MONDAY, AUG. 28 – MONDAY, SEPT. 4
Note: This week’s Preview runs through Monday, Sept. 4 due to the upcoming holiday. UA will be closed Monday, Sept. 4 for Labor Day.
RESEARCH
TO HELP UTILITIES, RESEARCHERS SEEK ANCIENT FLOODS NEAR TENNESSEE RIVER – With funding from energy utilities, a team of researchers at UA is collaborating with peers across the Southeast to understand the frequency and possible size of floods along the Tennessee River that pre-date reliable weather and streamflow records. For more information, contact Adam Jones, communications, at 205-348-4328 or adam.jones@ua.edu
PROFESSOR TO LEAD STUDY OF NATION’S FORESTS – Using satellite imagery and computer modeling, a research team led by UA hopes to understand the future implications of the management of the nation’s forests. For more information, contact Adam Jones, communications, at 205-348-4328 or adam.jones@ua.edu.
BEST BETS
INCORPORATING MORE MATH INTO HIGH SCHOOL COMPUTER SCIENCE – UA will begin providing additional training opportunities for secondary math education majors for preparation to teach computer science. A $300,000 National Science Foundation grant will fund the creation of a course in the spring that will focus on computer science education topics, including equity in computer science education and the newly developed Alabama K-12 CS standards. The grant provides up to 30 $1,500 stipends over the next two years to students who take the new course. The idea is to strengthen the quality of computer science courses in Alabama high schools by incorporating more math principles into course design and instruction. For more information, contact David Miller, communications, at 205-348-0825 or david.c.miller@ua.edu.
JOB SKILLS, FINANCIAL TRAINING AVAILABLE — Registration is open for the fall session of Culverhouse LIFT, or Learning Initiative and Financial Training. A service sponsored by UA’s Culverhouse College of Commerce, LIFT provides one-on-one job skills and financial literacy training for Tuscaloosa-area adults and teens at no cost. Program participants come from different backgrounds and include urban and rural residents, veterans and high school students. Registration and session information is available at this link: www.culverhouse.ua.edu/lift. For more information, contact Richard LeComte, communications, richard.lecomte@ua.edu, 205/348-3782.
ALABAMA HERITAGE MAGAZINE — The Summer 2017 issue of Alabama Heritage magazine, co-published by UA, features expanded articles, a pullout map and a detailed foldout timeline that highlights Alabama becoming a territory. Feature stories outline how the Mississippi-Alabama border was well-debated and became “more or less arbitrary” and a look at Alabama’s first capital, located in St. Stephens. The issue is published in conjunction with the launching of Alabama 200, a three-year-long celebration of the Alabama Bicentennial Commemoration. For more details, contact Richard LeComte, communications, richard.lecomte@ua.edu, 205/348-3782.
LOOKING AHEAD
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO VISIT LAW SCHOOL – Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, will participate in a conversation with Dr. Mark E. Brandon, dean of the UA School of Law, and Judge William Harold Albritton III for the Fall 2017 Albritton Lecture Sept. 12 at UA. The event is scheduled for the law school’s McMillian Lecture Hall, room 287/288 at 2 p.m. Media wishing to cover the event are asked to notify, in advance, Monique Fields, manager of communications, at 205/348-5195, mfields@law.ua.edu; Shane Dorrill, 205/348-8319, shane.dorrill@ua.edu, and to observe the following restrictions: Photography will be allowed ONLY during the first two minutes of the event; arrive early – no one will be admitted after the event begins; limited reserved seating for media will be available on a first come, first-served basis for those who arrive before 1:40 p.m.; no equipment bags will be allowed in the lecture hall. For more information, contact Monique Fields at 205/348-5195.