Grant to help nurses who want to be teachers
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – July 6
Nurses who have a goal to teach may have more money available to attend UA’s College of Nursing. The Capstone College of Nursing is offering the Nurse-Faculty Loan Program. It’s a grant from the U.S. Health Resources Administration. It gives up to $263,000 to nurses who are looking to teach. It will support 14 students who enrolled last year, and will also add new borrowers. Dr. Alice March says, “For us here at the College of Nursing, this means that we are able to recruit the best and the brightest, people who are already nurses, already have a master’s degree, most of them are already teaching and they just want that Ed. D. to kind of make them the best educator possible.” If you are interested or know someone who is, those loans will be available this Fall.
UA researchers say sitting around a fire lowers blood pressure
NECN (Boston, Mass.) (This is from a syndicated show called “Intelligence for your Life”) – July 6
Here’s a great way to lower blood pressure. Get out in the woods or hit the beach and sit around a fire. A study from The University of Alabama found that people who stared at a flickering fire for five minutes and listened to the snap, crackle and pop of the wood for 15 minutes saw their blood pressure drop two full points. They say the light spectrum from the fire and the comfort of the steady crackling wood puts us in a trance-like state, which helps people feel calmer and lowers blood pressure.
A history of objections to civil laws
Albany Times Union (N.Y.) – July 6
The “sincere religious beliefs” objections to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states are getting some traction, particularly in Texas, Alabama and Louisiana. By a not-so-amazing coincidence, these are among the 11 states where there is an unfortunate history of sincere religious objections to previous laws of the land. The 13th Amendment for one, the one that abolished slavery. It seems impossible to think now, but throughout the South, and from some pulpits in the North, before and after the Civil War, churches vigorously defended slavery as rooted in the Bible. In “God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War,” the historian George C. Rable of the University of Alabama writes: “Preachers talked about a spiritual and cultural war between true Christianity and Yankee infidelity. Indeed, according to one Georgia Baptist editor, it was northern ‘opposition to plain Biblical teachings, which has dissolved our once glorious Union.’
The Daily Record (Wooster, Ohio) – July 6
Check out the University of Alabama’s campus through the eyes of a drone
YellowHammer News – July 6
Alumni and state residents alike often take the University of Alabama’s gorgeous, historical campus for granted, but using new drone camera technology, even lifelong visitors of the Capstone cannot help but marvel at the school’s beauty. UA published the short video to showcase some of the most recognizable spots on campus. With the drone, Alabama takes you above the trees and streets to provide a clear view of campus we don’t often don’t see. Drones have become increasingly popular and have been used to capture other Alabama events such as the Snowpocalypse 2015 and tornado damage from 2014.
Deborah Johnson Is the First African American to Win the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education – July 6
Deborah Johnson was selected to receive the 2015 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. The prize is administered by the University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal. Johnson is the first woman and the first African American to win the prize. Johnson will be recognized September 3 at a ceremony held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. She is being honored for her book The Secret of Magic (G.P Putnam & Sons, 2014). The novel is the story about a young woman attorney who works for Thurgood Marshall in 1946. She is asked to investigate the murder of a young Black war hero in Mississippi. Johnson is a native of Missouri but grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. She currently resides in Columbus, Mississippi.
Leading international business professor to talk on strategy at Unisa SBL
Automotive Business Review – July 6
Best-selling author and strategist Professor A.J ‘Lonnie’ Strickland will deliver an insightful seminar on strategy at the Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL) on Tuesday, 12 May from 8h30 to 17h00. Entitled ‘The last 40 years of strategy and the next 40’, the seminar will be followed by a networking function. Professor Strickland is well known to strategy students and graduates as the co-author of the best-selling strategy textbook worldwide, Crafting and Executing Strategy, now in its 20th edition and used in more than 900 universities including the SBL in its Master of Business Leadership (MBL) programme. Professor Strickland currently holds the rank of John R. Miller Professor of Strategic Management in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Alabama. He has been teaching there for 46 years and has seen over 20,000 students go through his classroom. He has been awarded various accolades for his outstanding work and is also a member of various honour leadership societies.