UA In the News – Feb. 15, 2018

UA In the News – Feb. 15, 2018

UA Capstone College of Nursing to Expand
WAFF-NBC (Huntsville) – Feb. 14
The University of Alabama’s nursing school is looking to expand not only because of the demand but the need for more space. The Dean of the program says they’ve only been in their building for 7 years and have already outgrown it. And the school leaders say demand continues to grow from area hospitals and clinics that are looking for -more- qualified graduates to hire.
WSFA-NBC (Montgomery) – Feb. 14
 
UA granted patent for SidelinER
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Feb. 14
First developed in 2015, the collapsible tent known as the sideliner has been seen on the sideline of crimson tide football games since 2016. Jeff Allen, Alabama’s director of Sports Medicine, and four students from the UA College of Engineering created the SidelinER in an attempt to give injured players more privacy on the sidelines.

Four Robots That Teach Your Kids To Code
Tribune 242 (Bahamas) – Feb. 14
You’ve seen apps and toys that promise to teach your child to code. Now enter the robots. At the CES electronics show in January, coding robots came out in force. One convention hall area was packed with everything from chip-embedded, alphabet-like coding blocks to turtle-like tanks that draw on command … But experts like Jeff Gray, a computer science professor at the University of Alabama and an adviser to the nonprofit coding education group Code.org, say kids can derive other benefits from coding robots and similar toys. They can, for instance, learn “persistence and grit” when the toys inevitably do something unintended, he says.
Los Alamos Monitor (New Mexico) – Feb. 14
 
U.S. has the most public mass shooters in the world, study shows
ABC 12 (San Antonio, Texas) – Feb. 14
On Wednesday, a mass shooting at a school north of Miami left numerous fatalities. The Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was not the first mass shooting or even school shooting of the year — not even close … Those statistics prompted the University of Alabama’s Adam Lankford to take an in-depth look at this epidemic. He studied mass shootings in 171 countries from the years 1966-2012 and found that the United States has the most public mass shooters and more than 240 million more guns than the second highest country, India.
CNN (National) – Anderson Cooper 360 – Feb. 14

Europe had school shootings too. Then they did something about it.
APSNY News (Turkey) – Feb. 14
Contrary to what you may sometimes hear, school shootings are not unique to the United States. Germany, for instance, went through a string of devastating attacks between 2002 and 2009. Between 1996 and 2008, major school shootings also occurred in Finland, Japan and Scotland, among other places … The most frequently cited reason for why mass shootings — not necessarily in schools — are more frequent in some countries than in others is the prevalence of handguns. In his famous study, “Public Mass Shooters and Firearms: A Cross-National Study of 171 Countries,” University of Alabama criminology professor Adam Lankford found a link between the number of guns and mass shootings that killed four or more people.
Washington Post – Feb. 14
 
18 mass shootings in 45 days in 2018: American gun culture that killed 12000 last year
India Today – Feb. 14
Following Florida school shootout by an ex-student who was crazy about guns, senior American journalist Jeff Greenfield wrote on Twitter: In the rest of the world, there have been 18 school shootings in the last twenty years. In the US, there have been 18 school shootings since January 1 – 45 days … According to another study by the University of Alabama, with five per cent of world’s population, the US holds 31 per cent of mass shooters. The World Health Organisation data shows that the US has one of the highest rates of death by firearm in the developed world.
 
UA Law School to offer free legal clinic for veterans
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Feb. 14
The Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center is teaming up with the University of Alabama’s Law School and Tuscaloosa County Bar Association to host a free legal clinic. Veterans can receive legal advice on topics that include divorce and child custody, finances, property disputes and domestic violence. The clinic is Friday, Feb. 16 from 10 A.M.

Crimson Clay brings ceramics fans together
Crimson White – Feb. 14
Crimson Clay, a student-run organization, strives to bring students together through the love of art and clay. Amy Smoot, the current president of Crimson Clay, believes the act of expressing one’s self through clay has become therapeutic for many of the organization’s members.

Student-run art history profile gains national following
Crimson White – Feb. 14
Unlike most schools, Taylor Murray’s high school didn’t offer art classes – not even a humanities course. But a lack of art courses at Murray’s Wicksburg, Alabama high school didn’t deter him from pursuing his passion for art history. He focused his attention to schooling himself on art history facts for competing in academic trivia tournaments. Upon arriving at UA orientation before his freshman year, Murray discovered that he needed to add a minor to his advertising major. Art history immediately jumped out at him from the list.

Manchester people in the news
Gloucester Times (Massachusetts) – Feb. 14
College graduation and dean’s list items should come directly from the school … Anthony Lange has been named to the 2017 fall semester dean’s list at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Sun This Week (Apple Valley, Minnesota) – Feb. 14
Jamestown Press (Rhode Island) – Feb. 14

Rethinking professional care giving
Bangladesh – Feb. 14
Subarta Trust is a non-profit and non-partisan civil organization led by its founder, Salina Akther and Professor Abdullah Abu Sayeed. The organization works with the vision of “Creating a new world for the challenged and ageing”, with the aim of ensuring economic security, physical wellbeing and healthcare to the distressed. Subarta, in partnership with the University of Alabama, has also developed professional caregiving training for destitute women.

Health Matters: Prenatal Care
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Feb. 14
Every pregnant woman cares a great deal about the health of her developing baby. The importance of prenatal care is something that not just the woman but the whole family needs to understand.