Take a look inside Alabama’s brand new Supe Store next to Starbucks, near Bryant-Denny
Al.com – July 25
A retail space combining a new University of Alabama Supply Store and a Starbucks Coffee Co. featuring drive-thru service opened last Friday, and you can bet Crimson Tide fans will swarm the spot on Saturdays this fall. The two-story, 26,000-square-foot space is located at 807 Bryant Drive between Tutwiler Hall and Eighth Avenue. Just a short walk from Bryant-Denny Stadium, expect high foot traffic between the buildings throughout the 2016 season.
SEC Country – July 25
University of Alabama Secures $8 Million Contract for Integrated Health Care
The Lafayette Sun – July 25
The University of Alabama School of Social Work has partnered with the Alabama Department of Mental Health to work on an $8 million project to expand a substance abuse and mental health programs to underprivileged areas of Alabama. The program is known as AL-SBIRT and will run for a span of five years. It is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that has worked to implement similar programs in other states across the country.
Workplace relationships on the rocks? This might be why
Human Resources Media – July 25
If your relationship with your boss is going through a rough patch, new research has some surprising answers about what’s behind those rocky workplace relationships. Here’s how to spot them and what to do about them. The study How Leader and Follower Attachment Styles Are Mediated by Trust has uncovered a link between parenting styles and how people establish workplace relationships, particularly with their boss or manager. Researcher Dr Peter Harms, an assistant professor at University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce, says he and his colleagues speculated that individuals might carry patterns of thinking learned as far back as infancy.
UA Political Science Professor comments on Democratic Convention
WVUA 23 (Tuscaloosa) – July 25
Fallout over the emails led DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to announce her resignation Sunday. UA political science experts say her leaving now isn’t a huge surprise since, if elected, Hillary Clinton would have, more than likely, replaced her.
Work And Wealth In Scripture: The Great Moral Issue Of Our Time Framed By Our Country’s Sacred Heritage
Style Magazine – July 25
Like the Biblical prophets of old, Bernie Sanders just wouldn’t go away. In spite of overwhelming odds against his presidential bid, he still continued to draw huge crowds with his message that “the issue of wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time.” Larry Clayton, author of Work and Wealth in Scripture: How to Grow, Prosper and Work as a Christian (Wipf & Stock, 2015), agrees … Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alabama, Clayton has published numerous, award-winning scholarly works.
University Boulevard reopens; first phase of improvements finished
Tuscaloosa News – July 25
University Boulevard has reopened following completion of roadwork, which closed sections of the street around the University campus this summer. Earlier this summer, University Boulevard from Sixth Avenue to roughly the site of the marching band’s practice field was closed for the first phase of an $11.3-million road improvements project designed to enhance aesthetics and reduce the speed of traffic entering the eastern side of campus.
Why was Christopher and Julie Conley’s toddler returned to them after DCF found evidence of medical child abuse?
Mass Live – July 25
When the Department of Children and Families sought emergency custody last year of a 7-year-old girl whom doctors suspected had been poisoned by her parents, it didn’t have to start a new file on the couple. The department had been aware of Christopher and Julie Conley for at least six years, going back to 2009, when the girl was a toddler suffering from what a prosecutor has called unexplained medical issues … “The risk of reabuse in confirmed Munchausen by proxy cases is very high,” said Marc Feldman, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama who has studied Munchausen by proxy cases for 25 years.