More Than Words: These Poets Aren’t Afraid to Mix It Up With Music, Visual Arts to Tell Black Stories
The Root – April 25
This week, for National Poetry Month, we’re featuring 37 up-and-coming black poets—including one today who is much more well-known but in a different field—who we expect do amazing work over the next decade … L. Lamar Wilson’s poetry collection Sacrilegion (Carolina Wren Press) was a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award … He teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama and in the low-residency MFA program at Mississippi University for Women.
Democracy Takes Practice
Capital Research Center – April 25
It’s clear that one problem with our country is a declining amount of social capital. Americans don’t belong to as many clubs or civic organizations as they used to and are increasingly spending time staring at their smartphones rather than talking with other people … But clubs declined in the 20th century for several reasons. One, as University of Alabama historian David T. Beito noted in From Mutual Aid To The Welfare State(1992), was that fraternal orders had many of their functions superseded by the post-1933 welfare state.
RISE holds golf tournament
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 25
The rain may have dampened the golf course but it couldn’t dampen the spirits of this event and all of the good it does for special people with special needs. The RISE Center at the University of Alabama is heading into the 20th year of their tournament of champions at north river golf course. The goal of the tournament is to raise money for their education programs. RISE Center director Andi Gillen spoke to me about how the money raised goes back into their program.
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – April 25
University of Ala. receives $8M DOT grant to fund traffic control technologies
Equipment World – April 25
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) recently awarded more than $8 million to the University of Alabama’s (UA) Alabama Transportation Institute (ATI) to fund the use of modernized technology to improve traffic control systems in west-central Alabama through the Advanced Connected Transportation Infrastructure and Operations Network (ACTION) project, Yellowhammer News reports.
Mercer University latest to issue mobile credentials
CR80 News – April 25
Mercer University is the latest campus to issue Mobile Credentials from Transact, and and the first to partner with access control provider Allegion on the initiative … Mercer is among the first institutions to launch mobile credentials in Apple Wallet, joining the University of Alabama, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Temple University and the University of Oklahoma. Unique to the program at Mercer, however, is the university’s long-running partnership with Allegion.
School news
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette – April 25
Nearly 500 students at the University of Alabama highlighted their research and creative projects during the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference on March 27.
Complications ahead in capital murder trial
Decatur Daily – April 26
The alleged confession by a Decatur police officer that he stole evidence in an unrelated case could create enormous difficulties for the prosecution in an upcoming capital murder case and possibly jeopardize past convictions, according to a law professor. “It’s a huge deal,” said Jenny Carroll, a professor of criminal law at the University of Alabama School of Law.
Joyce Vance comments on President Trump’s about stonewalling subpoenas from Democrats (Live Interview)
MSNBC Live with Katy Tura – April 25
Joining me now, the Washington Post White House reporter and MSNBC senior political analyst Ashley Parker and former U.S. attorney and MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance. She’s currently a professor at the University of Alabama School of Law. Joyce, let’s start by looking at this from the legal point of view. What recourse do democrats even have here?
Coca Cola : Renews First Generation Program With $1 Million Grant
Market Screener – April 25
The University of Alabama issued the following news: The Coca-Cola Foundation is continuing its support for the Coca-Cola First Generation Scholars program at The University of Alabama with a new four-year grant award of $1 million.
Weekend brings two music festivals to Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa News – April 26
Fair weather ushers in music festivals. Coachella recently closed its two weekend sets, while Gulf Shores’ Hangout Music Festival, Tennessee’s Bonnaroo and Atlanta’s Shaky Knees are opening within the next several weeks … “We wanted to help support a local nonprofit organization where we knew the money would go directly to a need,” said Lanier Sanders, with Ross Tortorigi, a fellow University of Alabama student, co-creators of River Fest.
Science: Food with negative calorie, apparently, does not exist
RYB (Russia) – April 26
This means that the body spends more calories on its assimilation than it receives from it … “Regardless of the amount of calories in food, you can always get something out of it,” says Stephen Secor from The University of Alabama. “Let it not be much, but the food itself always brings energy.”