Grissom grad leads push for diabetes awareness program
Huntsville Times – Sept. 30
Grissom High graduate Dana Lewis is making waves that can be felt from cafeterias and classrooms in Tuscaloosa…her fellow students at the University of Alabama are benefiting from her pursuit – especially those who, like her, have diabetes. As a freshman at Alabama in the fall of 2006, Lewis, now 20, was frustrated trying to follow a nutritious diet to regulate her blood sugar. She e-mailed Bama Dining officials, requesting all foods be labeled with nutritional information at the point of service…which serves 35,000 meals weekly at its four cafeterias and another 6,400 at the Food Court in the Ferguson Center…Bama Dining officials offered her an internship the summer after her freshman year. She gladly accepted the challenge of placing nutrition labels near food items sold on campus, which took 18 months to complete. Those labels are now a permanent fixture at UA. But that wasn’t the only project Lewis instituted during her internship. She is also responsible for UA’s recycling program. “Dana was innovative and a welcome addition to the Aramark team,” said A. J. DeFalco, resident district manager of Bama Dining. “She gave us the pulse of the student body. She was an asset to the team in marketing through her initiatives on nutrition educational cards and recycling. She was instrumental in the coordinating and implementation of the corrugated boxes recycling project here on campus.”…
UA student finds inspiration to help health care clinic
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 28
India Williams…a University of Alabama senior studying political science, international studies and philosophy who is also director of the Good Shepherd’s Project…The Good Samaritan Clinic, a non-profit, faith-based, free health care clinic was in dire need of a new building, and Williams saw an opportunity to bring different denominations and races together to help Tuscaloosa…Williams is also a fellow with the Blackburn Institute, a division of UA student affairs. One of the institute’s scholarships, the Daniel Foundation Community Scholars Program, a scholarship to fund projects started by Blackburn fellows, gave the Good Shepherd’s Project seed money to begin helping the clinic, said Marc Shook, director of the Blackburn Institute. Williams and her team of 10 student volunteers also persuaded UA sororities and fraternities to donate 25 percent of the proceeds from this year’s Greekfest to the cause…
Festival to include Native American dance troupe
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 30
An American Indian dance troupe from Cherokee, N.C., that re-creates dances from the 1700s will be the featured attraction as the Moundville Native American Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary Wednesday through Saturday…The festival is held annually at the University of Alabama’s Moundville Archaeological Park…Park Director Bill Bomar said the same number of people are expected to visit the four-day festival. ‘We have had as many as 15,000 at some festivals, but I think the price of gasoline may hold the crowds down to about what they’ve been the last couple of years,’ he said. ‘We also have a home [University of Alabama] football game Saturday afternoon, which may also hold the crowds down somewhat…
Tommy Stevenson Blog: ‘Big Apple of 14th Century’ holding annual festival this week
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 30
…the University of Alabama’s Moundville Archaeological Park where the 20th annual Moundville Native American Festival begins Wednesday and runs through Saturday…The annual festival brings in tribes from all over the southeast to perform authentic dances, play native music and demonstrate traditional arts and crafts. This year the star attractions will be the Warriors of Anikituhwa, a Cherokee, N.C.-based dance troop that perform dances dating back to the late 1700s. Judging from the photos I got from the good folks at the park, it should be quite a show, as you can see from the fierce warrior with this post…
Tim James seeks ‘pledges’ before start of fundraising
Mobile Register – Sept. 30
…”One could claim that undermines the intent,” of the law said David Lanoue, a political science professor at the University of Alabama. “But candidates routinely touch base with contributors.”…
EDUCATION BRIEFS
Birmingham News – Sept. 30
Doug Husak, a professor in the philosophy department at Rutgers, will present the lecture “Four Points about Drug Criminalization” Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in room 30 of ten Hoor Hall on the University of Alabama campus as part of the 2008-09 Philosophy Today lecture series.…The University of Alabama Community Service Center is offering an alternative winter break for students Dec. 28-Jan. 6 in the Costa Rican rain forest. Participants will stay with host families and help with community service projects….