholars program and are designed for 11th-graders interested in working in the medical field in rural Alabama. Scales wants to become a nurse anesthetist and ultimately a physician practicing in family medicine, preferably in a rural setting. “I took a foundations of health science class as a ninth-grader and absolutely fell in love with it,” Scales said. “Now, it’s what really drives me.” Scales plans to attend nursing school at the University of Alabama. She is among 25 students statewide selected to attend the monthlong program this summer. Scales said she was looking to participate in a summer program but never guessed she would find one so well aligned with her career goals. The criteria for the program was a score of at least 22 on the ACT, submission of an essay, teacher recommendations and grades of As and Bs. Health teacher Heather James said Scales is a deserving student who will make the most of the opportunity. “She’s focused and driven and is the very type student this program was looking for,” James said. Scales was selected from among 76 applicants statewide.