UA to hold celebration of life memorial for coach Mal Moore
WAFF-NBC (Huntsville) – April 3
A public memorial service will take place tomorrow for former Alabama athletics director Mal Moore. Moore died this past weekend in a North Carolina hospital. He served as Alabama’s athletic director since 1999. The University of Alabama will host a “celebration of life” tomorrow afternoon on campus at Coleman Coliseum.
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Shuttles provided for Moore service
Tuscaloosa News – April 4
A public memorial service for former University of Alabama Director of Athletics Mal Moore will be at 3 p.m. today at Coleman Coliseum on the UA campus. There will be limited public parking at the coliseum or the eastern half of the soccer lot after 1:30 p.m. Parking for people with disabilities will be in the Coleman lot. Crimson Ride buses will provide transportation from the soccer lot to the coliseum and back from 1:45-5 p.m. Parking will also be available in the city of Tuscaloosa’s downtown Intermodal Facility, 601 23rd Ave., with Tuscaloosa Transit shuttle service to the coliseum…Fees are $1 for the general public and 50 cents for seniors/disabled. UA Action Card holders ride free. For those who are unable to attend, TideTV will stream the ceremony on RollTide.com beginning at 2:45 p.m. today online at http://www.rolltide.com/allaccess/?media=383841. Denny Chimes will begin playing at 4 p.m. today in honor of Moore.
Mal Moore: 32 years later his friendly gesture still recalled
Arab Tribune – April 3
The call Saturday afternoon wasn’t unexpected, but it was still sad. Terry “Gobbler” Robinson called to tell me he’d just heard from our mutual friend, Colin “Big C” Macguire, that Mal Moore had died. I immediately recalled my first encounter with then-assistant coach Mal Moore. It was on Alabama’s trip to Pennsylvania in November 1981 for the Penn State game. That trip brings back many memories, including a phone call from Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant one early Friday morning telling me I had a seat on the team plane for the trip to State College…I was the sports editor of The University of Alabama student newspaper, and Bryant’s pursuit of 315 wins was the main reason I stayed on in that position.
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LETTER: Moore worked to impact local youth
Tuscaloosa News – April 3
Dear Editor: Like everyone else that had the privilege of knowing coach Mal Moore and calling him a friend, we share in the sadness of his passing. Coach Moore’s impact on young people in our community stretched well beyond the borders of the University of Alabama campus. For the past 12 years, the Mal Moore Charity Golf Tournament has directly benefited the Boys & Girls Clubs of West Alabama. Coach Moore not only lent his name to our event, but worked tirelessly to ensure its success. His efforts have helped provide a positive place for almost 200 children each day in our after-school programs. On behalf of our board of directors, our staff and most importantly, the kids whose lives he directly impacted, we offer our deepest condolences to coach Moore’s family and friends.
UA honor societies’ inductees tapped on Quad
Crimson White – April 4
Highly achieving students at The University of Alabama will be inducted into its most prestigious and selective honor societies during Friday’s “Tapping on the Mound,” which has occurred at the Capstone since the early 1900s, according to the University’s description of the mound…Austin Gaddis, a senior majoring in communication studies who serves as president of the Anderson Society, said the tapping ceremony is an important part of honoring worthy UA students. “The tapping process on the Mound has become ingrained as a storied university tradition,” Gaddis said.
UA student to attend Cannes Film Festival
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 3
A University of Alabama student is heading to the prestigious Cannes film festival in France for the second year in a row. His invitation comes from a five minute short film that he wrote and directed, and as WVUA’s Victoria Sheehan found out, his travels allow him to be an ambassador for the Crimson Tide way of filmmaking. Stories can be found anywhere, but Alex Beatty has made a successful career of creating them. With the help of his new short film, the 21-year-old is headed to the Cannes Film Festival, where the movie will be aired to audiences from around the world.
Study looks at importance of coping skills during hospital stays
Science Daily – April 3
No mother wants to see her child hospitalized, but how she copes with it could impact the child’s anxiety level, a recent study by a University of Alabama researcher found. As hospitals move toward family-centered care, there is a greater need to evaluate the response of the whole family, not just the patient. By exploring the relationships between hospitalized children’s anxiety level, mothers’ use of coping strategies and mothers’ satisfaction with the hospital experience, Dr. Sherwood Burns-Nader, a child life specialist and assistant professor in UA’s College of Human Environmental Sciences’ department of human development and family studies, hoped to learn more about how the health-care team can promote coping strategies in patients and families. “Coping patterns are important because they facilitate a person’s handling of a stressful experience,” Burns-Nader said. “If someone is going through a tough time, positive coping patterns provide extra resources that can help that person deal with the demand of a stressor.”
Students research child development on campus
Crimson White – April 4
The first time a child says “Roll Tide,” what makes them do so? University of Alabama students from many different departments are looking to answer this question and many more as they observe and write about children and child development through programs facilitated at the on-campus Child Development Research Center. The CDRC is part of the department of human development and family studies in the College of Human Environmental Sciences and houses several programs to assist and teach students and serve the community, including the Children’s Program, a nationally accredited laboratory school program that enrolls around 110 children. Their ages vary from 2 months to 5 years old. “In addition to our teaching roles, we are a research site. We have about 20 research projects ongoing at any one time, and it’s a lot of bells and whistles to go through to get your research approved, because you’re really doing research on human subjects,” Robin Hollingsworth, the Children’s Program director, said. “We’ve had people look at speech and language development, we’ve had students look at what teacher involvement takes away from play – [there is] just a wide variety of things.” An upcoming project, The Roll Tide Study, supervised by Angie Barber from communicative disorders, asks whether early vocabulary development reflects cultural influences – like a young child saying “Roll Tide,” because they’ve heard it during their earliest periods of language development.
Nelson to receive faculty premier service award
Crimson White – April 4
For administrator and professor Mark Nelson, The University of Alabama is not just his workplace, but also an institution that has helped him learn and evolve as a person. “Being a part of this community of scholars has helped me to grow in my scholarship and in my perspective on life and on education as well,” said Nelson, vice president for student affairs, vice provost and professor of communication studies at the University. Nelson started at the University in 1991 as a professor in the communication studies department. From 1996-2006, he served as associate dean for the College of Communication and Information Sciences. He became vice president for student affairs and vice provost in 2008. Nelson has earned various awards throughout his career, including the Knox Hagood Outstanding Faculty Member in Communication, UA’s Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award, the DSR-TKA Outstanding Alumnus Award, and the John Blackburn Outstanding University Advisor Award. Nelson’s 23 years of work at the Capstone have recently earned him another honor. The University has awarded him the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, which recognizes one female, one male and a non-student for their excellent character and service to humanity. The award, which is one of the University’s Premier Awards, is given to those who have demonstrated the highest standards of scholarship, leadership and service.
Junior premier recipient credits award to advisors
Crimson White – April 4
Koushik Kasanagottu, the 2013 William P. Bloom Award recipient, knows how to make his visions a reality. The junior majoring in biology has devoted much of his time at The University of Alabama to diabetes prevention education as the founder and president of the Diabetes Education Team. “I often run into students who are so overwhelmed with trying to do well in their classes and schoolwork, that they have a hard time managing and developing other skills that are just as important for their future career choices,” Pamela Payne-Foster, Kasanagottu’s mentor and faculty in the College of Community Health Sciences, said. “Koushik seems to have learned how to delegate to others as well as provide vision when needed to make Project DIET work. I have seen the constant work, commitment and vision that he has put in to start an organization from scratch and make it grow and flourish.” According to the premier awards website, students are chosen for the Bloom Award primarily for improving, understanding and supporting interaction among groups for a common cause. Kasanagottu dedicated his award to the advisors who have helped guide him throughout his time at the Capstone.
Joshua White receives Sullivan Award
Crimson White – April 4
Although campus and his involvements have evolved with him throughout his time at the Capstone, Joshua White, recipient of The University of Alabama’s Algernon Sullivan Award, has largely stayed the same. “He hasn’t really changed that much over the four years. Yes, he’s matured. But the core ‘good person’ was there when I first met him,” Ron Dulek, John R. Miller professor of management and marketing and White’s faculty mentor, said. “Now he may be a little more confident and certain in his progression, and he knows more, but he is still a good person at his core.” The Sullivan Award is considered the highest honor The University of Alabama offers, according to the Premier Awards website. It is given to graduating seniors to recognize excellence of character and service to humanity. “Words cannot express how honored and humbled I am to have received this award,” White said. “It is by far the greatest honor of my life.” During his time at the Capstone, the senior majoring in economics and finance has served his community in a number of ways from acting as student chairman of the Blackburn Institute to founding the Audie and Kathy White Cancer Research Foundation, a volunteer organization in partnership with the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. Yet, White tips his hat to those who helped him get to where he is today.
Biology student to recieve award for humanism
Crimson White – April 4
Samuel Hand is not a typical college student. Hand, a junior majoring in biology, has split much of his free time as a student at The University of Alabama working on medical mission trips in the Philippines and Kenya and volunteering at the Good Samaritan Health Clinic in Northport, Ala. All of this work has not gone unnoticed. Hand is the recipient of the 2013 John Fraser Ramsey Premier Award. One of the four Premier awards presented to honors students, the Ramsey Award recognizes a junior who has broad humanistic interests and has been a positive influence on their contemporaries, according to the Premier Awards website. “When I found out that I had been awarded the Ramsey, I was quite surprised,” Hand said. “The two previous Ramsey Award winners are friends of mine, and they are incredible people who are have done much for the University. It was hard to believe, and remains somewhat surreal, that I was given the same award that they received in the recent past.”…Currently, Hand is studying abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France. As a French minor, Hand is using his time overseas to learn more about the culture and language, which he hopes will help him in the future. After graduating, Hand said he would like to work as a physician in French-speaking areas of Africa.
Waterfest focuses on cleaning up Tuscaloosa’s main water source
Crimson White – April 4
As part of the second annual Lake Tuscaloosa-North River Waterfest, volunteers will clean the city’s main water source, where they have previously found items such as dishwashers and furniture discarded at the bottom of the lake. Waterfest is a three-day event coordinated by the North River Watershed Management Plan along with other sponsors to raise awareness about the importance of maintaining Tuscaloosa water resources, Mary Wallace Pitts, the plan’s coordinator, said. The fifth annual Clean Our Lake Day on Saturday, is included in this year’s Waterfest…The Waterfest Student Expo on Friday will be geared toward school children from the area. Pre-registered classes from schools within the North River Watershed will team up with volunteers to learn more about the Tuscaloosa water supply said Randy Mecredy, director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History at The University of Alabama. Mecredy, who helped coordinate the expo, said last year’s event received positive reviews and many teachers wanted to return for the event this year … Mecredy said the Expo is a great opportunity for students to learn about their water and how to keep it clean. “What we hope they would take away is becoming informed citizens and then wanting to take some sort of action like the lake clean-up day and keeping Lake Tuscaloosa clean in the future,” Mecredy said.
College Republicans to host congressman
Crimson White – April 4
College Republicans will host Congressman Mo Brooks for a speech and question-and-answer session open to all students, Thursday at 5 p.m. in Russell Hall. “He will be speaking about his life and career, on many issues of the day and some of his work in Congress. He’s had such a great career, so we’ll all have a lot to learn and talk about,” said Joe Elia, a freshman majoring in accounting and treasurer of College Republicans. Steph Petelos, a senior majoring in economics and environmental science and president of College Republicans, said the congressman is excited to answer the tough questions anyone may have for him. “He takes pride in being accountable to his constituents,” Petelos said.