University of Alabama board approves Tutwiler Hall replacement
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 23
The University of Alabama System board of trustees approved preliminary plans for a $124-million replacement for Tutwiler Residential Hall, along with plans to buy a downtown building in Tuscaloosa. The board on Friday approved the preliminary scope and a budget of $124 million for a replacement for Tutwiler Hall. The new 520,521-square-foot building would be able to house around 1,583 students.
Crimson White – Sept. 26
Birmingham Business Journal – Sept. 26
Alabama Homecoming Schedule 2016
AL.com – Sept. 26
Alabama’s annual Homecoming week is here, and the school has a busy schedule ahead. Steeped in tradition and fun, homecoming always offers plenty to do for families, student and alumni making their way back to campus, including the pep rally, bonfire, parade and much more.
Homecoming Week starts with Roll Tide 5K Run
WVUA 23 (Tuscaloosa) – Sept. 23
The Roll Tide Roll run, an annual 5K race, that kicks off Homecoming Week was held today. Many UA students participated in the race to gain points for their organizations and clubs on campus. Awards were also given out. UA Student Tommy Williams says he believes this is a great way to meet people.
IdentityMind Goes Social To Tackle False Declines
PYMNTS – Sept. 26
IdentityMind announced the launch of its new solution that uses social network intelligence to help companies reduce false positives by 50 percent. Weave, a sanctions screening tool released today (Sept. 26), enables FinTechs, financial institutions and online merchants to utilize IdentityMind’s patent-pending eDNA™ technology to check against more than 30 sanctions and 30+ sanctions lists and IdentityMind’s own Politically Exposed Person (PEP) list. “Terrorism is a threat to us all. To stop it, we all need to do our part to cut off its lifeblood — the funding,” Reginald Hyde, executive director of University of Alabama’s Cyber Institute, explained.
Fine Extra – Sept. 26
Investigators said they killed for ISIS. But were they different from ‘regular’ mass killers?
Washington Post – Sept. 23
Dahir Adan, a former Apollo High School honor student, walked into a mall here last Saturday and stabbed 10 people before an off-duty police officer shot him dead. The Islamic State hailed him as one of its soldiers. The FBI has hesitated to describe Adan’s rampage as an ideologically inspired terrorist attack and Thursday night called on witnesses – ideally with videos – to come forward … “The attackers themselves act and feel like victims,” said Adam Lankford, a criminologist at the University of Alabama. “Various words are used. Persecution. Discrimination. Bullying. Humiliation. Mistreatment. The sense that someone else is picking on me and is out to get me.”
Reading Eagle (Pa.) – Sept. 23
UA workshop helps law enforcement officers interact with deaf
Alabama News Center – Sept. 23
As nearly 20 law enforcement officers from across four different agencies sat in a theatre-style room last week at the University of Alabama, all but one revealed an interaction that surprised workshop organizers Dr. Darrin Griffin and Erin Powell. Nearly all of the officers said they’d had a previous interaction while on duty with a person who was deaf or hard of hearing. “Ninety percent of hearing people meet a deaf person for the first time when it’s their own child who becomes deaf,” said Griffin, assistant professor of communication studies at UA and advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing. “That’s a pretty striking statistic.”
New anglophone group to make pitch for Quebec sovereignty
Canada.com – Sept. 24
Anglophone sovereignists of Quebec, unite. A Nova-Scotia born anglophone Parti Québécois member has launched a pro-sovereignty group — Anglophones for Quebec Independence. Describing itself as a “non-partisan group,” AQI unveiled its plan to promote separation on Friday at the headquarters of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal, a nationalist group … Drouin said she has been a member of the PQ since 1998 and moved to Quebec in 2001. She founded a sovereignist group at McGill University while she was a student there between 2002 and 2005. She lives in Quebec but is an associate English professor at the University of Alabama. The university’s website says Drouin is on a “research leave in Montreal.”
UA professor gives tips for keeping safe online after Yahoo Data Breach
WVUA 23 (Tuscaloosa) – Sept 23
Some five hundred million Yahoo! users found out Thursday that their personal information may be in jeopardy. The breach dates back to 2014. Information including names, phone numbers, birthdays, security questions and passwords were compromised. It s the largest publically-known cyber breach to date. However, a local professor (Dr. Adam Tehrani-Ghazi) says, that despite the breaches, there are always ways to protect yourself. “Number one tip for protecting yourself online is to use a different password with every single website. Your Gmail password should be different from your yahoo password, should be different from your banking password. Other tips include giving un-true information on your security questions just remember your false answers.”
Million Dollar Band shows off new addition to Frank M. Moody Music Building
WVUA 23 (Tuscaloosa) – Sept. 23
The University of Alabama’s Million Dollar Band got a new space to hangout. They had their open house today at Moody Music Hall. This building features locker rooms, rehearsal rooms, and lockers to store instruments, as well as areas for band members to socialize. Annie Roberson, a Million Dollar Band Trumpet player says the new facility has already changed how the band functions.
What To Read On Trump(ism)
Huffington Post – Sept. 23
But the Tea Party is not the only conservative uprising against the Republicans In Name Only (RINO). In a fascinating new book, Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism, University of Alabama political scientist George Hawley presents an overview of the heterogeneous fauna of right-wing groups and individuals that exist in the shadows of the GOP, from libertarians to white supremacists.
This mom battled for her son, and she paid a price
Boston Globe – Sept. 24
It should have been an occasion for celebration, for elation, for deep satisfaction over achieving what had often seemed an impossible goal. And Christine McSherry did feel a sense of joy. For 15 years, the Pembroke mother has waged an unceasing crusade to find a cure for the ghastly muscle-wasting disease that afflicts her son. While she battled, she watched desperately as Jett, her middle child, gradually lost his ability to walk, to use the bathroom without assistance, even to feed himself … Stephanie McSherry, 22, who will graduate from the University of Alabama in December, sums up her mother’s campaign this way: “The personal toll it took on our family was outrageous.”
Tragedy’s impact still felt today
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 24
Coming from a family of coal miners, the Rev. Monroe Cullen Williams knows how easy it is to fall into routine. “I think about how many coal miners left home before the beginning of their shift and waved goodbye and when they get off work, they come back, because we’ve done that over and over,” Williams said to people gathered Friday at the Miners’ Memorial Monument in Brookwood … “It’s just a reminder that everyone has lost a life in this industry,” said Boyd, who is now a freshman at the University of Alabama. “It reminds you that anything can happen.”
Shorter earns certificate
Dothan Eagle – Sept. 24
Barbour County Probate Judge Susan H. Shorter received a Certificate of Completion from Clay Hornsby, Deputy Director of the Alabama Law Institute, Penny Davis, former Associate Director of the Alabama Law Institute and coordinator of probate judge training, and Honorable Bill English, President of the Alabama Probate Judges Association for attending the “Law for Probate Judges Course.” This course was conducted by the Alabama Law Institute and the Alabama Probate Judges Association at the University of Alabama School Of Law.