LEND A HAND: Program provides free job skill development classes
Tuscaloosa News – Jan. 27
The Culverhouse Learning Initiative and Financial Training program is seeking student volunteers and community participants for its spring series of job and professional skill development programs. More information and registration guides are available online at www.##htmlLink_1## … Created in 2014, Culverhouse LIFT was created as a joint initiative between the University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce’s dean’s office and the School of Accountancy. It aims to improve job skills in the adult, teen and veteran populations in West Alabama through the use of UA resources and student and faculty talent.
Green Chemistry
WGCU (Florida) – Jan. 27
We sit down with Dr. Robin D. Rogers, he’s Research Professor at University of Alabama, adjunct professor at McGill University in Montreal, and President, Owner and Founder of 525 Solutions.
SAFE center seeks executive director
Tuscaloosa News – Jan. 27
The board of directors of a new center that will treat sexual assault victims in Tuscaloosa and West Alabama has launched the search for its first executive director. The Tuscaloosa SAFE Center board began advertising the position this week … Cramer, a longtime community volunteer and retired University of Alabama administrator, was tapped to lead efforts to establish the center. The SAFE program will provide comprehensive care for sexual assault victims in West Alabama. The board is in the process of selecting a site for the center, which is expected to be located near DCH Regional Medical Center and the UA campus. Services will include medical care, follow-up counseling, specialized therapy and information about reporting options.
Cynthia Tucker: Congress continues to ignore gun violence
Oroville Mercury Register (California) – Jan. 27
This, apparently, is “normal” in the United States: Earlier this week, in the small town of Benton, Kentucky, a high school sophomore walked onto his campus and started shooting, wounding several schoolmates and killing two — Bailey Nicole Holt, who died at the scene, and Preston Ryan Cope, who died after he was transported to a hospital … etween 1966 and 2012, there were 90 mass shootings in the United States, according to University of Alabama professor Adam Lankford, who has published a study about shootings that kill four or more victims.
America’s Mass Shooting Epidemic
WDIV-NBC (Detroit, Michigan) – Jan. 28
On average, there’s a mass shooting almost every day here in the U.S. The statistics prompted folk at the University of Alabama to take an in depth look at the epidemic. 2017 was the deadliest year ever in modern history for mass shootings in America. 345 mass shootings almost one a day. To look at the horrific problem we sat down with University of Alabama professor Adam Lankford.
WHY COMMUNICATORS SHOULD EXPECT A YEAR OF DISRUPTION IN 2018
ARFI – Jan. 29
The communications profession will evolve in ways we cannot imagine today. In this shifting environment, communicators need to be prepared for absolutely anything. Even so, our firm is seeing some patterns emerging in the profession and in the marketplace as we look ahead this year: The emphasis on intangible skills will grow. Our firm has conducted a number of studies in this area in collaboration with Dr. Bruce Berger at The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations at the University of Alabama. What we’ve found applies at the individual level and at the level of the organization.
Student Association-led coalition to launch partnership with Crisis Text Line
Daily Orange (Syracuse, New York) – Jan. 28
Syracuse University’s Student Association is leading a coalition that’s in the process of finalizing a partnership with Crisis Text Line, a free service that provides help to people in need of emotional support … Wolf said the University of Alabama had also launched a student-led partnership, adding that the school’s counseling center holds access to the data. The center is free to share data with the university’s student government, which is leading the marketing efforts.
Tuscaloosa 9-year-old making Broadway stage debut
Tuscaloosa News – Jan. 28
Kids sing and dance as easily and carelessly as breathing, eating and immediately seeking dirt and grime while wearing nice church clothes … Nine-year-old Madalen Yarbrough Mills has left Tuscaloosa behind — for now — to open on Broadway. Starting Tuesday, she steps in as Sophie in the hit comedy “School of Rock — The Musical” based on the 2003 Jack Black movie — about a phony substitute teacher, a failed musician, who crafts his fifth-graders into a rocking, self-empowering band — with additional music by Andrew Lloyd Webber … It’s not that much of a leap for the preternaturally confident Madalen. She’d been supported as she moved through lessons and shows, as many parents do, said her mom, (UA professor) Jamie Mills.
Wilson Times (North Carolina) – Jan. 28
Award-winning author to present at Visiting Writers Series
Crimson White – Jan. 28
As part of The University of Alabama’s Visiting Writers Series, author Sarah Manguso will take the mic for an evening of novel inspiration. From autobiographies, investigations of friendship and suicide, a personal memoir, an assembly of short stories and an assortment of poems, Manguso has offered up a taste of just about everything in her work. She has appeared in multiple editions of the Best American Poetry series, and is recognized on an international level.
UM Southern Studies Sets Spring Brown Bag Lectures
Hot Toddy.com – Jan. 27
On March 28, Ellen Griffith Spears presents “Writing Histories of Environmentalism in the U.S. South.” Building on histories of environmental activism in the region, Spears’s talk explores the challenges facing American environmentalism in 2017. Spears is an associate professor in the interdisciplinary New College and the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama. Her research is broadly interdisciplinary, combining environmental and civil rights history with studies of science, technology and public health. Her book, “Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town,” published in 2014 by the University of North Carolina Press, explores key questions faced by communities that seek to address systemic class and race inequalities and to tackle toxic pollution.
Students host 24-hour theatre competition
Crimson White – Jan. 29
Stakes were high for student actors and writers this weekend as teams of five rushed to create 10-minute-long performances with a 24-hour timer ticking in the back of their minds. On Saturday, Crimson Stage hosted Between the Lines, the first 24-hour performance festival our university has seen. This high-stress, low-stakes environment served as a learning experience for all involved. “It’s an opportunity to learn and grow and push yourself,” said Zach Stotlz, a third-year acting graduate student who functioned as one of the festival’s hosts and captains. “We learn the most under crisis, and this is the most fun crisis you have available. It’s a controlled crisis. It’s a storm in a bottle.” Each team was randomly assigned an opening line, closing line and prop at 5 p.m. on Jan. 26. They performed their pieces at 6 p.m. the following evening in the Allen Bales Theatre in front of a live audience and a panel of three judges.