UA helps Jacksonville State University
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – March 29
A 13-member team of the University of Alabama’s facilities and grounds department spent the week helping Jacksonville state university clear debris left by last week’s tornado. UA’s College of Engineering has a drone program, which helped examine damage to the buildings and landscape, which helped crews determine which areas to help first and where crews needed to take extra caution.
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UA class works with Matthews Elementary School students
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – March 29
Thursday evening, Matthews Elementary School, its after school program, and Dr. Acosta’s literacy methods class at the University of Alabama hosted their annual Spring Seussapalooza literacy carnival. The Matthews Achieving Together Equals Success Program focuses on helping students with science, math, and reading after school.
Cybersecurity experts warn about ransomware attacks
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Cyber security experts are warning about security risks after a ransomware attack that crippled parts of Atlanta’s government for several days. Experts at the University of Alabama tell us, attacks like those could continue to affect smaller communities that don’t have as much of an IT infrastructure in place.
SGA senate passes act to start scholarship fund for adapted athletics
Crimson White – March 29
The Senate passed both pieces of legislation in their final meeting of the academic year, paving the way for a scholarship fund for Adapted Athletics. Act A-17, an Act to Establish a Scholarship Fund for Adapted Athletics, was passed unanimously in committee with one abstention before the senate passed it. Senator Darby McQueen, a senior majoring in social work, said this bill’s passing was a big step past the hardest stage. “I think that this is a really good step in showing that diversity is great,” McQueen said. “Like I said tonight on the floor, we’re a big sports school, so why not support all of our athletic programs.”
UofA professor discusses brain-robot interaction with Talladega College students (photos)
Anniston Star – March 29
University of Alabama assistant professor of computer science Dr. Chris Crawford spoke to Talladega College Science students Monday during a special presentation titled “Brain-Robot Interaction and Applying Block-Based Programming to Neurofeedback Application Development.”
Can a Class Actually Be Too Small?
Chronicle of Higher Education – March 29
Welcome to Teaching, a newsletter from The Chronicle of Higher Education. This week, Beckie passes along readers’ insights on classes that are too big — or, in one case, too small. Stay tuned for news on open textbooks, new books on teaching, and a rundown of forthcoming conferences … Don Fader, an associate professor of musicology at the University of Alabama, wrote that neither large or small classes are intrinsically good or bad, but rather serve different purposes. Large lectures, he wrote, are good for disseminating information, while “a small seminar is really designed for the thinking and discussion aspect.”
College of Engineering showing play this weekend
Crimson White – March 30
Just because they frequent Rogers Library doesn’t mean they can’t stage a play. This weekend, engineering students are bringing John Cardiani’s play “Almost, Maine” to the stage. The College of Engineering, along with the college’s theater department – College of Engineering Does Amateur Radical Theatre – are presenting the production, which will happen this Saturday, March 31, in the Ferg Theater. Students have been rehearsing the production since January. Jessi Davis is directing this vignettes show, which means there will be short plays comprised into one, whole production. Throughout the entire show, five actors will be playing different roles in each scene. These miniature plays delve into love and loss in a distant, fictitious town named Almost, Maine. The residents of Almost, Maine find themselves falling in and out of love in unforeseen and comical ways. The overall theme of the play is romantic, but it incorporates some elements of realism as well.