UA wheelchair team has international appeal
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 11
The University of Alabama women’s wheelchair basketball team is still No. 1. After winning the national championship in 2009, the UA women, with a roster that includes six international players, are undefeated against women’s teams going into this weekend’s Bama Fever tournament. While the team has featured international players in years past, this year marks the most international players yet. All six international players are veterans with years of experience with their respective national and world teams. “We bring in good people and good players. When we’re drawing from all over the world, we’re getting the best of the best,” said Brent Hardin, UA Director of Disability Sports…
Academics a top priority for Price
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 11
University of Alabama senior gymnast Kassi Price starts her morning the same way every day. That repetition and attention to detail is what has allowed the Plantation, Fla., native to maintain a 4.0 grade point average throughout her college career. When Alabama public address announcer Tony Giles reveals that fact to a packed Coleman Coliseum at home meets, Price takes just as much pride in that as she does in her athletic erformance, which has made her a two-time All-American. “That’s something that I’ve always wanted. I want to graduate with a 4.0,” Price said. “That’s always been one of my goals. “When I came on my recruiting trip and saw all of those people under the Academic All-American (board) in Bryant Hall, I told my parents, ‘I want to be on there one day.’ I didn’t know how I would get it, but luckily I’ve been able to get (Academic All-American honors) twice. That’s probably one of my biggest accomplishments, because it really shows how much work I’ve put into my studies.” Price is on track to finish her degree in August or December, depending on whether she decides to do an internship… As a junior, she maintained the highest scholastic average within the UA marketing department.
UA’s LITE trains tutors
Crimson white – Feb. 11
The Literacy is the Edge, or LITE, campaign is in full swing this semester, training more than 200 students in tutoring children and adults around West Alabama to read. Last semester, LITE recruited more than 700 volunteers made up of seniors, teaching assistants, graduate students, law students, nursing students and high school students. “We had all types of ethnicities, backgrounds and age groups, so that’s really been a positive thing,” said Louise Crow, president of LITE…Berger said the students have put an incredible amount of effort into the program. “I can’t thank the UA students enough for their incredible response to this problem,” Berger said. “We have literally been overwhelmed by the response. They will help make a small difference in someone else’s life, and what’s finer than that?”
UA Holds Black History Month Events
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Feb. 10
There are tons of black history month events going on in and around Tuscaloosa. Catch the brown bag lecture Wednesday afternoon in manly hall on the University of Alabama campus, hear some “real” talk that night in the Ferguson center. Watch “four little girls”, the story of the Birmingham church bombing, Thursday night in ten hoor hall.
Annual bioethics symposium to address improvements in minority health care
Tuskegee News – Feb. 11
…Dr. Pamela Payne Foster, whose specialty field is preventive medicine/public health, will give a presentation entitled, “From Rhetoric to Reform: How Social Justice Should Shape the Current Debate and Health Policy.” Foster is currently Deputy Director of the Rural Health Institute at the University of Alabama, School of Medicine in Tuscaloosa…
Date auction supports scholarships
Crimson White – Feb. 11
…The Student Government Association and the UA chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers will host a date auction at 7 p.m. at The Zone in Bryant-Denny Stadium. Doors open at 6 p.m., with the auction starting at 7 p.m. NSBE has been hosting the auction for several years as a fundraiser, and last year the SGA partnered with them as part of an Ideas to Action project…Proceeds from the bids and ticket sales all goes to student scholarships, according to a news release from the SGA…