Former Oconee resident works on septic system improvements in Alabama
Athens Banner-Herald – May 8
Joe Booth, a former resident of Athens and Watkinsville, is participating in a project at the University of Alabama to develop new technology for septic systems to help homeowners in an area of Alabama known as the Black Belt. That area is notorious for septic problems due to the hard dark-colored clay. Booth had lived in the Watkinsville area until his family moved to Dacula, where he graduated high school in 1996.
EBSCO Information Services Announces Four Winners for the Second Round of the EBSCO FOLIO Innovation Challenge
Seattle Post-Intelligencer – May 8
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is providing grants to four academic libraries as part of the EBSCO FOLIO Innovation Challenge. The grant program is awarding up to $100,000 in grants to libraries to develop innovative technology solutions that address the challenges academic libraries face. The second round’s winning proposals came from the University of Alabama, the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, the Johns Hopkins University and Lehigh University. The University of Alabama has plans to create data collection, reporting and analysis tools designed to support the core reporting module for FOLIO. Leveraging the FOLIO platform’s data warehouse along with data science, machine learning and external data sources, the development team at the University of Alabama Libraries wants to help build upon the successes they have had in building custom reporting solutions to share with the greater FOLIO community.
Retired educator honored with Rotary Club award
Tuscaloosa News – May 8
Retired educator Jeanne Burkhalter has received the Rotary Rose from the Rotary Club of Tuscaloosa. The annual award is designed to recognize community service that might otherwise go unnoticed. Burkhalter, the founding principal at the Tuscaloosa Magnet School, had a career in education that lasted 33 years, but she continues to have an impact on the community even in retirement. Last year, she founded Book Buddies, a program she calls “my most meaningful work.” Through Book Buddies, Burkhalter develops individual curriculum plans for kindergarten, first- and second-grade students who are struggling with reading. In addition to phonics exercises, the curriculum includes art, games and writing. Book Buddies started in August 2017 as a pilot program at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. The program also involves a partnership with the University of Alabama Honors College.
What John Stuart Mill wrote in the margins of the books he read reveals a lot about his mind
DailyHunt – May 8
Collectively known as marginalia, these unfiltered records of Mill’s original reactions to his books are the subject of an international collaboration between Somerville College and the University of Alabama. The digital component of this effort, Mill Marginalia Online, aspires to digitise all handwritten marginalia in Mill’s library and, in doing so, to reconstruct the sometimes messy process of reading, the initial gut-level reactions, of one of the leading minds of Victorian England.
87-year-old woman graduates from the University of Alabama
UpNorthLive.com – May 7
A University of Alabama graduate is living proof that you’re never too old to reach your goals. Patricia Cassity, 87, graduated from Alabama Friday night. It’s been decades in the making; she started at Alabama back in 1947.
87-year-old graduates from The University of Alabama
May 7
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Ha Ha Clinton-Dix graduates from The University of Alabama
WISN-ABC (Milwaukee, WI) – May 7
Packers’ safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix with a big play off the field this weekend. He graduated from the UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA. He tweeted out some photos congratulating fellow students. He also stated “after leaving school early chasing a check, I realized what paper was most important and that was my degree”
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University of Alabama’s Chloe West: People with POTS are not alone
Alabama News Center – May 7
People have a reasonable expectation when visiting a physician: a diagnosis. Then, there’s a prognosis and, hopefully, a plan for recovery.Chloe West changed her career dreams and postgraduate plans after being diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Two years passed before University of Alabama student Chloe West learned why she’d been experiencing chronic fatigue and foggy brain: dysautonomia, a condition in which the nervous system doesn’t function properly. West was later diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a disease that features dysautonomia and can cause rapid fluctuations of heart rate.
Markers reckon with New Orleans’ role in slave trade
Associated Press – May 7
As New Orleans celebrates its 300th birthday, efforts are underway to take a harder look at one aspect of The Big Easy’s history: its role as the largest slave market in the Deep South. . . . An estimated 135,000 people were brought and sold in New Orleans between 1804 and 1862, University of Alabama professor Joshua Rothman said.
U.S. News and World Report – May 7
14 Strange Things That Are in the Weirdest Museums of Small Town America
Fodor’s Travel – May 7
At 1:00 p.m. on November 30, 1954, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Hodges was minding her own business dozing on the couch of her Sylacauga, Alabama home when suddenly an 8.5-pound meteorite crashed through the roof, bounced around the living room, and hit her squarely on the upper thigh and hip. Hodges escaped with just a bruise (though quite a nasty bruise it was) in the only verified instance in history when an object falling from space has hit and injured a human being. The guilty meteorite is housed at the Alabama Museum of Natural History on the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa.
LEND A HAND: Event challenges Alabamians to get active
Tuscaloosa News – May 6
Alabamians are encouraged to get outside and walk, run, hike, bike, swim, paddle, ride or roll with family and friends at the state’s parks, nature preserves and rivers during the 100 Alabama Miles Challenge. A new statewide public program presented by the University of Alabama Center for Economic Development and other partnering organizations, the challenge officially starts Saturday with kick-off events planned around the state. The largest event will take place at Railroad Park in Birmingham at 9 a.m. Saturday and will feature celebrity spokesman Noah Galloway, a veteran of the United States Army, extreme race competitor and motivational speaker who was recently a contestant on “Dancing with the Stars.” Galloway will lead attendees on a 1-mile walk around Railroad Park as a symbolic “first mile” of the challenge for 2018.