UA commencement will be held Saturday morning
Tuscaloosa News – July 30
Summer commencement exercises will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at the University of Alabama’s Coleman Coliseum. More than 1,600 degrees will be awarded. The ceremony will be broadcast live over the Internet on Saturday and the video will be archived at ua.edu/commencement/ throughout August. Students from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, the College of Human Environmental Sciences, the Capstone College of Nursing, the College of Commerce and Business Administration, the College of Communication and Information Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Social Work will participate in the ceremony.
Al.com – July 29
UA’s OAR research extends to Trussville site (live interview)
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – July 29
Forget about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, archaeologists in our area have been busy unearthing something. Matthew Gage is here from the university’s Office of Archaeological Research. Let’s talk about what you’re doing … the city of Trussville is in the process of building a stadium …
5 must-do’s as age wave bears down on the USA
USA Today – July 30
As a city that prides itself on being young and hip, Austin didn’t seem to notice that its residents were aging. That is, until a report by the Brookings Institution pointed out that this city’s metro area has the nation’s fastest-growing percentage of “pre-seniors,” ages 55 to 64, with a 110% increase from 2000 to 2010. Among those 65-plus, Austin is the second-fastest growing, after Raleigh-Cary, N.C. “Being a creative community, we’re going to work to find creative solutions,” says Bobbie Barker, 61, co-chair of a task force charged with getting the city up to speed … “Too much leisure time leads to lack of purpose,” says Graham McDougall, 63, a professor of nursing at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa.
Tucson Sun (Ariz.) – July 30
Rattlesnakes and ticks, competition and cannibalism, and Fungi’s potential
Eurekalert – July 29
Human cases of Lyme disease continue to rise in the United States. The bacterial disease—which, if untreated can cause significant neurological problems—is transmitted to people by black-legged ticks, which pick up the pathogen by feeding on infected animals, primarily small mammals such as mice. Previous studies have shown that when fewer predators of small mammals are present, the abundance of ticks goes up, resulting in an increase of Lyme infections in people. Edward Kabay, at East Chapel Hill High School, together with Nicholas Caruso at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and Karen Lips with the University of Maryland, explored how timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) might play a key role in the prevalence of Lyme disease in humans.