Many places in America are essentially devoid of doctors
Kevin MD – June 15
I recently attended a conference in Savannah, Georgia sponsored by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research … Ouyang goes on to describe the University of Alabama’s Rural Health Leaders Pipeline, a program that recruits and trains medical students from rural communities to eventually become primary care physicians for those communities.
NFL Player Has Unpaid Summer Internship With State Judge
Above the Law – June 14
Earlier this week, we reported on an NFL player trying to run away from the law in order to continue playing football. Now, we’ve got news on an NFL player who is running into the arms of the law to work in an unpaid internship during his summer break. Which player could it be? Ha Ha Clinton-Dix of the Green Bay Packers recently started an internship with Judge Don Zuidmulder of the Brown County Circuit Court in Wisconsin. According to Jason Wilde of the Wisconsin State Journal, Clinton-Dix began the internship on June 2, and must log 180 hours in order to earn six credits for his criminal justice degree from the University of Alabama.
Reptile show and tell
Tuscaloosa News – June 15
Reaching into a sack, Sean Drummond pulled out a legless lizard at the Children’s Hands-On Museum on Thursday. Stretched 3 feet long, the lizard is named Lieutenant Dan after a character from the 1994 movie “Forrest Gump” who loses his legs in the Vietnam War. As Drummond held him, Lieutenant Dan begins to writhe. “He’s not a big fan of being held,” Drummond said. Drummond and other students from the University of Alabama went to the museum to show children about different types of reptiles and other animals that they study. During the visit, the students showed off a Burmese python, a box turtle, a speckled snake, a corn snake, a bearded dragon, a green tree frog, a tarantula and a hissing cockroach.
Foreign carmakers in Deep South face questions in Trump era
The Independent – June 16
Despite the recent “America First” scoldings of President Donald Trump, foreign automakers have helped transform the economy of the Deep South in the past three decades … Such is the influence of the foreign car manufacturers, that colleges in the South have adjusted their curricula to prepare students for jobs in this sector, including the University of Alabama, which trains engineers for the auto industry.
Germerica – June 16
The Nation’s Largest Protestant Denomination Just Condemned ‘Alt-Right Supremacy’ — but What Does It Mean?
Faith Wire – June 15
The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest protestant denomination, voted to reject racism as well as the “alt-right” political movement during the denomination’s annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday … Political scientist George Hawley of the University of Alabama has studied the movement, describing its members during an interview last year with the Washington Post as follows.
What Is Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome, the Disorder That Fooled a Community Into Thinking a Girl Was Terminally Ill?
Health.com – June 15
Since she was an infant, Gypsy Rose Blanchard had been diagnosed with a slew of diseases—including leukemia, muscular dystrophy, and epilepsy. At least that’s what her mother, Dee Dee, told friends and neighbors … Approximately 600 new cases are uncovered every year. “While only 9-10% of these published cases lead to death, 25% of the siblings of these victims had also been diagnosed with the same illnesses and have died,” Marc Feldman, PhD, a clinical professor of psychiatry and adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Alabama in, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, tells Health. “So we conclude these siblings were mostly cases of Munchausen by proxy that weren’t recognized.”
Meet Kyle Morris, college conservative and aspiring ‘truth journalist’
USA Today College – June 14
Kyle Morris started getting interested in politics during the 2008 U.S. election between John McCain and Barack Obama. Eight years later, he has just founded his website, Conservative Savage, of which he is the editor-in-chief. Morris, a telecommunications major at the University of Alabama, hails from Heflin, a small Alabama town near the Georgia state line. He has a thick, thick country accent, slow, syrupy and calming, befitting someone who grew up deep in red state country in the Bible Belt.
Training day
Tuscaloosa News – June 15
A Northport firefighter was “rescued” from an overturned flat-bottom boat in Two-Mile Creek on Wednesday afternoon during a flash-flood simulation. The simulation was organized by the Tuscaloosa County Emergency Management Agency as a method to teach college graduate students attending the Summer Institute for the National Water Center … Northport firefighters conduct a simulated water rescue for students studying at the National Water Center at the University of Alabama.
People for June 17, 2017
Concord Monitor (New Hampshire) – June 15
Andover: Rebekah Stearns was named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at St. Anselm’s College in Manchester. She is a senior international relations major … Nicholas Lulka earned a bachelor’s degree of science from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Pocono Record – June 15
Tyler Chaffee receives University of Alabama’s Applied Economic Development Honors Certificate
WLTZ-NBC (Columbus, Georgia) – June 15
Opelika’s Tyler Chaffee receiving The University of Alabama’s Applied Economic Development Honors Cetrificate. Tyler is the project manager for Opelika Economic Development. He’s one of 18 young professionals from all around the state participating in this program. He’s going to get his graduation certificate during the Economic Development Association of Alabama’s summer conference.