UA Homecoming Parade Time Change and Homecoming Events
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Oct. 12
The University of Alabama is announcing a time change for UA’s 2009 Homecoming parade. The parade was set to step off at 9 a.m. Saturday, but that’s been changed to 11:30 a.m. Therefore, WVUA’s live Homecoming Parade broadcast will begin at noon. The broadcast will be hosted by WVUA anchor Lynn Brooks, along with special guest host Terry Saban, wife of Alabama Football Coach Nick Saban.
UA prepares for week of homecoming activities
FOX6 (Birmingham) – Oct. 12
UA students expressed their homecoming spirit with paint brushes today. They painted storefronts along the strip…
Rain is not expected to dampen UA homecoming
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 13
Rain is expected in Tuscaloosa County for most of the week, but it hasn’t put much of a damper on the pomp and circumstance surrounding the University of Alabama’s homecoming game Saturday…
In Test of Water on Moon, Craft Hits Bull’s-Eye
New York Times – Oct. 12
…“As far as I can tell from our quick processing, we did not see any plume,” said William C. Keel, a professor of astronomy at the University of Alabama who was operating a telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
UA alumnus shares insight on global economy
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 13
Charles Li… is now the head of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, a prominent position in the Asian and global financial markets. He returned to UA on Monday to speak with journalism, public relations, advertising and business professors and students about his experience and his take on the world economy…Joseph Phelps, chairman of the advertising and public relations department, said a board member of the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations at UA, noticed Li was a UA alumnus in an article. Staff at the center contacted him to see if he could come to Tuscaloosa when he was back in the United States, and when word got around campus, the president’s office also extended an invitation, Phelps said…
Birmingham News – Oct. 13
Opinion: Being green good for UA, environment
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 13
…UA’s grade is an improvement from a C a year ago on a report card on which fewer than half of the colleges that participated in the survey got a B. “It means they are about average, but the fact that they are improving is significant,” said Lea Lupkin, a spokeswoman for the Sustainable Endowments Institute. But university officials indicate they are not satisfied with an average rating. UA has set a goal to reduce its overall energy use by square foot by 2 percent from 2008 to 2010…