CNN Reporter and UA graduate banned from covering White House
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – July 26
A University of Alabama journalism professor is defending a Bama graduate who happens to be the CNN reporter who was banned from a media event at the White House yesterday for yelling questions to President Trump. Professor Chris Roberts says Kaitlin Collins was doing her job to ask the President questions about his former attorney Michael Cohen and Vladimir Putin. Collins, who is an alumnae of the University, was the poll reporter for the event. That means no other reporters were allowed in the room, and any answers the President gave to her questions would be shared by others in the media
Transportation museum hosts MothFest on Saturday
Tuscaloosa News – July 26
People of all ages are invited to MothFest, an event that will showcase the diversity of the nocturnal insects found in the Tuscaloosa area. MothFest, organized by the Alabama Museum of Natural History, will be held from 7-11 p.m. Saturday at the Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, 1901 Jack Warner Parkway. Admission is free. Special light and bait stations will be set up to attract moths. The museum will house an an exhibit of insect photography and there will be a variety of activities. Food and drinks will be for sale from five local food trucks: Local Roots, La Mexicana, Gampy’s, Cheese Louise and Local Churn Creamery. For more information, email jpfriel@ua.edu, call 348-2136 or go online at www.almnh.ua.edu.
Annual summit talks future of Tuscaloosa transportation
Tuscaloosa News – July 26
Alex Hainen, an assistant professor in UA’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, also works in conjunction with ALDOT in the Traffic Management Center on the UA campus. He presented a series of studies that are ongoing to optimize traffic signal flow throughout the Tuscaloosa and Northport area using data compiled by the DSRC radio network. Through data collection methods first begun in 2009, Hainen said applying different mathmatical algorithms to the signals has increased the amount of time drivers encounter traffic signals with a green light from Kauloosa Avenue to University Boulevard. “Our goal is to get them arriving on green, get them through the intersection and keep on going,” Hainen said.
Buford awarded degree from UA
Edmund (Oklahoma) Sun – July 26
Valdrie L. Buford, Jr. of Edmond, has graduated from The University of Alabama. Buford, Jr. earned a bachelor of sciene in Aerospace Engineering. University of Alabama awarded some 5,436 degrees during spring 2018 commencement May 4-6.
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Local student on Alabama’s welcome team
Harrisburg (Illinois) Register – July 26
University of Alabama student Cameron Dobbs of Red Bud is serving as an Avanti team member for the summer 2018 orientation session. Nearly 60 students are serving on the UA Avanti team — a group that seeks to welcome new students during the Bama Bound orientation process.
What Five Entomologists Learned at the March for Science Summit
Entomology Today – July 27
Meaghan Pimsler, Ph.D., post doctoral research fellow, molecular ecology, University of Alabama; ESA Science Policy Fellows Class of 2017 As is common with ESA members, I do a lot of outreach events. Most are with K-12 groups, and I had been relying on the infrastructure of my home institution to find outreach and mentoring opportunities. As a result of the messages I heard at the SIGNS Summit, I am expanding my radius to look for students at nearby smaller liberal arts institutions who may have just as much enthusiasm and interest but fewer opportunities at their home schools.
UA Rise Center holds conference
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – July 26
Dozens of educators who work with children who have special needs are gathering in Tuscaloosa. Staff from the UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA’S rise center are sharing ideas with similar programs from around the country. UA’s rise center helps children from 8 weeks to 5 years old. They work on pairing kids with physical or mental developmental problems with kids of the same age who don’t have them.
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – July 26
UA holds forensic science camp
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – July 26
The UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA is helping students learn all about forensic science this week. Specialists from the university as well as the Tuscaloosa police department were on-hand at the forensic science summer camp, showing students that there’s so much more to forensics than what you see on “Law and Order” or “CSI”.