Billionaire offers students lessons
Tuscaloosa News – April 21
…Koch is the founder of the Oxbow Group, a diversified holding company that Forbes magazine lists as one of the country’s largest privately owned companies. Forbes estimated his personal fortune at $3.4 billion. On Wednesday, Koch visited the University of Alabama, meeting with faculty and students at the business and engineering schools. Koch said in business and yachting he made mistakes but that he learned valuable lessons from them. One is to be extremely careful in hiring and to look for people with high ethics. “Then focus on what you do extremely well,” he said. “Also know the difference between perception and reality.”…
College of Education to screen documentary on bullying
Crimson White – April 21
The College of Education will host a viewing of “Bullied,” a documentary created by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit civil rights organization fighting hate crimes and helping those who are victims of hate crimes. Teaching Tolerance is a project of the SPLC that attacks bullying in schools by finding ways to end the conflicts while aiding the students affected by bullying. The screening of “Bullied” will be held in Graves Hall Room 118 tonight at 6 and is expected to run until 8 p.m. The event is open to both students and members of the Tuscaloosa community, and it is a free event…The panelists present at the documentary will be Principal of Hillcrest Middle School C’Kimba Hobbs; Anthony Harris, a teacher at Bryant High School; Josh Burford, coordinator of student development programming at the University; and Joyce Stallworth, senior associate dean of the College of Education. “We consider bullying a very important and serious topic,” Stallworth said. “Our students particularly must understand why bullying happens and how to prevent it.”…
Employers look to recruit at final career fair
Crimson White – April 21
The University of Alabama Career Center will host the final career fair of the school year today in the Ferguson Center Ballroom from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m…Mary Lowrey, Career Center assistant director, said career consultants from the UA Career Center along with several volunteers from Student Affairs will operate practice stations called “Prep Steps” for students going into the career fair in the ballroom. “After hearing employers say that students need to work on soft skills including handshake, eye-contact and delivery of a 30-second introduction, we decided to offer practice stations,” Lowrey said…
Survey gauges community service involvement
Crimson White – April 22
The Community Service Center is asking students to participate in its first annual Civic Engagement Survey. Wahnee Sherman, CSC director, said the point of the ongoing survey is to analyze student involvement with community service, service learning and engagement… “I think it will be great to see what areas students are most interested in and what areas students have been engaged in,” Sherman said. “There may be areas that students have done service in that we weren’t aware of, so [the survey] will allow us to adjust what we are offering.”…
New home construction picks up in Birmingham
Birmingham Business Journal – April 21
New home construction in the Birmingham area began to thaw in February, according to recent data from the Alabama Center for Real Estate. The University of Alabama center said 120 single-family home building permits were issued in February, a 9.1 percent increase over January…
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 20
Improbable Fictions to perform ‘Hamlet’
Crimson White – April 21
…Improbable Fictions will present a staged reading of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” tonight at 7:30 in Farrah Hall Room 214. The event is free and open to the public. Pre-show music will begin at 7 p.m., and the reading will run about two hours and 20 minutes, including an intermission…The University’s Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies sponsors Improbable Fictions…
Award-winning author shares career, life experiences with students via Skype session
Opelika-Auburn News – April 21
…everything was fair game for discussion when approximately 20 Loachapoka High School students got the opportunity to pitch questions to author Rick Bragg via a Skype session in the school’s media center Wednesday. The Skype session with Bragg was part of the Alabama Rural Writing Partners program… “I had to be tougher, and maybe a little smarter and maybe a little thicker-skinned,” said Bragg, a writing professor at the University of Alabama…
Residents taking to Twitter to report damage across Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa News – April 21
… The University of Alabama Meteorological Society, under the Twitter name @UAMS1, reported a tree down in front of Paty Hall on the university’s campus. Other students reported trees down on campus, as well…