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UA In the News — April 16

UA & UWA begin study on microgreens with USDA grant
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 15
If you haven’t heard of them yet, micro-veggies are all the rage. Now, the University of Alabama and the University of West Alabama are teaming up to study how to these tiny greens last longer on the shelf.
 
UA Team to Examine Untreated Sewage Issue
Alabama Public Radio – April 15
How much untreated sewage gets dumped in Alabama’s Black Belt? That’s the question a team of students and professors at the University of Alabama is trying to determine.
U.S. News – April 15
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Washington Times – April 15
Seattle Post Intelligencer – April 15
Beaumont Enterprise (Texas) – April 15
Bristol Herald Courier (Virginia) – April 15
WWLP 22 (Chicopee, Massachusetts) – April 15
West Plains Daily Quill (New York) – April 15
Municipal Water and Sewer Magazine – April 15
 
UA receives $8M grant to improve transportation project
Crimson White – April 16
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment (ATCMTD) grants valued at $53.2 million to several projects on April 1.
Phone Week – April 16

UA Collegiate Recovery hosts food addiction support group
Crimson White – April 16
The University of Alabama Collegiate Recovery and Intervention Services will host its second weekly 12-step Food Addicts Anonymous support meetings on Wednesday, April 17.

Thin Trends with ‘Negative Calorie’ Food, What Do You Mean?
Health Detik (Indonesia) – April 15
The latest trend implies that someone can burn calories in a fun way, which is eating! With ‘negative calorie’ food, the body does not get fatter but actually gets thinner … “Regardless of the number of calories in food, you will always be able to get something from it,” said Stephen Secor, professor of biology at the University of Alabama, quoted from LiveScience.
Live Science – April 15

Why Green Pledges Will Not Create the Natural Forests We Need
360 Yale – April 16
Experts agree: Reforesting our planet is one of the great ecological challenges of the 21st century. It is essential to meeting climate targets, the only route to heading off the extinction crisis, and almost certainly the best way of maintaining the planet’s rainfall. It could also boost the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of inhabitants of former forest lands … Geographer David Shankman, professor emeritus at the University of Alabama and a long-time observer of China’s reforestation programs, told Yale Environment 360: “I am not confident of long-term success.”

Avoiding scams on Tax Day
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 15
Dr. Matthew Hudnall teaches management information systems to business school students at the University of AlabamaHe says it’s amazing how clever scammers have gotten with their tactics. “Quite honestly, they’ve gotten really good with their scamming techniques.”

Islamophobia: The plague of the West
The Miami Hurricane – April 16
The Christchurch, New Zealand gunmanwhose name I will not mention was a white male terrorist. He was a white supremacist, and his actions were not a result of bullying or mental health. His actions were due to an illness that plagues the West: Islamophobia … According to research conducted by the University of Alabama based on data from the Global Terrorism Database, terror attacks by Muslims receive 357 percent more press attention than those committed by non-Muslims.

11th Annual New Orleans Entrepreneur Week Awards $300,000 to Entrepreneurs, Attracts 3,500 Attendees
Biz New Orleans – April 15
More than 3,500 people from 23 states and three countries attended programming during the 11th annual New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW) presented by JPMorgan Chase & Co. … NOEW 2019 Pitch Competition Winners & Highlights Include: RentCheck and the University of Alabama won the “IDEAcorps MBA Consulting Challenge” hosted by Loyola University New Orleans.

The only palpable evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model
Physics World – April 15
“Neutrino mass is the only palpable evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model,” which is why André de Gouvêa is a devoted fan of the neutrino … Neutrinos make great probes of the cosmos, as Marcos Santander of the University of Alabama pointed out here at the April Meeting. One reason is that unlike electromagnetic radiation and charged particles, neutrinos are not deflected by the magnetic fields that permeate the universe — and therefore they point straight back to their source.

Tuscaloosa County working with faith-based organizations to help community
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 15
Law enforcement can’t stop crimes from happening alone. That’s why a summit between Tuscaloosa area churches and social service providers is planned for next week … Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ron Abernathy, Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steve Anderson and two University of Alabama social work students joined Webb to promote a Faith-Based Community Resources Summit.

UA French professor responds to fire at Notre Dame
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 15
Carmen Myers, faculty member here at the University of Alabama, says she was just there a year and a half ago and today she’s in disbelief. She says it never occurred to her the cathedral would never be there tomorrow. She says the Cathedral of Notre Dame not only represents Paris, but France as well. She says it embodies the history and culture of that country.

Renderings of New Julia S. Tutwiler Residence Hall
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – April 15
New renderings of Julia Tutwiler Hall on the University of Alabama’s campus. The board of trustees approved the new $150 million building a few years ago. Once complete, it will house around 1500 students.

Accolades
Rockford (Illinois) Star – April 15
Graduations: University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa: Cody Coogan and David Mecklenburg of Rockford, Brittany Baird of Caledonia and Jessica Fall of Machesney Park.