Hartselle Robotics wins award at Alabama competition
Hartselle Enquirer – April 20
On Saturday, students from Hartselle Computer Science classes participated in the 2017 University of Alabama Robotics competition in Tuscaloosa. Sixty teams comprised of elementary, middle school, and high school students competed in the autonomous programming event.
How to teach an Alabama piano masterclass from … New York
Slipped Disc – April 20
On April 26, Dr. Edisher Sivitski will conduct a live piano master class with University of Alabama students assembled in Tuscaloosa—from New York City, more than 1,000 miles away. As Dr. Savitski performs on a Yamaha DCFX Disklavier PRO concert grand piano in New York City, a similarly equipped instrument on stage at the school’s Moody Concert Hall will recreate, in real time, his exact performance – the piano’s keys and pedals moving up and down to capture the subtlest nuance. At the same time, students will be able to watch Dr. Savitski’s live performance on a big screen TV, with the video perfectly in sync with the piano on stage.
Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery
FiveThirtyEight – April 21
There’s a map, made more than 150 years ago using 1860 census data, that pops up periodically on the internet. On two yellowed, taped-together sheets of paper, the counties of the Southern U.S. are shaded to reflect the percentage of inhabitants who were enslaved at the time. Bolivar County, Mississippi, is nearly black on the map, with 86.7 printed on it. Greene County, Alabama: 76.5. Burke, Georgia: 70.6. The map is one of the first attempts to translate U.S. census data into cartographic form and is one of several maps of the era that tried to make sense of the deep divisions between North and South, slave states and free.1 . . . The Rev. Christopher Spencer is tall and thickly built with a bald head and narrow-rimmed glasses. His presence is large, but never more so than when he’s swaying in church robes, preaching on a Sunday morning. His church, St. Matthew Watson Missionary Baptist, is tucked away in a clearing in the woods of Greene County, just off a country stretch of U.S. Highway 43 and about 30 miles from where he grew up. The church, which recently celebrated its centennial, still has about 130 members despite the shrinking of the area’s population. Preaching is Spencer’s passion, but he also works as a director of community development at the University of Alabama, helping recruit people for studies and pushing for jobs and opportunities in the Black Belt
Local schools excel and earn recognition: Whit & Whimsey
Cleveland.com – April 21
What fantastic news for TWO Brunswick schools. The Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators announced that Walter Kidder Elementary School in the Brunswick City School District has been selected as a 2017 Hall of Fame School … Madison Anzelc of Medina, was inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society, the national leadership honor society for college students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni. She was also was inducted into the Mortar Board honor society during the Tapping on the Mound ceremony April 7 at The University of Alabama.
Open Mic Discussion on Civil Rights
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 20
A group of New Yorkers on a Civil Rights Tour of the South are making their last stop in Tuscaloosa. The University of Alabama hosted an open mic for 40 people visiting from New York. They shared poems and art inspired by the history of race in the South.
UA students take part in class project to help feral cats
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 19
A great class project can live outside of the classroom, and that’s what University of Alabama students hope they can do with their Civic Engagement Class. They want to turn their class project into real protection for about 6,000 feral cats.
Joyce White Vance to join UA School of Law
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 20
Former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, Joyce Vance, has landed a new role. In August, Vance will join the University of Alabama School of Law as a distinguished visiting lecturer in law.
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – April 19
Organ Donation Hits Close To Home – A Thankful Mother’s Story
Public Now – April 20
In December 2014, Renita Hylton, one of Emory Healthcare’s own, had to quickly familiarize herself with the subject of organ donation. She received the devastating news that her 17-year-old son, D’Sean Bray, was diagnosed with Dilated Cardiomyopathy that would require a lifesaving heart transplant … D’Sean is now attending the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and speaks about the importance of organ donation at community outreach events for Egleston, the LifeLink Foundation, and his college.
Health Matters: Low Back Pain
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 19
Most of us, at some points in our lives, are going to have an episode of that miserable low back pain. Most of the time you can take of it yourself at home with some over-the-counter medications, some heat and so-forth. But we all need to be aware, of what we call in medicine, red flags.
Filta Sponsors Earth Day Event with Bama Dining at the University of Alabama
Military Technology – April 21
Saturday, April 22, 2017, is the 47th annual Earth Day—a national program that aims to educate the community on the environmental and economic benefits of waste reduction and recycling.
Clothing design students hold Tee Time Fashion Show
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 19
It’s Tee Time. University of Alabama students in the College of Human Environmental Sciences held their annual fashion show Wednesday afternoon. All of the students created new clothing using repurposed materials.
These healthy golf course snacks will improve your focus
Fox Sports – April 20
With menus heavy on burgers and booze, golf courses don’t generally have your best nutritional interests in mind. If you’re serious about going low, take control of what you eat, both before and during your round. This tasty plan, developed by University of Alabama dietitian Amy Bragg, is your very own snack-attack on sluggish performance. You’ll lose strokes—and perhaps a few pounds, too.
Former UA football player rides in Indy Car
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 20
The Honda Indy Grand Prix is Sunday. Two-time Honda Indy Grand Prix Champ Ryan Hunter-Reay was at The University of Alabama’s Ferguson Center showing off one of those two seater Indy cars to former Tide football start Dalvin Tomlinson.
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 20
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – April 20
Country music brand manager speaks with students
Crimson White – April 20
Students at The University of Alabama were given a chance this Wednesday to meet on-air personality and digital director Nada Taha, and hear her discuss branding and the entertainment industry from the perspective of a self-made prodigy. Nada, as she prefers to be referred to in public media, acts as an on-air personality for the Nashville country music iHeart Radio show, The Bobby Bones Show. She is described as a pizza-loving, cat-cuddling, social media savant, and at the age of 27, is the youngest of five members of the show, filling the role of the tech-savvy millennial.
Rise Golf Tournament held at Northriver Yacht Club
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 20
The Rise Tournament of Champions teed off today at Northriver Yacht Club. The annual golf tournament benefits The University of Alabama’s Rise Center; a school and social program that doesn’t charge tuition for children with special needs.
PREVIEW: Interracial Intimacies Symposium
Crimson White – April 21
Interracial intimacies and limitations in various settings such as the classroom, religious spaces, legal systems or domestic spheres, is a topic of the symposium to be hosted at the University this weekend. Throughout the two-day event, presenters hope to answer an abundance of questions, such as: If people across races and cultures lived, ate, slept and traveled together, what would be the implications for cultural understanding? What was interracial intimacy and how might expressions of intimate contact have been guided by race, gender and class?
Canady receives Fulbright Award
Shelbyville (Tennessee) Times-Gazette – April 21
University of Alabama student Benjamin “Benjie” Canady of Bell Buckle has received a Fulbright Award for 2017-18. For the 2017-2018 competition period, 14 University of Alabama students have been selected for Fulbright Awards. This year’s total sets a record number of awardees for UA in the prestigious international exchange program.
Schafer wins Alabama ‘Tide Pride’ award
Shore News Today (New Jersey) – April 21
University of Alabama freshman Arielle Schafer, an Absegami High School graduate, won a Row Tide Pride Award for her first-year contributions to the Crimson Tide women’s crew team. The award, as voted on by the team representing Crimson Tide spirit and UA Rowing, was presented to both Schafer and fellow freshman Hunter James.