UA Dancers Rehearse for Edinburgh Fringe Festival (gallery)
Tuscaloosa News – July 31
Eight University of Alabama dance majors rehearse the piece “Co/Lapse” at Morgan Hall on the UA campus in Tuscaloosa, Ala. on Sunday, July 31, 2016. Nine UA students, eight dance majors and one theatre lighting and design are preparing for performances at Edinburgh, Scotland’s Fringe Festival. The group of students, accompanied by Sarah and Mark Barry, leave Tuesday to travel to Scotland.
Tuscaloosa News – July 31
UA’s Community Music School concludes summer music camp
WVUA 23 (Tuscaloosa) – July 29
The Alberta School of performing Arts concluded its summer music camp which included the talents of students from across Tuscaloosa. It was put on by the Community School of Music from The University of Alabama. throughout the week, the students prepared for their big concert this evening.
UA senior Casey Suchocki advances to finals in American Ninja Warrior
Tuscaloosa News – July 31
University of Alabama senior Casey Suchocki is headed to Las Vegas for the national finals on the eighth season of American Ninja Warrior. Suchocki is among the 15 competitors from the regional contest in Atlanta who advanced to the finals. The 24-year-old civil and construction engineering major at UA was a walk-on this year in Atlanta, one of five regional qualifying competitions nationwide for the contest.
1 in 5 high-schoolers are victims of bullies
Tuscaloosa News – July 30
Emily Scarber was just 13 when she started getting death threats and other hostile messages on social media. Some of the messages were the kind typically dismissed as “kid stuff,” like the ones that said “Nobody likes you.” But there were others, messages that still make her uneasy when she thinks about them … Laura Hopson, an associate professor and director of the bachelor’s degree in social work at the University of Alabama, has researched bullying. Bullying behavior can have negative effects for the targets, the perpetrators and the bystanders, she said. “Targets might have a lot of missed days of school, symptoms of anxiety and their academic performance could suffer,” she said. “People who perpetrate bullying have an increased liklihood of problem behavior later in life, including behavior that results in incarceration.”
Tuscaloosa News (gallery) – July 30
DUI citations don’t decrease in places where there is UBER
Fox 6 (Birmingham, AL) – July 29, 2016
Rhonda Stricken, of the University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety, says it may be too early to draw conclusions from this data. “Don’t discount them because our numbers are up. Maybe [Uber) is starting to work and it hasn’t been long enough to see the effect, or maybe not enough people know about it yet,” said Stricklin.
WTVM-ABC (Columbus, GA) – July 29
Mouser applauds Winners of TI Innovation Challenge Design Contest
Power Systems Design – July 29
Mouser Electronics is pleased to congratulate the winners of the Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge North America Design Contest, including the team from Texas A&M University that took top honors. Mouser is the exclusive sponsor of the contest, which encourages engineering students to invent real-world solutions by submitting design projects that use TI technology … Matthew Bries and Nagaraj Hegde of the University of Alabama took third place with SmartStep, a device that uses a TI Bluetooth® low energy CC2540 wireless microcontroller to monitor a person’s activity through the insoles of their shoes.
Wednesday Warriors #45: With one zombie comic ending, how does it compare to ‘Walking Dead’?
Al.com – July 31
One of my guiltiest pleasures in the world of comic books is the gruesome “Crossed” universe of stories from Avatar Press … But here’s the thing. “Walking Dead” is an exemplary form of zombie literature because it uses the threat posed by walkers to examine humanity. “The things that make good zombie fiction good are the same things that make good stories good,” as University of Alabama assistant professor and zombie expert Matthew Payne told me last year. “If it’s about character development, if it’s about moral choices, if it’s about complexity, it’s about thoughtfulness.”
Alumni commissioned into Marine Corps
Crimson White – July 29
A married couple was commissioned into the United States Marine Corps as second lieutenants in an unlikely fashion during a ceremony at the University Club. Reagan Reynolds of Natchitoches, Texas said he has always wanted to have a career in the military. Having trying to enlist in college, he was encouraged to go officer candidate school. He didn’t know that his career choices would lead him to find a partner who would one day commission him in to the military. Reagan met Rebecca Horwath Reynolds of Muskego, Wisconsin in class while attending the University of Alabama. Reagan says he asked Rebecca to marry him at the cliffs at Lake Nichols by candlelight last November. They decided to get married sooner than expected when they found out they were more likely to go in to the Marine Corps together as a married couple. Rebecca said the original plan was to get married quickly at the courthouse, but it worked out so they could have a small wedding with family and friends.
COLLEGE NEWS: July 31
Tuscaloosa News – July 30
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — The University of Alabama Student Government Association received two awards at the Southeastern Conference Student Government Exchange Conference in July in Gainesville, Florida. It received the 2015-16 Student Government of the Year honor for an SGA that has “excelled in campus leadership in the past year . . . Melinda King has joined the University of Alabama’s Career Center as its new executive director. She previously served as Land O’Lakes senior manager of diversity and inclusion. . . AUBURN UNIVERSITY — Rick Bragg is one of five veteran media professionals selected to receive 2016 Auburn Journalism Honors awards on Sept. 9. Bragg is a professor of writing in the journalism department of the University of Alabama.
Summer Jobs Series: Learning by repetition
Commercial Dispatch (Mississippi) – July 30
Miya Snell of Crawford may enjoy her summer job more than most students. The University of Alabama sophomore is spending her third consecutive summer working for Sweet Peppers Deli in Columbus and said her job has only gotten easier and more fun as the summers pass. “It’s one of the best working environments I’ve ever been in,” Snell said. “I love it here. I think that’s why I keep coming back.”
Polk County student news
Lakeland Ledger (Florida) – July 31
Water Ski Foundation scholarships … The 2016 USA Water Ski Foundation scholarship recipients were recently announced. Ellie Horton, a senior at Florida Southern College, is the recipient of the $5,000 Barbara Bolding/Jim Grew Scholarship … Julianna Myrick, a freshman at the University of Alabama, is the recipient of the $2,000 Southern Region/Elmer Staling Scholarship.
Milennials organize to advance consistent life ethic
National Catholic Reporter – July 31
They’re Catholics, Protestants and secularists, veterans of pro-life and anti-poverty groups, with roots in different political parties. While some members live near the Life Matters Journal “home base” in Pittsburgh, others are part of a digital network that spans the country … Layout editor Maria Oswalt, a rising senior at the University of Alabama who was raised Catholic, said she was a death-penalty proponent in high school. But when she got to college and joined the pro-life group, she met other students who saw life issues through a broader lens and began to question her own assumptions.