UA students elect new SGA President
WALB-NBC (Albany, Ga.) – March 12
For the first time in 39 years, students at The University of Alabama have elected a black Student Government Association President. Elliot Spillers was congratulated by his fellow University of Alabama students after Tuesday’s victory. In 1976, Cleo Thomas made history at The University of Alabama becoming the first black SGA President.
UA students can now minor in cyber crime
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – March 12
The University of Alabama will now allow students to minor in cyber crime. The 18 credit hour minor will begin this fall. It will include classes in the department of Computer Science, Psychology and Accounting.
Nisa Miranda laying groundwork for new Gulf State Park facility
Gulf Coast News Today – March 13
A new facility on the beach in Gulf State Park will may be a few years from reality, but Nisa Miranda of the University of Alabama Center for Economic Development is hard at work laying the groundwork for the project. On March 6 she was the guest speaker for the Coastal Alabama Business Chamber’s First Friday Forum at LuLu’s. She’ll lead a community Gulf State Park Master Plan Open House forum on the new facility on March 26 at the Orange Beach Community Center. Miranda, the director of the center at the university, is primarily focused on community relations surrounding the building of the new facility. Before Hurricane Ivan in September of 2004 the state park operated a hotel on the site. It was damaged beyond repair in the storm and torn down. This stretch of prime beach has remained empty since. Miranda and her staff’s job is to make a case for the facility as not just a meeting space and a place for tourists to catch some rays. “I’m the one to focus on how we can work with the community and community relations,” Miranda said.
UA students to go on Alternative Spring Break
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – March 12
Some University of Alabama students are planning an alternative Spring Break, where they will travel for a service project, and for the first time they’ll be starting a project that will last for at least five years. The University of Alabama is part of a group of schools that have committed to long-term service in Nicaragua. The schools rotate traveling there. UA has committed to going there at least once a year for the next five years. The group of 16 students and two faculty members will leave Sunday. They say the idea is to serve in a way that is best for each community.
4 Questions About School Success for B-School Alumni
U.S. News – March 12
The phrase “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know” may be particularly relevant to the most recent crop of MBAs. When it comes to explaining their success, recent business school graduates attribute more of their achievement to their connections and networks compared with graduates from earlier classes, according to a February report from the Graduate Management Admission Council. Fostering a networking while in school – especially one that includes alumni – can be invaluable, some say. “There is a difference between the corporate world and what you would find at school,” says J. Michael Hardin, dean of the Culverhouse College of Commerce at the University of Alabama and a member of the board for GMAC. Networking can help students learn how their classroom work translates to the real world, he says. Prospective and current business school students can usually find alumni through LinkedIn or a school’s career services office. Once they make that connection, business school experts suggest they ask alumni four questions that can help soon-to-be MBAs get through school and excel in a career.
Yahoo! – March 12
Here’s why people talk in their sleep
Business Insider – March 12
Sure, you can have my phone number. It’s like having a direct line to God. But better, because I answer. Hold me. I want you to feel greatness. I’m like medicine. Take me twice before going to bed. Warning: I will cause sexiness. I’m not fat. It’s just my awesomeness swelling up inside me. These sound like bad pickup lines or something you might read on a T-shirt, right? Well, they did eventually make it on T-shirts, but the egomaniacal zingers were first uttered by a man who spewed out jokes (and not-fit-for-print phrases) in his sleep. Sleep Talkin’ Man — the name Adam Lennard and his wife use to refer to his alter ego — was born in February 2009 when he shouted, “Enough with the cheese! Enough!” … To find out more about the sleep disorder and what you should do if you or your bed partner starts cracking jokes or uttering nonsense in the middle of the night, U.S. News talked with Ilene Rosen, an associate professor in the division of sleep medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and Natalie Dautovich, a National Sleep Foundation environmental scholar and assistant professor of psychology at the University of Alabama … “For most people, the talking won’t do any physical harm,” Dautovich says. “It could just possibly be embarrassing and disruptive to other people who share the same bedroom.”
State officials: Trooper shortage reaches ‘critical’ stage
Fox 8 (New Orleans) – March 12
Alabama’s highways are in desperate need of more troopers. The troopers are working with a skeleton crew and they have been doing everything they can to operate with limited resources and an extremely tight budget. But they have less than half the number of officers they need and agency heads say something needs to be done. … A recent study by the University of Alabama’s Center for Advanced Public Safety, which is independent of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) and the former Alabama Department of Public Safety, found that the state should have a minimum of 1,016 troopers patrolling Alabama’s highways. Currently, there are only 431 troopers assigned to Highway Patrol.
WSFA-NBC (Montgomery) – March 13
Free legal services clinic set next week for Avondale
Al.com – March 12
Legal Services Alabama will team up Wednesday with University of Alabama School of Law students to provide a free legal clinic in Avondale. The event will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. March 18 at Avondale Samaritan Place, located at 3829 5th Avenue South. The event is open to the public and intended for those that cannot afford legal aid on their own. No appointment is necessary. Walk-ins are welcome. While the clinic will focus on wills and power of attorney documents a general help desk also will be provided as well. “The intent is to serve members of the community that need legal help but are not be able to afford an attorney,” according to a statement from Legal Services of Alabama and Samaritan Place.
Program 39: Zeroed Out in Arizona / A More Assertive Gates Foundation (audio)
Inside Higher Ed – March 12
On our March 13 program, Pima Community College District’s Lee D. Lambert and Stephen Katsinas of the University of Alabama join Inside Higher Ed’s Scott Jaschik and the moderator Casey Green to analyze Arizona’s decision to end state funding for Pima and the Maricopa County Community College District.
Connect Mentoring program, Success Prep Academy help students in Tuscaloosa area succeed
Tuscaloosa News – March 12
The mentor and her student agree: The Success Prep Academy at Oak Hill School benefits both. Charice Corbin said being a mentor has been a rewarding opportunity to give back to the Tuscaloosa community on a personal level. “We’re trying to make them see how to be successful by providing an example, helping them with whatever issues they may have, guide them and just get them to graduate,” said Corbin, an 18-year-old University of Alabama freshman from Killeen, Texas, who is majoring in psychology. Arkeia Bryant, the Success Prep Academy student mentored by Corbin, said Corbin has been like a big sister to her. “The biggest thing I’ve learned is to stay focused. It has changed my life. I’m thinking about majoring in psychology,” said Bryant, also 18, a senior at Northridge High School.
Alabama Graphite Finds Natural Graphene on its Coosa Property, in Alabama, USA
One Page News – March 12
*Alabama Graphite Corp. *(“Alabama Graphite” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:ALP)(OTCQX:ABGPF)(FRANKFURT:1AG) (WKN: A1J35M) (ISIN# CA0102931080) is pleased to announce that it has found naturally occurring flake graphene at its Coosa Property in Alabama, USA. The graphene was obtained using an innovative and cost effective process, by Dr. Nitin Chopra of The University of Alabama under our sponsored research partnership.
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