Students kick off UA’s homecoming week with 10K race, powder puff football game
Tuscaloosa News – Oct 12
The University of Alabama’s annual homecoming celebration got under way Sunday with a 10K run and a powder puff football game. “This is our kickoff every year for homecoming and all the student competitions,” said Mary Cypress Howell, executive director of the Student Government Association Homecoming Committee soon after runners departed on the 10K Roll Tide Run. “We invite everyone in the community to be involved to get them excited and let them know homecoming is coming up.”…
Crimson White – Oct. 12
Partnership between UA, magnet school brings new classes
Tuscaloosa News – Oct 12
…The Exploratories program, which started last week, is a partnership between Tuscaloosa Magnet Elementary and the University of Alabama. UA professors, undergraduate and graduate students, along with alumni, go to Tuscaloosa Magnet Elementary every Tuesday to teach students. The classes taught include robotics, simple machines, renewable energy machines, geology, meteorology, forensics, broadcasting, journalism, graphic design, yoga, dance, art, art history, drama, French, guitar, violin, hand bells, choir, recorder and world drumming…Laura Woolf, director of the UA and magnet school partnership, said instructors and department heads with UA’s College of Arts and Sciences, Creative Campus Initiative and the School of Music coupled with Tuscaloosa Magnet Elementary for this program because they want the school’s students to become “patrons of the arts.” “We’re trying to include as many things that will help them know where they fit into the global community,” Woolf said. “But more importantly, we want to help bring these bright young kids along and hopefully they’ll come to the university to continue their learning.” Woolf said the undergraduate and graduate students who volunteered to teach at the magnet school can earn service learning credits at the university. The alumni and professors who teach are volunteering their free time.
UA scientists’ idea could result in a better bandage
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 11
…Hough and two UA post-doctoral researchers in chemistry, Julia Shamshina and Marcin Smiglak, thus began experiments combining minerals, vitamins and fatty acids that could be added to bandages to help heal burns and slow-healing wounds of diabetics…
Incubator helps bring inventions to the market
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 11
…PDH Technologies, however, hopes to get some help from UA’s Alabama Institute for Manufacturing Excellence, a business/technology incubator designed to help bring innovations and inventions from university researchers to market. “What AIME does is it tries to add value to projects developed at the university,” said Dan Daly, director of the institute…PDH Technologies is being mentored by Daly and Robin Rogers, chairman of UA’s chemistry department and director of UA’s Center for Green Manufacturing. The business incubator helps the business in its early stages until it is ready to go out on its own. UA does not specify how long a company can be in its incubator, although Daly said business incubators around the country usually will assist start-up businesses for three to five years…
UA gets noticed for green efforts
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 12
…This past week, a national survey of higher education institutions awarded UA a B-minus on a green report card. Produced by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, a part of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers, the College Sustainability Report Card graded 332 colleges on their efforts for sustainability, or an institution’s ability to sustain its energy and financial needs without impacting the environment. UA’s B-minus is up from a C a year ago. Fewer than half of the colleges that participated in the survey got a B…
UA students brainstorm for literacy campaign
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 10
University of Alabama students are working to promote literacy statewide by getting the entire state to pick up a book. Students studying public relations at UA recently presented ideas to representatives from Alabama public libraries for a campaign for the Alabama Reads project, which will begin in the spring. The program aims to promote literacy and small-town life in Alabama…“The purpose [of the campaign] is to publicize public libraries and everything that they have to offer to their communities,” said Alysar Alameddin, a public relations student and co-account executive of the campaign…
Survey: Prognosis poor but progress present
Montgomery Advertiser – Oct. 11
Business leaders feel better, but they still don’t feel good, according to a survey by the Center for Business and Economic Research, a part of the University of Alabama…Sam Addy, the economist who leads the center, said his take was that a city more distant from the seat of government generally has a more confident business community. Now, with government spending one of the few stable portions of the economy, being closer to the seat of government might be a good thing.
Black Power scholar to visit UA
Crimson White – Oct. 12
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author and scholar of African American culture and the Black Power movement, will talk about his new book, “Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt,” Tuesday in Gorgas Library Room 205…
Beat Auburn Beat Hunger Kicks Off
Crimson White – Oct. 12
The Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive will kick-off, sponsored by the Community Service Center, on Tuesday from 11 a.m. through 1 p.m. with a chili cook-off in the Ferguson Center Plaza for all who wish to attend.
TV pilot being shot at UA
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 10
Seven students in Telecommunications and Film assistant professor Adam Schwartz’ advanced television production class are working on their first ever television pilot…Newly hired film professor Schwartz first came up with the idea for the course after he was hired to teach at the University…
Retired UA business professor dies at age 76
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 10
…Thomas David Moore, a University of Alabama professor who died Friday at Hospice of West Alabama after a long battle with cancer. He was 76. Moore retired from the university as associate dean of the business college and its graduate school…