Students learn during play
Tuscaloosa News – April 21
About 90 students from Matthews and Holt elementary schools gathered on the University of Alabama Quad on Monday for a day of hula-hooping, sack races and storytelling. The elementary students are participating in the Tuscaloosa One Place after-school program, with UA students acting as mentors and tutors…
Earth Day a time for sober reflection
Tuscaloosa News – April 21
…But, as was evident on the Quad on Sunday, where hundreds of UA students turned out despite dicey weather and a thunderstorm that brought the festivities to a halt, Earth Day is also a time for celebration, even when you jump the gun by a couple of days…The scene on the UA campus Sunday will be repeated across the globe tomorrow on the 40th annual Earth Day when we should all take a moment to contemplate that we only have one planet to live on and our charge is to take care of it as best we can.
Education briefs
Birmingham News – April 21
The University Of Alabama College Of Engineering announced Viola Acoff, professor of metallurgical and materials engineering and interim head of chemical and biological engineering, as the 2009 T. Morris Hackney Faculty Leadership award recipient. — Kim Sydow Campbell, professor of management communication in the marketing and management department at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce, has been named winner of the 2009 Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for outstanding contributions to engineering communication. — Jennings Bryant, Reagan Endowed Chair of Broadcasting and associate dean for graduate studies and research for the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award.
UAB professor’s firm wins latest Alabama Launchpad
Birmingham Business Journal – April 20
An entrepreneurial group led by a University of Alabama at Birmingham professor won the $100,000 first prize in the latest Alabama Launchpad competition. Innovative Composite Solutions won the annual entrepreneurial competition for its design and development of high-end thermoplastic composite components for various industries, including military and aerospace…A UAB-University of Alabama partnership, Spectrum PhenomX, took second place and the $50,000 prize. Spectrum develops ways to measure how variant genes can change cellular activities that trigger specific disease processes.
Third place and $25,000 went to Direct Injection Flat Head Engine Co., representing the University of Alabama. Direct Injection engines offer a patent-pending alternative to carburetors. Its technology gives small engine companies a way to increase the efficiency of their engines and address reduced emissions mandates.