Adapted Athletics Goundbreaking
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – Feb. 23
The University of Alabama will break ground on a new multi-million dollar athletics facility today.
New AL AG speaks at UA about cyber crime
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – Feb. 22
Even the most careful criminal can leave behind clues on his computer. That’s why attorney General Steve Marshall came to the University of Alabama to support law enforcement learning better ways to find information that could even be hidden on your cell phone. “They spoke exactly to what that little girl said and we put that guy in jail,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall told members of the Joint Electronic Crimes Task Force.
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – Feb. 22
WVUA 23 (Tuscaloosa) – Feb. 22
WAFF-NBC (Huntsville) – Feb. 22
NBC 13 (Birmingham) – Feb. 22
Alan Blum on Why Physicians Need to Be More Active and Creative in the Clinic, Classroom, and Community in Smoking Prevention and Cessation
Cancer Network – Jan. 15
You are known worldwide as an expert on, and public advocate against, the use and promotion of tobacco products. How did you first become interested in this widespread health issue? My father, a family doctor in Rockaway Beach, New York, was my inspiration. He recognized the devastating impact of smoking when he himself—a physician in his 40s who had smoked two packs of Chesterfield cigarettes a day since medical school—suffered a heart attack. Even though he was athletic and physically active, he knew that smoking had had a devastating impact on his life.
Before the storm- are you ready?
Rocket City Now – Feb. 22
When a tornado warning is issued for your area, you may only have a few minutes to get to safety. Dr. Laura Myers, a scientist at the University of Alabama is passionate about understanding how the public interprets weather information.
UA to hold screening of “Killer of Sheep”
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – Feb. 22
As we mark Black History Month, the theme at The University of Alabama is “Crisis in Black Education.” The University’s Black History Month’s events tackles challenges in education from preschool to graduate poverty and more. A screening of a movie called “Killer of Sheep: Black Families in Poverty,” is scheduled for next Monday. An assistant professor of English, Lamar Wilson, says the film can challenge us to consider what poverty has done to tear African American families apart. It also celebrates the way that the family depicted fights to stay together through trying times. He’s hoping students can learn through the life of an everyday man that isn’t always shown in mass media.
Facebook founder visits with Coach Saban
WALA-Fox (Mobile) – Feb. 22
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is continuing his tour of the state of Alabama. Zuckerberg was in Tuscaloosa yesterday. The billionaire met with University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban before eating lunch with some of the football players.
KRLD-AM (Dallas, Texas) (Audio not available) – Feb. 22
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – Feb. 22
WYDE-FM (Birmingham) (Audio not available) – Feb. 22
Service failures will be perceived more negatively if they impact a group rather than individuals: research
Community Central – Feb. 22
A study by a team at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, has found that customers perceive the same service problem very differently, depending on whether they are affected as individuals or in a group … The study’s authors, Arne Albrecht, Prof. Gianfranco Walsh and Prof. Sharon Beatty of the University of Alabama (USA), were initially surprised by this result.
The “Girls” Habit
Los Angeles Review of Books – Feb. 21
ALMOST FIVE YEARS AGO, I began watching Girls. With the exception of maybe two or three episodes across six seasons, I’ve consistently watched the show since it premiered. (Kristen Warner is associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama.)
REACHing students: A look at the support offered by Alabama REACH
Crimson White – Feb. 22
On the day after Christmas of her senior year of high school, Dominique Anderson was exiled from her family. Her parents found out that she was lesbian and cut her off, forcing her to leave home, finish high school on her own, put herself through college, and causing her grandparents to take on a parent role and provide kinship care. But during her freshman year at The University of Alabama she was introduced to a new kind of family: she was introduced to Alabama REACH. Alabama REACH is a program in the academic affairs division of The University of Alabama that aims to empower and support students who are current and former foster youth, orphans, emancipated minors, unaccompanied minors, those in kinship care, wards of the state and homeless youth.
ASCE to Update CE Body of Knowledge; Member Input Sought
ASCE News – Feb. 22
Career development, it is said, often isn’t about what you know but who you know. But in civil engineering, what you know matters. “We’re living in times that are changing at an accelerated rate,” said committee chair Ken Fridley, Ph.D., F.ASCE, a senior associate dean at the University of Alabama.
Resilience, optimism focuses of campus lecture
Crimson White – Feb. 23
Because every person is faced with varying degrees of adversity in life, Margaret A. Purcell, director of Resiliency and Student Success Partnerships in the Capstone Center Student for Success, presented an interactive lecture entitled, “Resilience: The Ability to Bounce Back from Difficulties” on Wednesday.
Students honored for academic achievements
Jamestown Press (Rhode Island) – Feb. 22
These Jamestown residents were honored academically during the 2016-17 academic year … Sophomore Milo DiGasper was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Students must post a minimum 3.5 GPA to be eligible.
Aiken Standard (South Carolina) – Feb. 22
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Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle Press – Feb. 23
South Strand News (South Carolina) – Feb. 23
Edge business incubator to hold first demo day Friday
Al.com – Feb. 22
Some of west Alabama’s entrepreneurs will get a chance to pitch their ideas Friday. The Edge incubator will host its first Demo Day at the Bryant Conference Center … The Edge is a partnership between the University of Alabama, the City of Tuscaloosa and the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama. It is aimed at aiding emerging businesses through sharing management, financial and technical information.
Media Planning Board names Elizabeth Elkin next editor-in-chief
Crimson White – Feb. 22
On Feb. 22, the Media Planning Board announced Elizabeth Elkin as the editor-in-chief of The Crimson White for the 2017-2018 school year. Elkin, a junior majoring in journalism, said this position has been one she’s been working towards for a while.
Feb. 23-24: Manual Digital, Robert C. Merton, Tara Velarde, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Tennyson, Hank Lazer, Andrew Maxwell, BadBadNotGood, Laugh for Lives Comedy Show
San Francisco Examiner – Feb. 22
THURSDAY, FEB. 23, Manual Digital: The show, which includes works by eight national artists who have embraced digital tools in their primarily analog work, opens with a reception. [6 to 8 p.m., Space 151 gallery, 151 Potrero Ave., second floor, S.F.] … Hank Lazer and Andrew Maxwell: Lazer, professor emeritus at University of Alabama, and Maxwell, a publisher and DJ, read their poetry. [7 p.m., Poetry Center, Humanities Building, San Francisco State, 1600 Holloway Ave., S.F.]