Secret campaign to use Russian-inspired tactics in 2017 Ala. election stirs anxiety for Democrats
Washington Post – Jan. 6
A secret effort to influence the 2017 Senate election in Alabama used tactics inspired by Russian disinformation teams, including the creation of fake accounts to deliver misleading messages on Facebook to hundreds of thousands of voters to help elect Democrat Doug Jones in the deeply red state, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post … “My initial gut says that the alleged disinformation campaign I’ve read about would not have been enough to affect this race. Roy Moore is so well known in Alabama that people had very settled opinions about whether they wanted them as their senator before the race even started,” said University of Alabama political scientist Joseph L. Smith.
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Student by day, pop star by night: Alabama’s Bailey Coats is real-life Hannah Montana
Yellowhammer News – Jan. 7
From the outside, Bailey Coats looks like your typical college student. A senior in marketing at the University of Alabama, the 21-year-old is on full academic scholarship and planning to graduate in May. But while other students might be waiting tables or playing video games in their spare time, you’ll often find Coats behind the microphone – recording the music she’s been writing since an early age.
Clear Path for Veterans to join veteran suicide prevention study
The Oneida Daily Dispatch (New York) – Jan. 4
Clear Path for Veterans in Chittenango is one of seven nonprofit organizations and city government groups that will exclusively participate in Operation Deep Dive, a community-based veteran suicide prevention study led by America’s Warrior Partnership and University of Alabama researchers with support from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation.
The Left Hand Knows
Slate – Jan. 4
On the last day of 2018, I was spending time with a friend visiting New York City from Florida. He told me he was thinking of heading to Times Square to watch the ball drop. “No way,” I told him, as any tri-state native would … In a sense, it’s not so hard to understand: A recent study conducted by the University of Alabama found that terror attacks committed by Muslims received 357 percent more press attention than terror attacks committed by non-Muslims.
What will be the secret of tostines? The need to invest in science
Jorge Quadras (Brazil) – Jan. 4
In everything in life we are led to make choices, whether as individuals or as society, and when faced with multiple choices, there is no way, we are forced by scarce resources, having to choose for one or some of them, not all of them … He is currently a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Temporary Professor at the Graduate Faculty of the University of Alabama (USA) and Associate Professor at the Institute of Exact and Natural Sciences of the Federal University of Pará (UFPa).
Local students make dean’s lists for fall 2018
The Herald News (Tennessee) – Jan. 6
Below is a list of Joliet area students who earned a spot on the dean’s list for summer 2018. We will continue run schools as space permits … New Lenox: Mitchell Gray, The University of Alabama.
Fort McCoy’s first CWOC class for winter 2018-19 season completes training with 39 students
DVIDS – Jan. 5
Just days before the first class for Fort McCoy’s Cold-Weather Operations Course (CWOC) started Dec. 3 for the 2018-19 winter season, about eight inches of snow fell at the installation, helping kick off the training season … Army ROTC Cadet Michael Boster with the University of Alabama said he was grateful to get more field experience.
UA law professor Joyce Vance comments on grand jury extension in Robert Mueller’s Russian investigation
MSNBC (National) – Jan. 5
Let’s go to Joyce Vance, professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and former MSNBC news contributor. Joyce, six weeks we got and most folks say we’re probably going to get more indictments.
Do Journalists Deserve Some Blame for America’s Mass Shootings?
Editor and Publisher (Fountain Valley, California) – Jan. 5
The reporter who won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing initially thought she was in Charleston, S.C. to chronicle the lives of nine church-goers who died in 2015 when a stranger with a Glock murdered them while they were praying … Adam Lankford, one of the nation’s leading academics who studies mass shootings, and a criminology and criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama, said he respects Ghansah and her skillful work, because in-depth investigations like this piece can help scholars find patterns and create solutions to the nation’s mass shooting epidemic.
Aviation Week Network Announces 20 Twenties Winners for 2019; Top Technology Students to be Honored March 14 at Laureates Awards Gala
KAKE (Wichita, Kansas) – Jan. 7
Aviation Week Network, in collaboration with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), today announced the winners of its awards program, “Tomorrow’s Technology Leaders: The 20 Twenties.” … Peyton Strickland, The University of Alabama.
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COLLEGE NEWS: January 6, 2019
Tuscaloosa News – Jan. 6
Elois Zeanah Scholarship: The Community Foundation of West Alabama announces 2018 winners of the Elois Zeanah scholarship. Madison Clary of Tuscaloosa and Jaleel Washington of Panola were awarded $1,000 each. Both are students at the University of Alabama.