TROPICAL DEPRESSION GORDON DUMPS RAIN ACROSS WEST ALABAMA
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Sept. 5
Tropical Depression Gordon is piling up huge rainfall totals in parts of the South, including more than 10 inches in the Florida Panhandle … “The worst side of a hurricane is always on the eastern side,” said Jason Senkbeil, an associate professor at the University of Alabama’s Department of Geography. “And what we call the northeast quadrant is the worst. And that’s going to be over Mobile County and the Pascagoula area.”
Traffic Management Center at UA to help with Gameday Traffic
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Sept. 5
Alabama’s home opener is now just three days away. The University of Alabama, ALDOT and the City of Tuscaloosa are doing more to monitor traffic coming to and leaving the city than ever before. The traffic management center housed at the University of Alabama compiles most traffic information happening in Tuscaloosa. People working here pass that information on to drivers headed to campus for football games.
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UA law professor comments on Roy Moore’s lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – Sept. 5
Jenny Carroll is a law professor at the University of Alabama, who tells me Moore has an uphill battle with this suit. She says the First Amendment protects satire and makes it hard for a public figure to sue for defamation.
Organization Takeover allows students to go ‘one step deeper’
Crimson White – Sept. 6
Organization Takeover is a two-night event where multiple student-run organizations on campus fill the Ferguson Student Center. Student organizations register to host one of three activities: a first meeting, an informal meet and greet, or a demonstration, workshop and/or performance. Along with the three activities offered, free food and door prizes will also be provided.
Miss America begins
WLTZ-NBC (Columbus, Georgia) – Sept. 5
Miss Alabama winner Callie Regan Walker will be there in support of environmental issues and combating climate change. Walker is a dancer and University of Alabama student who aspires to be on Broadway.
Dealing with death and grief
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – Sept. 5
But talking about death and grief in our own families can be much more difficult. One graduate student at the University of Alabama is struggling to find people to take part in a study on grief and whether religious faith protects mourners from falling into depression. Danielle McDuffie, who is in UA’s gero-psychology program, says she’s only been able to attract a couple of participants since early summer. She explains why she wants to focus on older African-Americans.
Allison Lamma of Sinking Spring awarded degree from the University of Alabama
Berks County (Pennsylvania) Courier – Sept. 6
Allison Catharine Lamma of Sinking Spring has received a master of science in human environmental sciences. UA awarded some 5,436 degrees during spring 2018 commencement May 4-6.
Artifacts Dug From Lake Basin Returning for Exhibit
Guntersville Advertiser-Gleam – Sept. 5
One of Alabama’s largest excavation projects was conducted in the Guntersville Basin in 1938-1939. Of the 75 sites discovered in the area, 26 were excavated by a team of TVA archaeologists and local laborers. Archaeologists worked quickly to excavate these sites before the waters rose behind the Guntersville Dam, impounding the lake and covering the sites forever. Many artifacts were recovered, identified and subsequently housed with the University of Alabama’s artifact repository located at Moundville, Alabama. Some of these will be on exhibit at the Guntersville Museum from September 13 through October 31. William B. Allen, archaeology collections manager, will curate the exhibit and will select a sampling of items recovered from Henry Island, McKee Island and Gunter’s Landing mound sites. Most of the artifacts date from around 300 A.D to the 18th century.
“Forever Plaid” provides challenges to young actors
Crimson White – Sept. 6
The 1950’s introduced important new aspects to music, including quartet groups. “Forever Plaid” features one group with an interesting twist. The show tells the story of a group of four young musicians who were killed in a car accident before their careers event started. Now in a state of purgatory, the group of four come together to perform one final concert in modern day before they are finally put to rest. Stacy Alley, the director and choreographer of the show, touched on what it was like to work with the four actors, Jacob Abbott, Colton Crowe, Alex Freeman and Parker Reeves. “I am working with four guys and this is not their first rodeo,” Alley said. “They are all theatre students of some kind and have studied the craft, as it were. So they come in and bring in their talents and personalities to the characters.”