Alabama-Cuba Initiative gives rise to new play at UA
Tuscaloosa News – June 24
Although many things have changed since 2009, when Frank Egusquiza was last in Tuscaloosa as part of the Cuban-American research exchange that became “Un Sueno De Una Noche De Verano,” the familiarity of the city’s faces and places outweighs its differences. … It is the fourth project of the Alabama-Cuba Initiative to wind through translations of text and movement, a fusing of the spirits of U.S. and Cuban styles of performance, to result in one theatrical moment: “Alcestis Ascending.” It will feature more than a dozen Cuban scholar-actor-dancers, joined by some University of Alabama students, and will be performed in Tuscaloosa July 1-5, before moving to an off-off-Broadway run in New York City, then down to Havana to open a theater there. But it’s only the second of such projects for which Seth Panitch, the UA professor who directs and oversees this facet of the program, was able to bring the Cubans to Tuscaloosa for study and rehearsal.
Kimberly Jenkins-Richardson awarded fellowship from NBCC and affiliates
BioPortfolio – June 24
The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors, recently selected Kimberly P. Jenkins-Richardson of Tuscaloosa for the National Board for Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program. As an NBCC MFP Fellow, Jenkins-Richardson will receive funding and training to support her education and facilitate her service to underserved minority populations. The NBCC MFP has distributed $20,000 education awards to Jenkins-Richardson and the 23 other doctoral-level counseling students selected to receive the fellowship award. Kimberly Jenkins-Richardson is both a student and graduate of the University of Alabama, where she has been accepted into the counselor education and supervision program. She is employed by the University of Alabama Counseling Center as a staff therapist and has experience working in community mental health, and public and private substance abuse agencies. As an NBCC MFP Fellow, she hopes to help students of minority and special populations become more receptive to mental health services and diversify the counseling profession through her work as a faculty member.
PRWeb – June 23
Star recognized for public service and more in state journalism awards
Piedmont Journal – June 23
The Anniston Star won five awards announced by the Alabama Press Association on Saturday night during the group’s annual summer convention. … Work by The Star’s summer interns from the University of Alabama Community Journalism master’s program netted third place in the contest’s freedom of information category. The six-person team collected and analyzed more than 1,000 pages of documents detailing spending on 2012 political ads from five television stations in the Birmingham market and published a special report on their findings.
UA student wins college scholarship from LIN Media
WIAT-CBS 42 – June 21
A University of Alabama student is the recipient of a college scholarship from CBS 42’s parent company. Cameron Edgeworth was honored with LIN Media’s 2013 Minority Broadcast Scholarship and Training Program. Edgeworth is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication studies. He is the first in his family to attend college. Edgeworth will receive training in a paid broadcasting internship in Savannah, Ga.
UA has job openings
ABC 33/40 – June 21
According to the Department of Labor, the companies with the most job openings posted last month were Regions Financial and the University of Alabama.
WAFF (Huntsville) – June 21