University of Alabama reaches record 28,807 students
NBC 13, Birmingham – Sept. 10
With a record 28,807 students enrolled this fall, The University of Alabama continues to be the state’s largest university. Enrollment increased by 1,755 students, or 6.5 percent, over fall 2008, and this year’s freshman class once again increased in quality as well as size.
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348-RIDE Express kicks off
Crimson White – Sept. 11 (Print version only)
The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new 348-RIDE Express program took place Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in front of Gorgas Library…The 348-RIDE Express began Thursday at 9 p.m. The route runs from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays…
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UA hosts 9/11 tribute
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 11
After the bell rang, the somber sound of “Taps” filled the air. Meanwhile, a group of nearly 200 people stood motionless, simply remembering those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, as well as those who have died while defending the United States. And along the straight sidewalk path stretching from Denny Chimes to the steps of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library on the University of Alabama Quad, 150 American flags stood, heavy with raindrops. However, by the time the Honoring American Heroes memorial service got under way Thursday, rain clouds had parted leaving a humid air around those gathered to honor police, firefighters and military troops.
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‘Ask Al’ to make campus navigation easier
Crimson White – Sept. 11
The University has started a new online navigation service for UA students and visitors. “Ask Al” is a navigation tool on myBama under the campus life tab. Ask Al, created by the Division of Student Affairs last spring, was launched within the first week of classes as a way for the University to have a more inviting approach to students and guest.
“It is designed to help make the University more user-friendly and easier to navigate,” said Housing and Residential Communities Spokeswoman Alicia Browne, in an email.
Reusable to-go trays to be available at Burke
Crimson White – Sept. 11
The SGA is taking more steps toward sustainability on campus this semester. At the SGA Senate meeting Thursday, a resolution was passed promoting the Bama Dining pilot program utilizing reusable, to-go trays as an alternative to the common, Styrofoam to-go trays. Peyton Falkenburg, a sophomore majoring in finance and an author of the resolution, said sustainability is an important initiative to SGA.
Game days increase revenue for local businesses
Crimson White – Sept. 11
With the first home gameday on Saturday, businesses in Tuscaloosa are preparing for the busiest part of the year — football season. This weekend, thousands will enter the city for Alabama’s first home game, and along with these people come the millions of dollars they put into the economy to aid local businesses.
Computer Could Call Football Plays
Inside Science News Service – Sept. 10
Football coaches are famous for their dedication to winning. Video studies of upcoming opponents begin so early in the morning that most people are still dreaming about their first cup of coffee; strategy sessions run past the time insomniacs fall asleep. But a new computer model may be able to take the play calling load off of the coach and, through fast, real-time analysis of all the offensive and defensive possibilities, dictate the best play to call in any game situation. The program takes the human element out of play calling and instead uses mathematical and statistical techniques. Operations researcher Sharif Melouk and applied statistician Marcus Perry, both from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, collaborated with a graduate student to apply techniques often used to allocate resources in contexts like business and antiterrorist protection efforts to football play calling. “We’re at Alabama, we’re pretty serious about football here,” said Melouk.
Wayman Named National Hollings Scholar
Jackson County (Indiana) Banner – Sept. 10
The University of Alabama has announced that Emily Wayman has received the highly competitive National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship. She is a chemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences at Alabama, and was among some 100 students nationwide awarded the scholarship this year. Fifteen UA students have been named Hollings Scholars since the inception of the scholarship in 2005.
The maverick’s business guide: Guns, Machiavellian ethics and master dealmaking skills: What every entrepreneur needs.
CNN Money – Sept. 9
Review of “Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power” by (UA professor) David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito; University of Illinois Press, 336 pages, $35. Think you had it tough starting a business? Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard had it tougher. On top of the usual stresses, he had to worry about getting killed. Howard was a physician, banker, insurer and farmer who launched several businesses in the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, where African Americans had few rights and “uppity” blacks could be murdered with near impunity. He handled this particular problem by packing a firearm and hiring bodyguards. He could afford it. Howard rose from poverty to become one of the richest blacks in Mississippi. He also joined the struggle for civil rights, funding or mentoring such pioneers as Medgar Evers and Jesse Jackson.