Honda Rolls Out $85 Million Expansion and One of the Year’s Best Family Cars
Business Alabama – Feb. 19
In March 2017, Honda Manufacturing of Alabama announced plans for a multi-phase project to expand its plant in Lincoln. Improvements involve expansions to two vehicle assembly operation lines and are intended to improve manufacturing flexibility, logistic efficiency and adaptability for future technology … The project brings HMA’s capital investments in Alabama to more than $750 million in the last seven years. In that time, Honda has expanded its Lincoln team by 450 employees. According to a study by the University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research, Honda’s in-state operations yielded a $6.8 billion economic impact in 2014.
University of Alabama PR students work to help 11 nonprofits through CreateAthon
Alabama News Center – Feb. 19
Amazing what can be accomplished in just one day. Over 24 hours this past weekend, the University of Alabama’s student-run communication firm, Capstone Agency, put its collective, creative juices on a crash course to support 11 Tuscaloosa and Birmingham nonprofits.
UADM raises money with Dance Marathon
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Feb. 19
The University of Alabama’s Dance Marathon organization raised more than 29 thousand dollars for the Children’s Miracle Network at the 7th annual UA Dance Marathon. More than 1,000 students filled the Ferguson center and danced for over 13 hours. Over the past year the organization has raised $340,000.
Tuscaloosa Native Wins UA Cason Award
APR – Feb. 19
An Alabama native and African-American author has won the University of Alabama’s annual non-fiction writing award for her work on women and black southern writers.
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – Feb. 19
UAPD Officer named Officer of the Year
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Feb. 19
The University of Alabama’s Brad Thomas has been named officer of the year! Thomas has been working in law enforcement for 14 years, including four and a half years with the SWAT Team and Tuscaloosa Police Department, as well as 6 years with UAPD. UAPD presented an award and medal, and the Exchange Club also gave Thomas a plaque for his courage in the line of duty.
What we need to talk about when we talk about mass shooters
Daily Dot – Feb. 19
A day after the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida, President Donald Trump blamed the incident that left 17 dead on shooter Nikolas Cruz’s mental health … “It’s indisputable that a lot of these shooters want fame and committing an attack like this is pretty much the only guaranteed way to become famous in the United States for someone who doesn’t have exceptional talent or abilities,” Adam Lankford, a criminology professor at the University of Alabama, told the Daily Dot.
Radical right is a threat to some individuals but will never hold political power
Washington Post – Feb. 19
A short time ago, most people ignored the furthest fringes of the radical right, secure in the knowledge that they were marginalized and sliding toward inevitable extinction. (George Hawley is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama. His books include “Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism” and “Making Sense of the Alt-Right.”)
Edwardsville Intelligencer (Illinois) – Feb. 19
LMT Online (Laredo, Texas) – Feb. 19
Jeff Sessions’ war on legal weed is spooking banks
Vice – Feb. 19
The Twin City Bank in Longview, Washington has been serving cannabis dispensaries and other marijuana-related business since recreational dispensaries opened there in 2014 … Julie Hill, a University of Alabama Law School professor who specializes in cannabis and banking regulation, said it’s still not clear how federal agencies will react.
College News
Greensburg Daily News (Indiana) – Feb. 20
Ivy Tech Dean’s List … Met Liter, Batesville – University of Alabama President’s List.
Chadds Ford Business Association – Feb. 20
Houston Chronicle (Texas) – Feb. 20
LMT Online (Laredo, Texas) – Feb. 19
My San Antonio – Feb. 19
What your millennial employees want you to know
PR Daily – Feb. 20
They do more than lurk in the shadows on their iPhones. Millennials now make up the largest portion of the workforce— yet many internal communicators are still scratching their heads trying to engage and retain them. They’re not as complicated as you may believe. Here’s what NASA, Lockheed Martin and the University of Alabama learned from their millennial employees.
Red Cross encourages blood donations
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Feb. 19
Next month is Red Cross month. The organization is encouraging donors to join in its life-saving mission by donating blood for patients at more than 2,000 hospitals nationwide. So, if you’re interested, you have several upcoming blood donations opportunities here in the Tuscaloosa area. March 6 from 12 to 5 p.m. at Burke Hall, March 7 from 10:30 – 3:30 P.M. at the University of Alabama.
Students encouraged to pay attention to the weather
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Feb. 19
Alabama is no stranger to severe weather, and that’s why students at the university have to pay close attention to weather related news sometimes the University of Alabama administration will send out an email to all students and staff members, forewarning them to be wary of a Tornado watch, but less than an hour later they might send another email telling them just the opposite.