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This week at The University of Alabama: Halloween events include Haunting at the Museum, Sorority Row Trick-or-Treat – Students, professors publish book chapter on app for children with autism – Researchers look to butterflies to improve flight – Chinese professors visit School of Social Work – Experts offer tips for job interviews, managing stress – Engineering, art students host exhibit

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This week at The University of Alabama: Freshmen begin college with Alabama Action and Outdoor Action – Week of Welcome features events for new students – College of Nursing receives major grant – UA experts comment on student loan rates, doping and baseball, impact of closing embassies on terrorism – Social work conference – Civil engineering symposium

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This week at The University of Alabama: Start-up companies prep for Launchpad presentations – High school students participate in Ernst & Young MAP program – Students blog from Nobel Laureate meeting in Germany – UA School of Social Work hosts program for high school students in foster care – UA hosts workshop on severe weather warning process – Child-care expert offers kindergarten preparation guidance

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This week at The University of Alabama: Social work professor to give “Last Lecture” – UA named to Community Service Honor Roll for fourth time – Two students receive Goldwater Scholarships – UA expert comments on media coverage of breaking news events – Cuban poet visits campus – UA hosts high school finance competition – Hovercraft teams to race at Lake Lurleen

Suspending Belief: Virtual Reality Lab to Provide Coping, Research Opportunities

Suspending Belief: Virtual Reality Lab to Provide Coping, Research Opportunities

The University of Alabama will soon become the third university in the country, researchers say, to have a social work virtual reality lab.

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This week at The University of Alabama: UA officials to honor soldiers wounded and killed in the line of duty at Washington, D.C. ceremony – UA named Tillman Military Scholars partner – UA program prepares students as child life specialists – SPLC outreach director to speak at School of Social Work – Events

Exonerated Death Row Inmate to Speak at UA

An event titled “The Death Penalty from a Social Justice Perspective,” featuring Gary Drinkard, exonerated Alabama death row survivor, and Joanne Terrell, faculty member in The University of Alabama School of Social Work and death penalty mitigator, will be held Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 6 p.m.

UA Guest to Present on Combating Adolescent Substance Abuse

Guest speaker Dr. Lori K. Holleran Steiker, associate professor of social work at the University of Texas at Austin, will discus substance abuse issues in social work during a presentation at The University of Alabama’s School of Social Work Colloquium Series.

UA Doctoral Student to Attend Dinner with Biden

A second-year doctoral student from The University of Alabama School of Social Work will attend a dinner with Vice President Joe Biden honoring the nation’s emerging LGBT leaders.

UA Senior Earns Lucy Foster Award; Nominated for ‘Do Something Awards’

University of Alabama senior social work major Adrienne McCollum recently received the 2012 Autherine Lucy Foster Award, given annually by the UA Black Student Union and Black Faculty and Staff Association