UA In the News — July 15-17

UA In the News — July 15-17

Author James Grippando wins Harper Lee Prize
Fox 29 (West Palm Beach, Florida) – July 15
A best-selling suspense author from Florida is this year’s winner of an award named for the late Alabama novelist Harper Lee. The University of Alabama Law School and the American Bar Association Journal announced that James Grippando will receive the 2017 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for his book “Gone Again.” The prize recognizes fictional books that best depict the role of attorneys in bringing about change in society.
Tuscaloosa News – July 16
Daily Business Review – July 17
Associated Press – July 15
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – July 16
NBC 13 (Birmingham) – July 15 and 16
 
UA and Tuscaloosa combining efforts on medical calls
Crimson White – July 16
The Tuscaloosa City Council will be supporting a Paramedicine Program with The University of Alabama that will have nurse practitioners respond to 911 calls and go along with the city’s emergency services to the homes of those in need.
 
‘Enslaved people,’ not ‘slaves’ at Stagville State Historic Site
Durham Herald-Sun (North Carolina) – July 15
The words “enslaved people” have replaced “slaves” among many public historians. Public historians engage visitors outside of academic settings, such as at museums and historic plantation sites like Stagville State Historic Site in Durham County … In 2010, on the HNET internet forum, historian Jenny Shaw of the University of Alabama said she’d seen the phrase “enslaved people” in a revised version of “Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South” in which historian Deborah Gray White of Rutgers University argued for the term. She asked if it was a better term to use.

July 17, 2017
Call the Courier – July 17
Q: Why are Neo-Nazis now be referred to as the Alt-Right? A: “There is diversity of opinion among people that describe themselves as part of the alt-right,” George Hawley, a political scientist at the University of Alabama, told USA Today, “but most of the people who are energetically pushing the movement can be described as white nationalist.” While most people in the alt-right are not neo-Nazis, they are “well represented” in the group, Hawley says.

Slice of Life
Kentucky New Era – July 15
The Fisher House Foundation named Morgan Derden, LaFayette, a recipient of the Heroes’ Legacy Scholarships for Children of Fallen or Disable Service Members. The scholarship is made possible by corporate sponsorships, private donations and proceeds from the book “Of Thee I Sing. Letters to My Daughters” written by former President Barack Obama. Derden is the daughter of Marc Derden. She attends the University of Alabama where she majors in psychology/biology.

Alabama bicentennial workshop held in Dothan
Dothan Eagle – July 15
The fifth regional community workshop for Alabama’s bicentennial will be held on Thursday, July 27, at 9 a.m. at the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan … The workshops are co-sponsored by Alabama Mountain Lakes Tourism, Alabama League of Municipalities, the University of Alabama Center for Economic Development.
 
University of Alabama awards degrees to local students
Star-Democrat (Easton, Maryland) – July 14
The University of Alabama awarded approximately 5,000 degrees during spring commencement May 5 through 7. Degree recipients included: Harper Lee of Easton, with a Bachelor of Science in commerce and business administration; Grant Powley of Cambridge, with a Bachelor of Science in commerce and business administration; Rachel Starkey of Centrevile, with a Bachelor of Science in commerce and business administration; Hillary Marshall of Woolford, with a Master of Arts.
Mayville Daily Times (Tennessee) – July 17
Rockford (Illinois) Star – July 15

Class Acts for July 17
Dalton Daily Citizen (Georgia) – July 17
A total of 11,101 students enrolled during the 2017 spring semester at the University of Alabama were named to the Dean’s List with an academic record of 3.5 (or above) or the President’s List with an academic record of 4.0 (all A’s). Area students named to the list include: Sally S. Bell of Tunnel Hill, Dean’s List; Alysa Nicholle Evans of Dalton, Dean’s List; Charles Thomas Martin of Dalton, President’s List.

The Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
Assyrian International News Agency – July 14
Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs holds the Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies and is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa. An ordained rabbi, Professor Jacobs is a specialist on the Holocaust and Genocide, Biblical Studies, Jewish-Jewish Christian Relations, and is one of the foremost authorities on Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), who coined the term “genocide” and devoted his life to the enactment of an international law on the punishment and prevention of genocide.

COLLEGE NEWS: July 16
Tuscaloosa News – July 16
University of Alabama: Denson Ferrell of Tuscaloosa, a graduate of Sipsey Valley High School, received a $1,000 scholarship from the Alfa Foundation. Ferrell is a senior at the University of Alabama studying management information systems.