Ex-UA linebacker Victor Ellis dies
Mobile Register — March 26
Former University of Alabama All-SEC middle linebacker Victor Ellis died Tuesday night. The 2002 graduate was suffering from medullary renal cell carcinoma, a type of cancer that attacks the kidneys. Ellis, who played for the Tide from 1998-2001…After graduation, he served as a regional recruiter in Charlotte, N.C., for UA’s admissions office.
Tuscaloosa News – March 26
WVUA-TV (Tuscaloosa) – March 25
UA elects faculty senate president by voice vote
Tuscaloosa News – March 26
Professor Karen Steckol was elected president of the University of Alabama Faculty Senate Tuesday…Clark Midkiff, professor of mechanical engineering and director of UA’s Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies, was elected vice president…Jeanette Vandermeer, nursing professor, was elected secretary…
HRC hosts off-campus living info sessions
Crimson White –March 26
…Julie Elmore, the assistant director for off-campus and greek housing, said the vast majority of students live off campus…”This week, we are planning on having four information sessions for students planning to live off-campus next year,” Elmore said…The sessions will provide useful information to students whose housing needs are going to be met off campus, Elmore said…
Honors course combines Moral Forum, mentoring
Crimson White – March 26
…the Honors College will be offering Speak Up Tuscaloosa, a new service-learning course. Students who take the course will mentor seventh graders about the art of debate…Organizers for the course said they hope it will impact the community by bringing issues that are important to the community to the forefront of discussion in the classroom and at home…The program is made up of a lecture and lab components. The lecture time is Monday afternoon. During the lab time, UA students will go to Hillcrest Middle School or Davis Emerson Middle School and mentor a pair of students. The semester will end with a debate tournament that pits the two schools against each other…Flachsbart and Jones are the two students who initiated the implementation of the course…
Medfusion makes UA debut
Crimson White – March 26
…”There is a trend in the healthcare system toward using the Internet for more routine patient services,” said David Brown, the SHC’s nursing supervisor. “We actually started working on our own Internet program about a year ago…Brown said students can use Medfusion to make appointments, request prescription refills and fill out forms required for visits to the SHC. “The program is not meant to make immediate appointments, though,” Brown said. “It isn’t like sending an instant message, though. We receive requests at any time of the day or night, but we can’t respond to them except during our normal business hours.”…
Black Belt Lenses Project at UA
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – March 25
…The University of Alabama unveiled the 100 “Black Belt Lenses Project” today. Students from several Sumter County schools were given cameras to document life in the Black Belt…
Students Build Concrete Canoe
NBC 13 (Birmingham) – March 25
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – March 25