UA In the News — Feb. 1

University of Alabama students create app to deliver essentials on demand
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – Jan. 31
Students at the University of Alabama have a solution for you when a convenience store isn’t convenient enough. “We give you time back in your day. So, wherever you go, we go,” said John Newman Ugo Chief Executive Officer. So whether it’s purchasing a bag of chips or other store items, it all can be done in the palm of your hand or at the computer thanks to a business called Ugo, a website and iPhone app create by University of Alabama students. “We have frozen food. We have health and beauty. We really have really you know things like batteries. When you need it we have it,” said Newman. And Ugo is going places, closing in on $100,000 in sales with 400 app users and nearly 8,000 purchases within a year of launching.

UA Political Science professor discusses Jeff Sessions as Attorney General
NBC 13 (Birmingham) – Jan. 31
Joe Smith, chairman of the Political Science Department at The University of Alabama, says it’s likely Jeff Sessions will be approved and will  forward what he calls a comprehensive-conservative approach.

UA Political Science Professor says there are problems with President Trump’s Executive Order
WVUA 23 (Tuscaloosa) – Jan. 31
One University of Alabama professor says that while President Trump does have the right to enact the immigration ban, there are a few issues with the way it is written. Political Science Professor Dr. Allen Linken says the Trump administration has a lot of things to iron out.

Parker-Paulson of Lake Elsinore among winter 2016 graduates at University of Alabama
Valley News (Fallbrook, Calif.) – Jan. 31
Daisy Parker-Paulson of Lake Elsinore, was among some 2,270 students at University of Alabama who were awarded degrees during winter commencement Saturday, Dec. 10. Parker-Paulson received a bachelor’s degree. With this graduating class, University of Alabama will have awarded more than 257,000 degrees since its founding in 1831 as the state’s first public university.

University to present Students of Color Leadership Summit
Crimson White – Feb. 1
The University of Alabama will host the Students of Color Leadership Summit on Friday, Feb. 3. The summit will be a one-day event, open to students, faculty and staff and will take place in the Ferguson Center Ballroom.  The event will include educational sessions and dialogue discussing the topics of global leadership, ethics, values and self-care, according to UANews.  “I am excited to have partnered with the UA campus community to bring about such an amazing and collaborative event,” said Gretchen Moore, assistant director of the Center for Service and Leadership, which is a co-sponsor of this event, to UANews. “I know we will truly be meeting the needs expressed to us by students who brought the idea to us.”

How Howard University’s Republicans Plan to Coexist With Trump’s White Right
Spin – Feb. 1
Dr. Steven D. Mobley Jr., a 2005 Howard graduate who’s now an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Alabama, saw the on-campus presence of a College Republicans chapter as a symbol of Howard’s tradition of spurring open political discourse within the black community. Mobley remembered feeling “taken aback” by a Bush/Cheney sign posted on a dorm room during his undergraduate years. He eventually embraced the uncommon sight as part of the black experience, as well as a potential indication of progress: “Are they trying to accentuate change from the inside or just trying to be there as some dissenting voices within the party? Because that sounds like the Howard that I’ve gone to.”

State law enforcement agency wants budget more than doubled
Anniston Star – Feb. 1
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency needs $105 million from the state budget in 2018, its director says — more than the agency got in the past two budget years combined. “Actually working the roads, we’ve got under 250 troopers,” said Stan Stabler, director of ALEA, who spoke at budget hearings in Montgomery on Tuesday. . . . Stabler also cited rising numbers of traffic fatalities in his presentation. The University of Alabama’s Center for Advanced Public Safety earlier this month announced that traffic deaths statewide rose 25 percent in 2016, even though the number of wrecks rose only slightly. Asked if the deaths and the low trooper numbers were connected, Stabler said it’s possible.