UA student serving area youth through YAP
Daily Mountain Eagle – July 25
Editor’s note: The following is the second in a four-part series that will feature University of Alabama students who are interning in Jasper this summer. Katie Tindol is spending her summer helping Walker County youth. The University of Alabama rising junior is interning with Youth Advocate Programs (YAP) in Jasper as part of the New College program at UA. While at YAP, Tindol has completed trauma-informed education research for the nonprofit, which will ultimately help YAP apply for grant funding. YAP is a national nonprofit that assists high-risk youth with behavioral health and developmental disabilities. Those who are in the child welfare and/or juvenile justice systems are also served. YAP has programs for struggling adults as well.
Alaska native spends summer in Jasper
Daily Mountain Eagle – July 24
Editor’s note: The following is the first in a four-part series that will feature University of Alabama students who are interning in Jasper this summer. A University of Alabama student who hails from Alaska has spent his summer as an intern in Jasper. Rising junior Vaughn Gingerich has interned this summer with the City of Jasper and Jasper Main Street through UA’s New College program… The political science and economics major made the over 4,000-mile journey to UA because he wanted an opportunity to travel and see the rest of the United States…Gingerich secured a full-tuition scholarship to UA and decided to make the journey to Alabama. As expected, it has taken him some time to acclimate to the state’s sometimes scorching climate.
Mayer’s Collat among heavy hitters tapped for Alabama Business Hall of Fame
Birmingham Business Journal – July 24
Charles A. Collat Sr., the longtime CEO of Birmingham-based Mayer, is one of six individuals chosen as 2019 inductees to the Alabama Business Hall of Fame. In addition to Collat, other inductees announced by The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Business include: Gary P. Fayard, of Atlanta, Georgia; Joe W. Forehand, of Dallas, Texas; Marillyn A. Hewson, of Bethesda, Maryland; the late Lonnie S. McMillian, of Madison; and F. Michael Reilly, of Tuscaloosa.
Locality app created at The Edge (live interview)
WVUA – July 24
We have the honor of being a part of the first class to go through the Crimson Entrepreneurship Academy with The Edge. Locality is currently in development, with plans to launch on The University of Alabama’s campus in fall 2019. The initial market for locality is college students.
Watch out for these summer bugs
Fox 6 – July 24
According to Dr. John Abbott at The University of Alabama, ticks and mosquitoes are the most problematic because they can spread diseases. You should also avoid some spiders, like black widows and brown recluses. They are the state’s most dangerous spiders.
Art form lets millennials, Gen Z express frustrations and angst, share politics
AJC – July 24
George Hawley, a professor of political science at the University of Alabama, lists three traits that broadly underlie their ideology: “a strong sense of white identity, a belief in the importance of white solidarity, and a sense of white victimization.” His study of their demography estimates that 11 million Americans identify with all three traits, with three demographic groups most likely to agree: the divorced, the unemployed, and those making less than $29,000 per year. Groups whose social and economic vulnerabilities, like retail workers and the uninsured, open them to populist ideology: egalitarian on the left, jingoistic on the right.
Tesla earnings day: Elon Musk is in the driver’s seat steering the company’s path to profits
Daily Heralds – July 24
Peter Harms, a control professor on the University of Alabama, compares Musk to Leonardo da Vinci. Like da Vinci, Harms noted Musk has “enormous ideas”: a hip plug-in automobile, the global’s first reusable orbital rocket, colonizing Mars – oh, and did we mention the Hyperloop? And like the Renaissance Man, Musk every now and then has bother translating his blueprints into truth. Harms attributes Musk’s antics to recognition that he is a performer. “I believe he’s playing a character,’” Harms mentioned. “He’s a showman.”
Centre Daily Times – July 24
Newsllive – July 24
CNBC – July 24
Top Law and Intelligence Experts’ Views on Mueller Hearings
Just Security – July 24
During a marathon of congressional testimony on Wednesday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller fielded questions from members of the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and President Donald Trump’s efforts to thwart the investigation. Joyce White Vance (@JoyceWhiteVance), Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at The University of Alabama and MSNBC commentator. She served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama: Something that gets lost in the partisan argument over the president is that Russia undeniably attacked our elections and will undoubtedly do it again. Mueller emphasized this every chance he got, although there was little questioning about it.
Hartselle’s Buffington recognized for research at the University of Alabama
Decatur Daily – July 24
Molly Buffington of Hartselle was recognized by The University of Alabama’s Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Program.
Bama Bug Fest
Great Day Tuscaloosa – July 23
As a son of an exterminator. My family had Tuscaloosa Exterminator Service. I love bugs. They helped me get a car, got me great clothes, they got me all this stuff because of that good ol’ roach. …and John Friel with the Alabama Museum of Natural History to talk about Bug Fest.
CBS-42 (Birmingham) – July 23
School news
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette – July 24
The University of Alabama awarded some 5,716 degrees during its spring commencement May 3-5. Among the recipients are: Sarah Elizabeth Bird of Fort Smith, bachelor of arts; Julianna M. Boskus of Elkins, bachelor of science; Casey R. Fogleman of Bella Vista, bachelor of arts; Lauren Ashley Harrell of Lowell bachelor of science; Haley Ann Hogue of Bentonville, bachelor of arts; Carson Anthony McCullough of Rogers, bachelor of science in mechanical engineering; Elliott Elizabeth Miller Graves of Bentonville, master of business administration; Matthew Tyler Shultz of Fort Smith, bachelor of science in mechanical engineering; Carter Addison Smith of Bella Vista, bachelor of science in commerce & business administration; Andrew Lawrence Todd of Fort Smith, master of business administration, juris doctor.
Monroe County.net (Forsythe, Georgia) – July 24
Kendall County Now (Illinois) – July 24
Chagrin Valley Today (Ohio) – July 24 (Subscription only)
Courier Tribune (Smithville, Missouri) – July 24