UA opens new Student Community Engagement Center
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 18
The University of Alabama Student Community Engagement Center was unveiled Thursday afternoon. The 4,000 square foot center is inside Capital Hall. It will hold 14 student organizations from six of the colleges at UA. The new space has individual offices, an open area for students to meet and a conference room for the student organizations to meet with local community partners.
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 18
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UA helps communities with the Cahaba Blueway Project (live interview)
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – April 18
I’m here with Brian Rushing from the University of Alabama. We’re going to learn all about the Cahaba Blueway.
Why maps still matter: Working out a big severe weather worry
Al.com – April 19
Veteran Alabama TV meteorologist James Spann touched on a topic — and a nerve — during severe weather coverage over the weekend in Alabama … One of the people taking an in-depth look at the problem — and everyone agrees it’s a problem — is Dr. Laura Myers, the director of the Center for Advanced Public Safety at the University of Alabama and a research scientist.
UA Law Professor Joyce Vance comments on release of Mueller Report (live interview)
MSNBC – April 18
Joyce Vance is watching along with us, as she has for these prior 22 months, former U.S. Attorney, these days a professor at the University of Alabama law school. Joyce, we have yet to get you on the record what we just witnessed at the department of justice. “It was a very sobering press conference for people who have watched attorney generals talk about serious cases.”
10 Facts About Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy That Go Beyond “The Act”
Bustle – April 18
If you’re like me, you stay up late Tuesday nights waiting for the next episode of The Act to drop at midnight eastern time on Hulu … n an episode of Mental Health News Radio, Munchausen syndrome by proxy expert Dr. Marc Feldman, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama and author of the book Playing Sick?, talks about medical abuse of pets, also known as Munchausen by animal proxy. This is when a pet parent intentionally harms their pet in order to get attention.
Wild Bee Species Critical To Pollination In New England Are On The Decline
CBS 4 (Boston) – April 19
More than a dozen wild bee species critical to pollinating everything from blueberries to apples in New England are on the decline, according to a new study … Jeff Lozier, a bee expert from the University of Alabama who did not take part in the research, called the study “interesting” and said the findings are a critical step in expanding research into lesser known species of bees.
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Magnet students learn about science through new partnership with UA
Tuscaloosa News – April 19
For the first time — and maybe not the last — students from the University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa Magnet Elementary School entered a partnership to teach science skills they could then replicate.
Extreme Temperature Diary-April 18th, 2019/ New Attribution Study…Maria Likely Stronger Because Of Global Warming
Guy on Climate – April 18
Thursday March 18th… Dear Diary. The main purpose of this ongoing post will be to track United States extreme or record temperatures related to climate change … “What we found was that Maria’s magnitude of peak precipitation is much more likely in the climate of 2017 when it happened versus the beginning of the record in 1950,” said David Keellings, a geographer at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and lead author of the new study in AGU’s journal Geophysical Research Letters.
National Water Center uses new technology to help fight flooding
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – April 18
Researchers at the National Water center on the University of Alabama campus have a new way to help fight flooding. New computer models as well as drones and sonar technology will help researchers pinpoint which rivers will flood this season. In their spring weather outlook, scientists estimated 13 million people are at risk for major flooding.
The haunting power of ‘In the Pines’
PRI.org – April 18
“I always had an attraction to the mystery of the song,” the singer-songwriter Bill Callahan says of “In the Pines.” … Today, there are more than 200 variations of the song sung over the better part of a century. With the help of Eric Weisbard, music critic and professor of American studies at the University of Alabama, and Elizabeth DiSavino, author and professor of music at Berea College, and musicians like Bill Callahan and Fantastic Negrito, we explore the long, rich musical and social history of this great old American song — before, and after, Kurt Cobain and Nirvana took a turn at making it theirs.
Local students inducted into Phi Kappa Phi
The Cecil Whig (Maryland) – April 18
The following local residents were recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines … Madison Griffitts, of Perryville, was initiated at The University of Alabama.
Meteorologist Receives Death Threats after Interrupting the Masters for Tornado Warnings
PJ Media – April 18
This year’s Masters Tournament was one for the ages. Tiger Woods mounted one of the most inspirational comebacks in sports history, winning one for the old guys … Dr. Laura Myers, director of the Center for Advanced Public Safety at the University of Alabama, can relate. “I’m a huge Masters fan and was watching Saturday” when Alabama stations began coverage of the tornadoes there, Myers said. “I knew it was going to make people mad.”