UA baseball team to play in Cuba
WPTV (West Palm Beach, Fla.) – Dec. 16
NBC 13 (Birmingham) – Dec. 16
WTLV (Jacksonville, Fla.) – Dec. 16
WNYT (Albany, N.Y.) – Dec. 16
WBIR (Knoxville, Tenn.) – Dec. 16
The University of Alabama’s baseball team is holding court in Cuba for part of their Christmas break. The team will be playing the country’s top university team…
Viva la beisbol!
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 17
It was the most diplomatic of results in a baseball series that has tried — not always successfully — to remain officially uninvolved with diplomacy. University of Alabama rightfielder Kent Matthes slugged a two-run home run and backup first baseman Wes Henderson threw out Henry Urritia at the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning to preserve a 3-3 tie in the first game of the ‘Friendship Tournament’ between the Crimson Tide and an all-star team from the Cuban Institute of Sport at Stadium Latino-Americano in Havana, Cuba Tuesday afternoon.
UA botanist develops anti-freeze spray for plants
KFYR (Bismarck, N.D.) – Dec. 16
…University of Alabama botanist Dr. David Francko developed a solution that works like an anti-freeze for plants…
1,500 receive degrees at UA winter commencement
Birmingham News – Dec. 17
The University of Alabama awarded about 1,500 degrees during winter commencement Saturday, bringing to more than 206,000 the number of degrees awarded since its founding in 1831. Among those receiving degrees was 94-year-old Bert Bank, a former Alabama legislator and Bataan Death March survivor who was awarded an honorary doctorate…A complete list of students awarded degrees is available at www.uanews.ua.edu/anews2008/dec08/commencement121508.htm
Education briefs
Birmingham News – Dec, 17
“Elizabeth Murray: Prints” will be on display from Jan. 8 until Feb. 8 in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 103 Garland Hall on the University of Alabama campus. A reception will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 8. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays except Thursdays, when they are 9 a.m.-8 p.m. — Biology students at the University of Alabama are participating in an outreach course designed by the biology department to encourage schoolchildren in science through an after-school program. The upper-level biology students in the course develop a lesson plan that includes hands-on activities for the young students, many of whom are considered “at-risk.”