Alabama graduate students to travel to meet Nobel Laureates
Al.com – June 20
Two University of Alabama graduate schools will travel to Germany later this summer to interact with more than 30 Nobel Prize-winning scientists at a week-long conference. Michele Stover and Steven Kelley, both Mississippi natives, have been selected to attend the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting with more that 600 other students from around the world. The conference is designed specifically to foster the interaction between young researchers and leaders in their fields of study. “I have always found new insight by discussing research at meetings, and the chance to spend a week with such an internationally distinguished group of researchers ought to be one of the most enriching experiences I’ll get as a student,” Kelley said.
Graduate Management Admission Council Names New Board Chair and Two New Board Members
Wall Street Journal – June 19
At its annual business meeting today in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Graduate Management Admission Council welcomed a new chair and two members to its board of directors. Chairing the GMAC board will be Dina Dommett, executive director, leadership programs at London Business School. Arriving to the board are J. Michael Hardin, Dean and Thomas D. Russell Professor of Business Administration of Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Alabama; and Toby McChesney, assistant dean of graduate recruiting and student services of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
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From foster care to college: A little help bettering the odds
90.3 WBHM – June 19
Whether it’s summer, spring, or fall term, some young people have trouble adjusting to campus life. College students coming from foster care face extra hurdles: 70 percent want to get a degree, but roughly three percent graduate by age 25. For the third and final part of the Southern Education Desk series “From Foster Care To College: Extra Help For Extra Hurdles,” WBHM’s Dan Carsen recently went to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa to learn about a new program that’s trying to better the odds: To understand this story, you have to understand something that happened in 2010. It’s fall. Students arrive on campus in SUVs driven by family who help unload furniture and other things they’ll need for their new lives. But one young man, who came from a foster home and had not been to orientation, shows up holding nothing but his admissions letter. Clearly he wasn’t getting the information or support many college students take for granted. Administrators assumed that if there was one student like him, there were more. Out of that grew the Alabama REACH program, founded last summer.
Tuscaloosa city, county education leaders upset about ‘failing schools’ listings
Tuscaloosa News – June 20
Local K-12 education leaders aren’t happy four of their schools — Davis-Emerson Middle, Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, Westlawn Middle and Central High — were slapped with a “failing schools” label this week, but they say they’re already working on plans to improve academic performance. “We’ll look at achievement data, master schedules and where children’s individual weaknesses are,” said Paul McKendrick, superintendent of the Tuscaloosa City Schools, which has three of the failing schools … Peter Hlebowitsh, dean of the college of education at the University of Alabama, said he doesn’t believe the private school tax option will be used much. “It probably won’t because going to a private school is expensive and a lot of the parents of the children on that list probably can’t afford that,” Hlebowitsh said.
UA Supply Store hosts civil rights display
WIAT-CBS (Birmingham) – June 19
More than 20 photographs, depicting the civil rights movement, are being displayed he University of Alabama’s supply store, in the Ferguson Center. This free exhibit will run until June 28 and is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Yes, immigration reform even cuts the deficit
Bloomberg – June 19
Another talking point bites the dust. Opponents of the comprehensive immigration reform working its way through the U.S. Senate have often decried the high cost of legalizing undocumented immigrants. The working theory is that people who endure low wages and a host of other hardships for the opportunity to work undercover would opt for government welfare once they are permitted to work legally … You would think a senator from Alabama, which damaged its economy and its prospects for growth by passing a crude law that drove undocumented immigrants out of state, would know better…One study, published by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama, estimated that the legislation would cost the state more than $2 billion and tens of thousands of jobs.
Newly crowned Miss Michigan represented Saginaw County through open pageant win
Michigan Live – June 19
Miss Saginaw County Haley Williams made her hometown of Saline proud when she took the Miss Michigan crown Saturday, but contestants said Saginaw County citizens also should feel proud of Williams. Williams was crowned Miss Michigan last week. She is Miss Saginaw County, a pageant that is an open competition without residency requirements…Williams said as an out-of-state junior at the University of Alabama, she had hoped to win scholarship money through the Miss America program, which boasts being the biggest provider scholarships for young women in the world.
WJRT-ABC (Flint, Mich.) – June 19
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Diverse lectures and projects this week at Mobile Museum of Art
Al.com – June 19
On Thursday and Friday, The Mobile Museum of Art will be a font of information about water conservation, fantastic flatware and the value of family treasures … 12 p.m. in the Larkins Auditorium: “Eating With Art” lecture. Retired University of Alabama art history professor Dr. Robert Bantens will speak about the MMoA exhibit “Fabulous Flatware: Non Traditional Tools of the Table.”