UA student who has family in Haiti steps up to help after earthquake
FOX6 (Birmingham) – Jan. 14
…Daphne Colinet is a University of Alabama student. Her mother and father were born in Haiti and flew home to Chicago just one day before the earthquake hit….
UA gets ready for big championship celebration
NBC13 (Birmingham) – Jan. 14
…University of Alabama is gearing up a big celebration this weekend of the schools 13th National Championship…
Crimson White – Jan. 15
MLK Day activities focus on social justice
Tuscaloosa News – Jan. 15
The University of Alabama’s 21st annual celebration of the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will kick off tonight. “Realizing the Dream: Then and Now” is this year’s theme for the annual festivities commemorating the life and legacy of the late civil rights leader. “What the (Realizing the Dream committee) hoped to do was to demonstrate how issues of social justice and fairness and some of the principles that King advocated are issues that we still wrestle with as a society today,” said Samory Pruitt, vice president of UA Community Affairs. This year’s Realizing the Dream concert at UA’s Moody Music Building will bring together music and dance, with excerpts from King’s speeches on war and peace…
Crimson White – Jan. 15
Martin Luther King Jr. Day events
Tuscaloosa News — Jan. 15
…21st annual Realizing the Dream Concert: 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Concert Hall at the Moody Music Building on the University of Alabama campus. Guest artist will be Belinda George-Peoples of Birmingham. Tickets are $15. Call 205-348-7111 or visit the Web site at realizingthedream.org…
Economic forecast: Cautious optimism
Tuscaloosa News – Jan. 15
The University of Alabama helped protect the Tuscaloosa metropolitan area against the worst of the recession, but the downturn continues to affect West Alabama and the rest of the state. Sizable university enrollment growth, on-campus football and other athletic events that drew visitors, and a growing health-care industry helped Tuscaloosa’s metro area, according to UA’s Center for Business and Economic Research. The center reviewed economic data from 2009 and forecast the state’s prospects for 2010 during its annual Economic Outlook Conference in Montgomery on Thursday. The conference also addressed expectations for the U.S. economy in the coming year. In both cases, the experts were cautiously optimistic. “This is a year of recovery,” said Sam Addy, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research. Every metro area in the state has lost jobs since 2008, and Tuscaloosa was no exception, according to data reviewed by the center…
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FOX6 (Birmingham) – Jan. 14
Former CIA officer, now UA professor, discusses new book on Guantanamo
KMOX-AM (St. Louis) – Jan. 14
KWMU (St. Louis) – Jan. 14
UA Professor Stephen Schwab did live interviews on these St. Louis television and radio stations.
The Best Thing About Orphanages
Wall Street Journal – Jan. 15
…During the past decade I have surveyed more than 2,500 alumni from 15 American orphanages…White orphanage alumni had a 39% higher rate of college graduation than white Americans of the same age, and less than 3% had hostile memories of their orphanage experiences. University of Alabama historian David Beito replicated the study with several hundred alumni from another orphanage, reaching much the same conclusions…
UA Alum Appears on “Project Runway”
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Jan. 14
…UA alum, Anthony Williams graduated three years ago from UA’s clothing, textiles and interior design department.
Events highlight issues facing imprisoned women
Tuscaloosa News – Jan. 15
The Women’s Resource Center at the University of Alabama commemorated Women in Prison Awareness Week with a letter-writing campaign to incarcerated women, a prison demonstration on the Quad, a movie and panel discussions.“Our state has seen an incredible increase in the number of incarcerated women in our lifetime,” said Catherine Roden-Jones, coordinator for the Alabama Women’s Resource Network…Several organizations worked on this week’s Women’s Prison Awareness Week. The UA Women’s Resource Center held a letter-writing campaign at the Ferguson Center on campus, in which students could send letters to incarcerated women. And a prison demonstration on the Quad addressed the issue of overcrowding through a scaled-down layout of Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka.
Chamber honors top achievers
Tuscaloosa News – Jan. 15
…The chamber also presented 12 distinguished service awards. Recipients were:…George Hamner of the University of Alabama, who was cited for his efforts and leadership on behalf of the chamber’s technology council and recent WiFi initiative on the Strip…