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MONDAY, OCT. 28 – SUNDAY, NOV. 3, 2013

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UA MUSEUM GHOST TOUR READY TO SPOOK AND DELIGHT — The community is invited to experience some of the legends that have been passed down from generation to generation during the third annual Haunting at the Museum from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29. Sponsored by UA’s Alabama Museum of Natural History, the free event is open to all ages and features guided, candlelit ghost walks around the Quad, followed by children’s activities, a scavenger hunt and ghost stories at the museum. Contact: UA media relations, 205/348-5320

TRICK OR TREAT – UA’s Panhellenic Association will host the annual Sorority Row Trick-or-Treat from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29. Children from the Tuscaloosa area ages 12 and younger are invited to dress up in Halloween costumes and visit the lawns of the campus sorority houses on Magnolia and Colonial Drives for candy and fun activities. UA sorority members from the Alabama Panhellenic Association and National Pan-Hellenic Council, also in costume, will provide candy to area children. Contact: Katie Andrews, 205/348-2693 or kmandrews3@crimson.ua.edu or Richard LeComte, UA media relations, rllecomte@ur.ua.eduor205/348-3782

UA STUDENTS, PROFESSORS AUTHOR BOOK CHAPTER ON AUTISM – Three University of Alabama students along with two professors will publish a book chapter detailing their research in developing a smart phone application for children with autism. The app is designed to boost the interpersonal communication skills of children with autism. Watch UA News (www.uanews.ua.edu) for more information or contact Adam Jones, UA engineering media relations, at 205/348-6444 or acjones12@eng.ua.edu.

UA RESEARCHERS LOOK TO BUTTERFLIES TO IMPROVE FLIGHT – Dr. Amy Lang, associate professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics, was recently awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to get a better understanding of the aerodynamic properties of butterfly wings as an avenue to improve human-made flight. Visit http://uanews.ua.edu/2013/10/ua-researchers-look-to-butterflies-to-improve-flight/ or contact Adam Jones, UA engineering media relations, 205/348-6444 or acjones12@eng.ua.edu, or Dr. Amy Lang, 205/348-1622 or alang@eng.ua.edu

CHINESE PROFESSORS TO VISIT SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK – UA’s School of Social Work will host four Chinese social work professors Monday through Wednesday this week. UA is one of seven American universities partnered with universities in China to help develop master’s level social work programs in China. UA Social Work faculty members held workshops in China during a two-week trip during the summer and have had faculty members hold similar workshops in Hong Kong over the last 20 years. Additionally, select social work students have participated in an annual two-week trip to Hong Kong during that span. While in Tuscaloosa, Chinese professors will visit social service agencies in the area and observe UA faculty during lectures. The trip will conclude with a pot-luck lunch Wednesday afternoon. For more information, contact David Miller at 205/348-0825 or dcmiller2@ur.ua.edu.

UA EXPERT TIPS

WORDS TO USE, AVOID DURING JOB INTERVIEWS — There are many things you can do, or say, during a job interview that could either help you land the job or ensure you’ll never hear from that job prospect again. Travis Railsback, executive director of UA’s Career Center, offers a few tips on what words to use, or avoid, during that all-important job interview. Visit http://uanews.ua.edu/2013/10/ua-matters-words-to-use-avoid-during-job-interviews/. Contact: UA media relations, 205/348-5320.

UA’S HEALTH CORNER PROVIDES PRACTICAL HEALTH TIPS – Dr. Harriet Myers shares ways to manage stress in the latest video in UA’s Health Corner, http://uanews.ua.edu/videos/ua-health-corner-managing-stress/. The video series addresses various health topics and provides practical advice and guidance from UA’s expert sources and physicians in the College of Community Health Sciences. A new video topic posts every Wednesday morning. Contact: UA media relations, 205/348-5320.

EVENTS

UA STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING AND ART HOST FIRST FRIDAY EXHIBIT – An art show sponsored by The University of Alabama brings interactive new media technologies and 3-D fabrication to Tuscaloosa’s Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in November. The show, called [ENTER]Connect, opens with the First Friday event Nov. 1 and culminates in a larger Nov. 22 exhibition. Students will display work created by new media technologies such as 3-D printing, 3-D scanning, microcontrollers and projection mapping. The Arts Council Gallery and University of Alabama Arts & Sciences Gallery at the Cultural Arts Center will be open during the monthly First Friday from noon to 8 p.m. Nov. 1. Watch UA News (www.uanews.ua.edu) for more information or contact Adam Jones, UA engineering media relations, 205/348-6444 acjones12@eng.ua.edu.

LOOKING AHEAD

TINKER TOUR COMES TO UA – In the 1960s, Mary Beth Tinker was one of several middle- and high-school students sent home for wearing black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War. The case would eventually be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled to protect the free-speech rights of the students. Now Tinker is touring the United States to tell her story and will visit UA on Nov. 5. Her talk will be at 9:30 a.m. in the Ferguson Theater and will be free to the public. Tinker’s visit is sponsored by the Alabama Scholastic Press Association and the department of journalism. ASPA, along with the Alabama Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, will also sponsor a talk by Tinker at Birmingham’s Civil Rights Museum at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5; this event will be for high school students but will also be open to media. Contact: Misty Mathews, 205/348-6416, mmathews@ua.edu or Meredith Cummings, UA scholastic media director, 205/348-2772, mccummings1@ua.edu.

TOWN HALL MEETING – UA’s Honors College presents the second in its series of Town Hall discussions, “Student Debt,” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4, in the Ferguson Center Forum. The event is free and open to the public. Participants are Helen Allen, UA director of Student Financial Aid; Alabama Rep. Bill Poole, R-Tuscaloosa, chair of the House Education Budget Committee; and Dr. Stephen Katsinas, director of the Education Policy Center and UA professor of higher education administration. Contact: Richard LeComte, media relations, rllecomte@ur.ua.edu, 205/348-3782

UA TO HOST SYMPOSIUM ON RACE RELATIONS – The College of Arts and Sciences, the Institute for Social Science Research, the department of gender and race studies, the department of political science and the School of Social Work will host a symposium titled “Student Perceptions of Race Relations at the University of Alabama: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” from 1 to 4 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 6 in Gorgas Library room 205.  The event will feature research presentations on several dimensions of campus race relations by UA faculty, as well as several distinguished researchers across the disciplines of psychology, sociology, and political science. For more information, contact Bobby Mathews, UA media relations, 205/348-4956 or bwmathews1@ur.ua.edu.

AUTHOR EXPLAINS WHAT UA’S GRIDIRON SUCCESS MEANS FOR THE SOUTH – The University’s historical (and current) achievements on the gridiron are the subject of a talk by Dr. Randy Roberts, an American historian, at 6 p.m., Nov. 7 in Gorgas Library room 205. “Five Reasons Why Alabama Football Matters to History” explores the Crimson Tide’s success during bleak economic and political climates in the South, and why those on-the-field victories were so important to Southern culture. Roberts’ appearance is sponsored by the Summersell Center for the Study of the South and co-sponsored by the department of American studies. For more information, contact Bobby Mathews, UA media relations, 205/348-4956 or bwmathews1@ur.ua.edu.

NOVELIST MARGARET WRINKLE HOLDS EXHIBIT AT UA – The next exhibition in The University of Alabama Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, “Wash by Margaret Wrinkle: Seeing Across the Divide,” will be on display from Monday, Nov. 4, to Friday, Nov. 15. The exhibition features a series of photographs taken by Wrinkle at slavery-related sites throughout the South while researching her critically acclaimed novel, Wash. An opening reception, reading, and book signing will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 5:30 p.m. at the University Gallery, 620 Greensboro Ave. in downtown Tuscaloosa. For more information, contact Bobby Mathews, UA media relations, 205/348-4956 or bwmathews1@ur.ua.edu

DANCE ALABAMA! – University of Alabama dance majors take a huge step forward in this student-choreographed production set for Nov. 5-8 in the Morgan Hall auditorium. For more information, contact Bobby Mathews, UA media relations, 205/348-4956 or bwmathews1@ur.ua.edu