Tuscaloosa physician named Endowed Chair of Sports Medicine at UA
Al.com – Oct. 6
Dr. James Robinson, a family and sports medicine physician and head team physician for The University of Alabama Athletic Department, has been appointed the first Endowed Chair of Sports Medicine for Family Physicians at UA’s College of Community Health Sciences…The sports medicine center, fellowship and newly endowed chair are all part of the College’s Dr. Patrick Lee Trammell Sr. Excellence in Sports Medicine Program. “The program is an incredible clinical experience,” Robinson says. “The fellows coming out of this program will be well trained and hopefully better trained than those in most other programs in the country.” The program is named in honor of Trammell, a UA quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate who led the Crimson Tide to a National Championship title in 1961. Trammell graduated from the University’s School of Medicine, but as he prepared to start his residency in 1968, he was diagnosed with cancer and died later that year at 28. As the endowed chair, Robinson will be responsible for administrative oversight of the program, which was developed in partnership with the UA Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. He will also teach and supervise sports medicine fellows and family medicine residents and medical students, provide patient care and community outreach and conduct research and more…
UA homecoming activities
Al.com – Oct. 6
Homecoming weekend at the Capstone is always marked by a host of traditional events leading up to the 6 p.m. football game between Alabama and Vanderbilt. The homecoming queen will be announced at the pep rally and bonfire on the Quad Friday night, and the parade will run from downtown Tuscaloosa through campus Saturday afternoon…This week’s tip: UA departments and alumni groups will have tents set up around the Quad for homecoming, with many located in the southwest corner. Take a look at UA Gameday’s homecoming Quad map to find where these are located…The weekend’s homecoming festivities will get started at Friday night’s pep rally and bonfire on the Quad, starting at 7 p.m. The homecoming queen will be announced during this event…The annual homecoming parade will take place at noon Saturday…
Iron Bowl of food drives begins Monday
Al.com – Oct. 7
The University of Alabama and Auburn University will begin their annual food drive competition on Monday, and organizers are encouraging students, faculty, staff and community members to make donations to benefit area food banks. The Beat Auburn Beat Hunger and Beat Bama Food Drive campaigns will accept non-perishable food items and monetary donations in an effort to “beat” the other school in the drive, which will run until Nov. 18…”We want everyone in the UA and Tuscaloosa community to rally behind this cause and donate during the next six weeks in order to reach our goal of 250,000 pounds of food,” Charlotte Brown, director of hunger and homelessness at UA’s Community Service Center, said…On Monday, UA’s Community Service Center will hold a kick-off event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with music, food, and a donation drive to determine which UA official or student will get hit in the face with a pie on Wednesday…
Civil War changed Americans’ view of Providence, historian says
Dallas Baptist Standard – Oct. 6
…Rable, the Charles Summersell Chair in southern history at the University of Alabama and author of God’s Almost Chosen Peoples, spoke at a symposium on the Civil War and religion sponsored by Baylor University’s Institute for the Studies of Religion… religious language, imagery and ideas were pervasive during the Civil War era,” Rable said…”Religious voices, whether Union or Confederate, seldom expressed much doubt that God was on their side,” Rable noted…
KCC Chorale will present fall concert Oct. 11
Kilgore News Herald – Oct. 6
…The concert will include a lecture by Jim Taylor, KC’s Director of Choral Activities, on “Arranging Techniques in the Early American Folk Hymn Arrangements of Alice Parker and Robert Shaw.”…The lecture-recital will be streamed live via Skype to a University of Alabama advisory committee as a part of requirements for Taylor’s Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting. Taylor, who is in the final stages of completing his doctoral degree, has been documenting the entire Parker-Shaw collaboration to fulfill the degree requirements…