AIME to display student, faculty research
Crimson White – April 8
The Alabama Innovation and Mentoring of Entrepreneurs will host its first AIME Day Friday to exhibit its students’ and faculty members’ research and inventions. The event begins at 8 a.m. and continues until 4:30 p.m. in the AIME Building across from the Ferguson Center. Dan Daly, faculty director of AIME, said investors will be traveling to the University from various cities, including Chicago, New York, Boston, Atlanta and Birmingham to evaluate the AIME teams’ projects. In addition to presenting their work, students will have networking opportunities with the investors. Companies incubating at the University, certain student teams and engineering department projects will all present their work as part of the AIME Day program …
Officials will open time capsule on UA campus
Birmingham News – April 6 (Print version only)
FOX6 (Birmingham) – April 7
The University of Alabama opens a time capsule Saturday that’s more than a century old. First, participants must break through a layer of lead. The time capsule was placed inside the school’s museum of natural history in May 1907.
UA student creates system to help youths in facilities
Crimson White – April 8
A student in the nursing and computer-based honors program at the University is trying to implement a new system that could help reduce youth incidents in treatment facilities around the state. Since August, Erin Jacobs, a sophomore majoring in nursing, has been working with the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program, a federally mandated protection and advocacy program… “I created this database that houses all of the information for each patient and each incident, and from that what we’re starting to do now is run reports cross referencing those different circumstances to see if any of them are related,” Jacobs said. For example, Jacobs said, boys in the facilities might be more apt to act out on weekends in the mornings compared to any other time …
MSNBC hosts to sign their books Friday at UA
Tuscaloosa News – April 8
University of Alabama alumnus Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of the MSNBC news program “Morning Joe,” will host a book-signing Friday morning at UA’s College of Communication and Information Sciences. They will autograph copies of their books from 8:30-9:45 a.m. in the rotunda at Reese Phifer Hall. Scarborough will sign “The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America’s Promise,” and Brzezinski will sign her memoir, “All Things At Once.”…
SGA starts program to buy books early
Crimson White – April 8
…The Student Government Association recognized this and initiated a system to allow students to order their textbooks for summer and fall 2010 semesters beginning this spring. “We are constantly looking for ways to make student’s lives easier at the Capstone,” said former SGA President Steven Oliver. “With the information now online early, students can save time researching required materials while also receiving valuable class information in time to adequately order their books.”…This joint effort between the SGA, University registrar, the SUPE Store, the division of financial affairs, and office of information technology is off to a good start so far, officials said. “This is a great tool that will help students prepare for summer and fall classes and will aid them in finding the best price for available textbooks,” said Tyler Reed, the former vice president for academic affairs. “We encourage students to utilize the Supply Store because they give back to the University with every purchase.” The University Supply Store will be updating textbook periodically.
Professor dies after illness
Crimson White – April 8
After more than 35 years at the University, Douglas E. Jones, professor emeritus of geological sciences and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, died Friday at 79, after a brief illness. Jones served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1969 to 1984, the director of UA Museums from 1984 to 1997, dean of University Libraries from 1984 to 1986, and acting vice president for academic affairs from 1988 to 1990…“He was very good person and supporter of the University. He believed very strongly in the University and what it was doing, and he has held a number of different positions at the university and did extremely well in managing those,” said former UA President Joab Thomas …