Campus opens Nov. 28 for Iron Bowl fans
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 13
The University of Alabama campus will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 27, for the Thanksgiving holiday. For fans planning to attend this year’s Iron Bowl game, the on-campus RV lots requiring reservations will open at 8 a.m. Friday, Nov. 28. Tailgaters can start to set up their tents on the Quad and other areas of the campus at noon on Nov. 28.
The free RV lot in the University Mall/Northington Elementary area will open at 8 a.m. on Nov. 27. For more information on activities for Iron Bowl weekend, go to www.uagameday.com.
Alabama sturgeon on the brink of extinction
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 13
… “Alabama Conservation Resources is still following it around, so we know it’s still alive,” said Bernie Kuhajda, a fish biologist with the University of Alabama’s Biological Sciences Division who has been studying the Alabama sturgeon for the last 15 years.
The Alabama sturgeon is one of the rarest invertebrates in North America, Kuhajda added. The fish has existed for around 75 million years. But the species was hurt by construction of dams on Alabama Rivers. “It’s so rare because of the dams,” Kuhajda said. “They stopped the migration of the sturgeon upstream and impaired the development of the larval sturgeons.” Kuhajda hopes that by being listed as one of the “desperate dozen,” it might spur efforts to save the fish.
Birmingham News – Nov. 13
A ‘Neaux’ way of looking at feminism
Crimson White – Nov. 13
…The lecture, titled “Five Feministas: (Re)Claiming Feminism in the Neaux Wave”, focused on the perception of feminism and what it means to be feminist in present day society. Instead of following the traditional lecture format, it used a performance as a means to communicate ideas to the audience…The idea for the performance had its roots in a class taught by Natalie Adams, assistant dean of the Graduate School and professor of instructional leadership. This class focused on education and women’s studies…
UA Uses Second Life to Teach Students
WHNT (Huntsville) – Nov. 12
Next spring, some students will take part in second life…University of Alabama professors say it will help teach tech-savvy students…Dr. Rick Houser says younger individuals seem to gravitates towards this because they are comfortable with this…
A lesson in diabetes
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 13
Photo cutline: Dana Lewis is seen here in a diabetes class on the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa.
…For 20-year-old college student Dana Lewis, diabetes isn’t the result of an unhealthy lifestyle. Lewis suffers from Type 1 diabetes, which is incurable. Staying healthy isn’t an option but a life or death mandate. But living with the disease hasn’t depressed her spirit. Instead, it has inspired her to enlighten the world. Lewis balances serving as an international youth ambassador for the American Diabetes Association, being a full-time student and teaching a freshman seminar called ‘Living with Diabetes.’…’It’s a class targeted towards first-year students with diabetes, but we have students in the class who don’t have diabetes too. There are nursing students, engineering, business students — we have everybody because diabetes affects everybody,’ Lewis said…