Rise Center students rehearsing for graduation
Tuscaloosa News – July 25
Students at the Rise Center gathered Tuesday to rehearse for graduation. The children in the program will be moving to elementary schools throughout the city and county to begin kindergarten. The center, a part of the University of Alabama’s College of Human Environmental Sciences, serves around 100 children with disabilities and their typically developing peers, from ages 8 weeks to 5 years old.
RISE Center holds graduation
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – July 24
Seventeen students are celebrating graduation from the University of Alabama’s Rise Center. It’s a nationally recognized program serves young children with and without disabilities. Many of them will start elementary school next year. Parents of the graduates say the program has benefited not only their children but the entire family.
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – July 24
Virtual reality may help students experience life with dementia first hand
Medicine News Line – July 25
Virtual reality technology gives high school students greater insight into what it’s like to be Alfred — a 74-year-old African American man with suspected mild cognitive impairment (MCI), plus age-related vision and hearing loss, or Beatriz, a middle-aged Latina, as she progresses through the continuum of Alzheimer’s disease … Daniel C. Potts, MD, FAAN, of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, is a neurologist who created the Bringing Art to Life Program after his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Potts found his father had a talent for watercolor painting during his art therapy at an adult day care center.
VR Focus – July 24
TechRistic – July 25
Web India 123 – July 25
Millennials and Boomers split: Who was the best president?
Al.com – July 24
Millennials overwhelmingly love Obama. Baby Boomers adore Ronald Reagan. Depending on what a person sees as the job of the president, the two presidents may not be as different as we believe … It’s about inspiration, said Stephen Borelli, political science expert at the University of Alabama. He said despite what is actually accomplished in a president’s term, the support from voters originates with the inspirational rhetoric and vision for what could and usually doesn’t get accomplished.
Alabama Gold Assayed
Business Alabama – July 24
It’s the busy time of the year for the Alabama Gold Camp in Cragford, just southeast of Lineville, on the Clay-Randolph county line … Hog Mountain, according to Saunders, was the site of Alabama’s largest gold producing mine ever — “which really wasn’t that big.” Both Saunders and Harold Stowell, professor of geology at the University of Alabama, have visited the Hog Mountain operation and led geology student field trips to the site.
‘Unite the Right’ anniversary: White nationalists planning to rally in D.C.
USA Today – July 24
When hundreds of neo-Nazis and white supremacists rallied a year ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, the demonstration turned into a riot that left one woman dead and shocked the nation … “I think the hope was that they would step away from their computers and enter into real politics,” said George Hawley, a University of Alabama professor who has written a book about the alt-right. “And that was not the result.”
Names in the News
Times Herald (Michigan) – July 24
Zachary Hasenbusch of Port Sanilac has earned a bachelor of science degree in metallurgical engineering, and Jacob Nutter of Algonac has earned a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Alabama.
Los Altos Town Crier (California) – July 24
Xenia (Ohio) Gazette – July 24
Wright, Wilson named UA alumni officials
Mountain Eagle (Jasper) – July 24
Haig Wright II has been named the 2018-19 president-elect of the University of Alabama National Alumni Association, while Renae Mitchell Wilson has been named the District 3 vice president for the association. The appointments were listed in the summer edition of the association’s Alabama Alumni Association.
How many have you seen? Rarest license plates in Alabama
AL.com – July 24
It’s not a surprise that the most popular specialty license plates in Alabama belong to the University of Alabama (106,287 as of 2017) and Auburn University (70,257). But what about the opposite end of the spectrum? What are the rarest specialty plates?
Pineville graduate named University of Alabama fellow
Alexandria (Louisiana) Town Talk – July 24
A recent Pineville High School graduate is one of 27 incoming freshmen in The University of Alabama Honors College to be selected for the University Fellows Experience. Lauren Wallace of Pineville was selected for the leadership and service program after a series of interviews, according to the university.
Tuscaloosa fills up July with multiple events
Crimson White – July 25
MothFest, July 28: Hosted by The University of Alabama Museums and Alabama Museum of Natural History, MothFest showcases the diversity of moths that live in the surrounding area. Local Roots, La Mexicana and Grampy’s food trucks will be on site. The presentation is located at 1901 Jack Warner Parkway and the event will run from 7-11 p.m.