Alabama football, 4 other Crimson Tide sports recognized for top APR scores
Al.com – June 5
The Alabama football team can officially say it’s at the head of the class both on and off the field. The two-time defending BCS National Champion Crimson Tide was the only SEC football program and one of five Alabama sports to be recognized today with an NCAA Division I Public Recognition Award. These awards go to programs that had multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores in the top 10 percent of their respective sport for the 2011-12 academic year. The Alabama women’s golf was recognized for the third consecutive year and the women’s tennis team collected its second in a row. The national champion men’s golf team and men’s basketball team were also honored. Among SEC schools, only Vanderbilt (six) had more sports recognized than Alabama, which has had at least one sport honored in each year since 2005.
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UA researchers study tornado damage in Moore, Oklahoma
NBC 13 (Birmingham) – June 5
Four professors and four students spent several days surveying damage along the May 20th tornado’s path. With the team from UA as the lead, six different universities gathered in Moore, Oklahoma to research the way homes were constructed and how they withstood the EF-5 tornado.
For National Merit, Achievement scholars, offers at in-state schools often too good to resist
Al.com – June 5
Jeff Rogers isn’t ashamed to say football played a role, however small, in his college choice. But even though he grew up cheering for the Crimson Tide, the Mountain Brook High School graduate also had his eyes on schools outside his home state, namely the University of Virginia and Wake Forest University, which both ranked at least 50 spots ahead of UA in the latest U.S. News and World Report ranking of America’s colleges … The University of Alabama sponsored 208 National Merit scholarships in 2012 and enrolled a total of 241 National Merit scholars, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation’s 2011-2012 report. UA also enrolled 20 National Achievement scholars, a distinction for high-achieving black high school students. Auburn enrolled 62 scholars and sponsored 50 scholarships. UAB enrolled 11 scholars and sponsored nine scholarships. Combined, the three schools enrolled more National Merit scholarship awardees than Harvard University’s 268 or the University of Chicago’s 301. UA enrolled the most awardees of any public college.
Science teachers take part in summer camp at UA
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – June 5
Many teachers are headed back to school this summer. But this time, they’re the students. Science teachers from across Alabama and Georgia are taking part in an ASM International Camp at the University of Alabama. They’re conducting lab experiments they can teach their students in the fall. The focus of this experiment was to see which metals corrode the fastest.
Moundville hosts day camp
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – June 5
The Moundville Archeological Park is hosting its 15th annual Native American Day Camp. Children can go back in time now to live like the southeastern Native Americans.
UA’s College of Community Health Sciences holds panel discussion on integration
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – June 5
… Community leaders have gathered to learn from history. The University of Alabama’s Health Sciences held a panel discussion …
UA Scholastic Media Director Places in National Competition
Big News Network – June 5
Meredith Cummings, director of scholastic media and a journalism instructor at The University of Alabama, placed third nationally in the blogging category of the National Federation of Press Women’s 2013 Communications Contest.