Having trouble finding a primary care doc? Here’s what med schools are doing about it.
Washington Post – Oct. 28
More than three decades after she was born at Hale County Hospital in Greensboro, Ala., Dana Todd spends one night a week at the 20-bed facility in the state’s rural Black Belt. Todd, the only doctor on duty, tends to the typical array of maladies that arrive in the emergency room or need to be monitored on the wards. She spends the rest of her week in a pair of community clinics, where she helps manage her largely poor, older patients’ diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. For an aspiring medical specialist, this might sound like a circle of hell, a few years of professional exile in exchange for help with med school loans … ““The data show that one of the characteristics of successful health systems … is a workforce that is based on more primary care physicians,” said Richard Streiffer, dean of the College of Community Health Sciences at the University of Alabama. “That’s why primary care matters.”
UA student’s composition to be preformed at Carnegie Hall
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Oct. 28
A University of Alabama music student will get a chance to have his music heard in the Big Apple. Tyler Grant has been selected to be showcased at Carnegie Hall. Grant is a sophomore majoring in music education. He composed a three minute piece called Panoramic Landscape. Grant has written several award-winning works for concert bands, marching bands and chamber groups.
Blackburn Institute visits Pike Road
WNCF & WAKA (Montgomery) – Oct. 28
Preparing today’s college students to become tomorrow’s leaders. That is the mission of a program at The University of Alabama. Today, a group of those students made a stop in central Alabama. For the past 20 years, the Blackburn Institute at The University of Alabama has had a vision to develop a community of ethical leaders who collaboratively accomplish good and noble ends. The students came to Pike Road. The Blackburn students are currently on a bus tour of Alabama to learn about the different parts of the state. They stopped at Pike Road because of the town’s rapid growth and modern take on planning a town and a community.
New Approach to Produce Chemical Substances from Renewable Resources
Process Worldwide – Oct. 28
Maybe the chemistry of tomorrow is made of wood: Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany and at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in the USA recently managed to synthesize two complex chemical substances from wood-based starting materials. The process can be as cost-effective as the conventional petroleum product-based process and is less damaging to the environment. Wood contains a variety of potential starting materials that, because of their chemical structure, are better suited than petroleum products for many applications. It is often necessary to subject the latter to extensive transformation processes before they acquire comparable functionality.
UA has UA Alert System
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – Oct. 28
As for other major colleges in central Alabama, UAB uses the B-Alert Notifications system. In case of severe weather or crime incidents, students are immediately alerted by email and text messaging. The University of Alabama has a similar system called UA Alerts. Students also get telephone calls. Both services are free.
Empowering Pumps Partners with University of Alabama MSM Program
Empowering Pumps – Oct. 28
The Master of Science in Marketing Program at the University of Alabama announces a year-long partnership with Empowering Pumps for the 2015-2016 academic year. As the resource leader in the pump and valve industry, Empowering Pumps provides means to engineers, technicians, and users within the industry through it’s digital media platforms. Pump professionals look to the organization to advertise themselves through web promotion on empoweringpumps.com, connect with other industry professionals, and increase personal sales. The partnership provides MSM students the opportunity to gain hands on experience by providing blog and social media content and strategy, and providing their knowledge to grow Empowering Pump’s reach and digital engagement. “It’s is a privilege to work with these amazing students. They inspire me in so many ways, and it’s great to be surrounded by the next generation of leaders. I believe this is a mutually beneficial relationship where the students get real world experience and we have a group of excitable innovative minds on our content creation team,” said Charli K. Matthews, Empowering Pumps Founder and President.
Two prominent Bham leaders named to non-profit board
Birmingham Business Journal – Oct. 28
MDC – a nonprofit that publishes the State of the South report – has added five new members to its board, with two coming from Birmingham. Stephen Black and Kate Nielson, both of Birmingham, were named to the board, along with Cathy P. Hill, of Savannah, Ga., and Wendy D. Puriefoy and Juan Sepúlveda – both of Washington D.C. … Black founded and serves as director of the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility at the University of Alabama. “Meeting with the MDC staff and learning about their past and present successes, it becomes very clear why they are uniquely positioned to tackle the challenge,” Black said. “It is an honor to serve on the board of such an exemplary organization.”
Flowers to hold book signing
Altmore News – Oct. 28
Few states have as fascinating a political history as Alabama, especially in the post-World War II era. Moving onto and off the state’s electoral stage during this time period of remarkable transformation have been some of the most interesting figures in 20-century American government and politics. Now, the backstage intrigue of Alabama politics receives a lively treatment in “Of Goats and Governors,” the new memoir by former Alabama Representative Steve Flowers. Flowers will be in Atmore Tuesday, November 3, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., First National Bank and Trust Main Branch. Flowers is Alabama’s most watched and read political columnist and commentator. His column on Alabama politics appears weekly in 66 Alabama newspapers. In addition to his famous column, he serves as the political analyst for the University of Alabama radio and television network. His weekly radio commentary for the University is listened to statewide on Alabama Public Radio. He is also the political analyst for WAKA / the Alabama news network in Montgomery.