Research shows cocaine trafficking adapts to law enforcement efforts
Eureka Alert – April 2
The success of illegal drug trafficking through wider and wider swaths of Central America is a consequence of law enforcement activity to curtail it, according to new research led by The University of Alabama. A model developed by Dr. Nicholas Magliocca from UA and others from around the country found the cat-and-mouse game of cocaine smuggling and government interdiction strategies results in a larger geographic area for trafficking with little success in stopping the drug from reaching the United States.
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The Benefit of Executive MBA Programs
Business Alabama – April 1
For many professionals, the corporate ladder can become a bit shaky the longer they climb it. The solid foundation of knowledge that kept things stable at first usually does not extend all the way to the top. Somewhere along the way, most people need some extra support in order to continue their ascent. . . . “It’s people who are looking to further their business knowledge and skills,” says Donna Blackburn, director of the Executive MBA Program at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Business. “Maybe they’re taking on more responsibility as an employee, or they’re growing their business as an employer. Or perhaps they want to start their own business. We have people who are transitioning from active military service into industry. We get all different kinds of people who come into this program for all different kinds of reasons.”
Astonishment, skepticism greet fossils claimed to record dinosaur-killing asteroid impact
F3News – April 1
A fossil site in North Dakota records a stunningly detailed picture of the devastation minutes after an asteroid slammed into Earth about 66 million years ago, a group of paleontologists argue in a paper due out this week. Geologists have theorized that the impact, near what is now the town of Chicxulub on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, played a role in the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, when all the dinosaurs (except birds) and much other life on Earth vanished. . . . “I hope this is all legit—I’m just not 100% convinced yet,” says Thomas Tobin, a geologist at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Tobin says the PNAS paper is densely packed with detail from paleontology, sedimentology, geochemistry, and more. “No one is an expert on all of those subjects,” he says, so it’s going to take a few months for the research community to digest the findings and evaluate whether they support such extraordinary conclusions.
Vaaju.com – April 1
Kottke.com – April 1
Guam’s Mabini chosen for research fellowship
Marianas Variety – Apri l1
Sam Mabini, Ph.D., former director of the Guam Department of Labor, has been selected to participate in the Career and Technical Education Research Program at North Carolina State University. Mabini, a former senator, is among 16 research fellows from institutions across the nation who were selected. She is being sponsored by Frankie Laanan at the University of Alabama.
Bethalto student wins award for research on painter
Advantage (Godfrey, Illinois) – April 1
Rising senior Sarah Fields won the University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences’ 2019 Asian Studies Essay Award for her research on the Italian Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione, who served as a court painter during the Qing dynasty in China in the 18th century. Fields researched and wrote the paper, “Lang Shining: The Italian Jesuit and Chinese Court Painter,” under the guidance of Dr. Doris Sung in Survey of Asian Art.