Alabama football team visits White House
Tuscaloosa News – March 2
Bellowing out “Roll Tide,” President Barack Obama on Wednesday welcomed the University of Alabama football team to the White House for the fourth time since he became president and said he must have brought it some good luck. Obama, sounding confident in his apparent positive influence as well as in the Crimson Tide’s athletic prowess, said he’d like to welcome the team back in 2017 — “but we’ve got this thing called term limits.” He’ll be out of office at this time next year after serving two terms.
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UA invites parents of children with cancer to participate in care survey
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – March 2
Cancer is a terrible disease and parents of children with it have so much to deal with from day to day that the University of Alabama is starting a study to learn how to better help them. An online survey study by UA will track how families deal each day with their children who have cancer. The questionnaire will ask parents about how they child is doing, if they had to take of work and how their child is responding to treatment. “I was just interested in how can we better help that family. And therefore, we need to kind of understand what their daily experiences are like. We can look back, but what’s it like as they are going through that,” said Sherwood Burns-Nader, Ph.D.
UA students help with tax preparation
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – March 2
Dozens of University of Alabama students are ready to help you do your taxes. Members from UA’s Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility are doing free tax preparation by appointment at Tuscaloosa’s McDonald Hughes Center.
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How parents, romantic partners influence student spending
Phys.org – March 2
When college students introduce a new boyfriend or girlfriend to their parents for the first time, Mom and Dad may have lots of questions for the love interest: Where did you grow up? What’s your major? What are your plans after graduation? New research suggests there might be another question worth asking: How do you manage your money? A study co-authored by researchers at the University of Arizona, University of Minnesota, University of Alabama and University of Wisconsin, Madison, suggests that romantic partners have a significant influence on the financial behavior of college students, even beyond that of students’ parents. Published in the the journal Family Relations, the study explores the unique impact both parents and romantic partners have on the way college students spend, save and budget their money.
“Use It Or Lose It” Is True For Your Brain
CapeCod.com – March 2
If you love making quilts for family members or giving loved ones a photo you’ve taken, you’re doing more than passing along a great gift. You’re also giving yourself important mental exercise that could help keep your brain healthy. People who took part in quilting and photography showed enhanced brain activity, according to a recent report in the journal Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. “The present findings provide some of the first experimental evidence that mentally challenging leisure activities can actually change brain function and that it is possible that such interventions can restore levels of brain activity to a more youth-like state,” senior author Denise C. Park, PhD, of the Center for Vital Longevity, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, said in a press release about the study.
University of Alabama elects new SGA president
Tuscaloosa News – March 2
University of Alabama junior Lillian Roth was elected Student Government Association president for 2016-17. On Tuesday, 13,751 votes were cast via online, according to the unofficial results. Roth, a political science major from Montgomery, received 53.87 percent of the votes, defeating challengers Patrick Fitzgerald, a junior from Harvest and Caroline Morrison, a junior from Vestavia Hills.
Star columnist, author Hardy Jackson wins UA award
Anniston Star – March 2
Hardy Jackson can’t remember a time when he wasn’t interested in history. Jackson grew up in a family of storytellers interested in Alabama’s past. His father was a devoted family historian. “It was just something I absorbed over the years,” Jackson said. The 73-year-old Alabamian has spent much of his life teaching and writing about the history of his state. His work hasn’t gone unnoticed. The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences will present Jackson on Friday with the 2016 Clarence Cason Award in nonfiction writing. Each year, UA bestows the award to a recipient with a strong connection to Alabama and whose writings have made a critical contribution to the journalism and literature of the South.