Research on snakes could help treat diabetes
Biloxi Sun Herald (Mississippi) – June 12
Could the answer to treating digestive ailments like diabetes and Crohn’s disease be slithering around in a laboratory at the University of Alabama? Stephen Secor, a professor of biological sciences at UA, hopes so. “This all kind of started as, ‘Hey let’s do something crazy,’ and come to find out, we found these amazing results,” Secor said.
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Business incubator to have new home
Tuscaloosa News – June 12
Tuscaloosa business, government and community leaders gathered Monday to break ground on a new home for The Edge, the city’s business incubator. The Edge helps start-ups and existing businesses in developing business skills and fine-tuning day-to-day operations. Now housed in in space donated by Regions Bank in downtown Tuscaloosa, The Edge has outgrown its facility on the way mentoring more than 300 businesses and serving as a work space for more than 75 emerging companies … The Edge is a partnership between the University of Alabama, the city of Tuscaloosa and the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama.
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Outreach Overdrive – Robotics Team Goes Extra Mile for Young Student
NASA – June 12
For the past eight years, the University of Alabama’s Astrobotics team has fared quite well in the various categories of NASA’s annual Robotic Mining Competition. While placing first in many areas such as team spirit, presentation, communications, mining, autonomy, and even first overall for the past two years, the outreach award has proven to be elusive for this competitive team. After not placing in the outreach category last year, the team redoubled its efforts this year. Four members of the 60-person team didn’t just meet the criteria by conducting meaningful outreach to engage others in STEM, they decided to go a bit further by changing one boy’s life. Justin is a 5-year-old at the University of Alabama’s Rise school, which works with children with physical disabilities. He was born with a rare condition that resulted in shortened limbs. Justin cannot walk. To get around, Justin must roll or be pushed in a stroller.
Lack of Sleep Adversely Affects the Appearance
Warta Kota (Indonesia) – June 13
Are you among those who often have trouble sleeping at night, even though they are tired of eight hours? … “Make sure the activities in the room just to rest and make out with her husband. Because, other activities in the room can manipulate the brain to be more difficult to rest, “said Kenneth Lichstein, PhD., Director of the Sleep Research Project at The University of Alabama, USA.
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Destin resident receives NASA recognition
The Destin Log (Florida) – June 12
The Alabama Space Grant Consortium has given seven University of Alabama engineering students $42,000 in graduate fellowship and undergraduate scholarship money. Megan Wood of Destin, a senior in mechanical engineering, received a scholarship. The graduate fellowships are funded jointly through the ASGC and the UA Office for Research and Economic Development. The UA office provided fellowship matching for a total of $37,000.
Closure of public health department the latest struggle for cash-starved Coosa County
Anniston Star – June 12
If you’re sick in Coosa County and you have health insurance, nurse practitioner Jamie Chappell may be your best bet. One of a handful of health care professionals in the rural county, Chappell sees patients at Rockford Family Practice in Rockford. She can’t accept Medicaid because there’s not a doctor at her office … The University of Alabama began working with the local Chamber of Commerce in September to develop a strategic plan to improve infrastructure and bring more small businesses and jobs to the county.
No, Americans Are Not Polarized By Ideology
The American Conservative – June 12
The conservative intelligentsia’s failed assault on Donald Trump during the GOP primaries was, in my view, the most interesting and perhaps the most important moment of the entire 2016 election cycle. Convinced that Trump threatened conservatism and the Republican Party, most of the notable figures of the conservative movement uniformly declared that Trump was not fit to be the Republican nominee. This struggle crested in an entire issue of National Review dedicated to denouncing Trump. (George Hawley (@georgehawleyUA) is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama.)
Interview with Melissa Jones, Georgetown University Libraries, on ATG: The Podcast
Against the Grain – June 12
In this week’s episode, we have an exciting travel award announcement from JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments. JoVE will award 6 librarians who are taking leadership roles to raise awareness about Scientific Research Reproducibility in their communities with (1) a travel grant to the MLA’17 Annual Meeting or the 2017 Charleston Conference and (2) the opportunity to showcase their initiative(s) with video … Michael A. Arthur has been Head, Resource Acquisition & Discovery at The University of Alabama since 2015.
A crowning achievement
Tuscaloosa News – June 12
Though a much-sought tiara, the actual Miss Alabama crown doesn’t weigh uneasily on the head of Jessica Procter. “You can almost forget it’s there,” said the Tuscaloosa native just days into her reign, having won the tile Saturday night in Birmingham. The 21-year-old University of Alabama student bonked it on things a few times, which didn’t feel great. “But you’ve got so much hairspray on, it doesn’t move.”
Miss Leeds Area Jessica Procter crowned Miss Alabama
St. Clair Aegis (Pell City) – June 12
Miss Leeds Area, Jessica Procter, was crowned Miss Alabama 2017 Saturday. Jessica Procter of Leeds, currently a student at the University of Alabama, was crowned Miss Alabama 2017 on Saturday night, June 10, at Samford University’s Wright Center. Proctor is also the winner of several preliminary competitions prior to Miss Alabama, including, as aforementioned, Miss Lead Area.
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