IndyCar Series champ James Hinchcliffe test drives Crimson Racing team’s new race car
Al.com – April 19
A professional race car driver gave University of Alabama students a huge boost this week, test-driving their newly built Formula car in front of a crowd on campus. UA’s Formula SAE team, Honda Performance Development and STEAM Sports Group recently teamed to educate children about the importance of science, technology, engineering, arts and math, or STEAM, in the motorsports and automotive industry.
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 19
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U.S. Supreme Court ruling could help improve sales tax revenue in Alabama
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 18
University of Alabama business professor Amanda Ross broke down what a favorable ruling in this case would mean for us here in Alabama. Like in any case there are winners and losers.
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – April 18
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 18
MLK: a towering figure in 20th century American life
Hot Press – April 18
Who amongst us has not felt goosebumps listening to Martin Luther King’s electrifying “I have a dream” speech? That speech was delivered to a quarter-of-a-million people at the end of the March to Washington on August 28 1963 … The US has 4.4% of the world’s population but 42% of its guns, and over 30% of the world’s mass shooters are American, according to a study by researchers in the University of Alabama.
Health Matters: Sodium in our diets
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 18
We know that as Americans we eat way too much salt. And, there’s lots of adverse effects that come from that particularly as regards to our blood pressure and our risk of developing heart disease.
Alabaster mom on mission to stiffen Alabama’s texting and driving law
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 18
Despite a 2012 ban on texting and driving, distracted driving accidents continue to pile up. Now a mother in Alabaster whose daughter was killed recently in a distracted driving accident is taking her fight to Montgomery to try and change laws … The University of Alabama’s Center for Advanced Public Safety tracks how many crashes were caused by distracted driving. In 2009, there were 469 accidents. By 2016, that number jumped to over 1,500. State statistics keepers warn these numbers aren’t telling us how big the problem really is and that’s why Lunsford and Senator McClendon says something needs to be done to get a handle on the growing problem.
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No Gender Pay Gap for CEOs at Large U.S. Corporations: University Research
Carrier Management – April 18
The popular press regularly publishes articles about gender pay gap in the workforce, and it has recently started talking of a “female premium” in CEO compensation, according to the research. This is problematic because it may create a perception that women CEOs are paid much more than their male counterparts … Source: University of Alabama.
Vaping is becoming much more popular
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 18
Household name cigarette companies have taken advantage of the vaping trend to continue bringing in money. People might not realize that some of these devices contain a USB that collects data on users about their smoking habits.
Statue of ‘father of gynecology,’ who experimented on enslaved women, removed from Central Park
Salt Lake Tribune – April 18
The first patient to endure James Marion Sims’ experimental surgery in 1845 was named Lucy. Lucy, an enslaved black woman in Alabama, remained on her hands and knees on top of a table for more than an hour as Sims sought to repair a hole between her bladder and vagina without giving her any anesthesia, which was not widely used then … “Dr. Sims, ‘the father of gynaecology,’ was the first doctor to perfect a successful technique for the cure of vesico-vaginal fistula,” a social work professor at the University of Alabama wrote in one 1993 paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics, “yet despite his accolades, in his quest for fame and recognition, he manipulated the social institution of slavery to perform human experimentations, which by any standard is unacceptable.”
Innovations for investigating the plant tree of life
EurekAlert – April 19
Advances in genome sequencing have resulted in vast amounts of genetic information being produced for ever-increasing numbers of species, but we are still just scratching the surface … Newly developed phylogenetic approaches often allow these challenges to be tackled in unique ways. Co-editor Michael McKain, Assistant Professor at The University of Alabama and curator of the University of Alabama Herbarium, enthused about a paper by Tovar et al.
Bright Surf – April 19