Crimeline awards three scholarships
Seacoast Online (New Hampshire) – July 15
Crimeline for the Hamptons, Inc. presented three $1,000 scholarships to two graduating seniors from Winnacunnet High School and one Great Bay Community College student last month. The non-profit organization awards annual scholarships to students from Hampton, North Hampton, Hampton Falls or Seabrook who wish to pursue careers in law enforcement or criminal justice and to children of police officers. . . . Alexis Gidley, recent graduate of Winnacunnet’s Class of 2016 and one of this year’s Crimeline scholarship recipients, plans to study political science at the University of Alabama on a pre-law track.
AGI honors Dr. Ernest ‘Ernie’ A. Mancini at AAPG Annual Meeting
EurekaAlert – July 15
It is with great pleasure that the American Geosciences Institute announces its 2016 recipient of the Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Medal. Dr. Ernest “Ernie” A. Mancini, Professor Emeritus in Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama has been recognized for his distinguished career in the geosciences spanning research, teaching and service at: the University of Alabama; Texas A&M University; Distinguished Research Professor in the areas of stratigraphy and petroleum geology at the University of Alabama; State Geologist of Alabama and Director of the Geological Survey of Alabama; Oil and Gas Supervisor for Alabama; Director and founder of the Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies at the University of Alabama; First Director of the Berg-Hughes Center for Petroleum and Sedimentary Systems at Texas A&M University; Serving as President at multiple geoscience organizations; Regional Director for the Eastern Gulf Region of the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council; and acting as a science and natural resources advisor to several Alabama governors and the state legislature.
Munchausen by internet: What drives people to fake an illness online?
ABC Health and Wellbeing (Australia) – July 15
Dana Dirr, trauma surgeon and mother of 11, was hit by a drunk driver on the eve of Mother’s Day in 2012. She was pregnant at the time. Doctors managed to save her baby, but Dana died in hospital. To make matters worse, one of her children, a 7-year-old boy, had cancer at the time. Dana’s husband posted an emotional tribute to his wife on Facebook, which quickly went viral — eliciting an outpouring of grief. But the story turned out to be entirely fake. . . . “Munchausen syndrome refers to people who have evolved a severe and chronic lifestyle in which they lie about illness, actually enact illness or exaggerate an illness they have, or, in the most extreme cases, make themselves sick,” Professor Marc Feldman said. Professor Feldman, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama and the world’s foremost authority on Munchausen syndrome, says Munchausen by internet is the latest iteration a syndrome with a long history.
Study links job problems to parenting
Times of India – July 15
Parents, take note! If your kids have problems at work, you may be responsible to some extent for the trouble, according to a new study which found a link between parenting styles and workplace behaviour. “It really is about both parents, but because mothers are typically the primary caregivers of the children, they usually have more influence on their children,” said Peter Harms from University of Alabama in the US. Researchers studied manager-employee relationships in the workplace and found a link between parenting styles and workplace behaviour.
Center for Advanced Safety at University of Alabama says playing Pokemon Go can be dangerous
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – July 14
There are some more warnings about playing the suddenly popular game Pokemon Go. The Center for Advanced Safety at The University of Alabama says the game can be dangerous. Even walking around and not looking up can put you in danger, and that worries UA’s CAPS Deputy Director Matthew Hudnall.