UA students demonstrate mind-controlled drone racing
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 4
University of Alabama students will use their minds to fly drones like this in an upcoming competition “this is more a like a sporting event if you will and the task for them is to test their ability to stay engaged, stay focused and sustain their brain activity. Chris Crawford, associate professor of computer science, explained how a student, also a pilot, will wear a special headset, that will produce a brainwave pattern that tells the drone to move. Pilots can’t command it turn left or right. But they can make it move faster and fly longer by how hard they concentrate.
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UA Forensics Council hosts individual events tournament
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – April 4
The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences and the Alabama Forensic Council is hosting the American Forensics Association individual events tournament. The tournament is all about public speaking and lots of students were doing some practicing today to prepare. A group of twelve students from Hastings College in Nebraska were fine-tuning their presentations at the Ferguson center.
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 4
Are Law Enforcement Efforts Making Cocaine Trafficking Worse?
The Fix – April 5
New research led by the University of Alabama is showing that cocaine traffickers through Central America are continuously adapting to law enforcement efforts in ways that may be making the problem worse rather than better.
Technology Networks – April 5
What Mueller Found (Live Interview)
MSNBC Live with Ali Velshi – April 4
Let’s look at this from the legal perspective. Joyce Vance, is now a professor at the University of Alabama law school and an MSNBC contributor. Joyce, let’s discuss a couple of things here. First of all, there were things in the letter that William Barr sent to Congress he says he would redact for several reasons.
How Common Is Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy? Here’s What You Might Be Wondering After Watching “The Act”
Bustle – April 4
If you’ve been keeping up with The Act on Hulu, the dramatization of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s alleged abuse at the hands of her mother Dee Dee, you’re probably curious about what drives a caregiver to purposefully make a child seem sick … If a death results from Munchausen by proxy, it’s is typically the victim, not the perpetrator, who dies. Marc Feldman, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama and author of the book Playing Sick?, told the Springfield News-Leader that Blanchard’s case — she is currently serving 10 years in prison for her involvement in her mother’s murder — is unprecedented.
Concert to showcase University of Alabama students’ work
Tuscaloosa News – April 4
The University of Alabama’s Contemporary Ensemble will present an evening of music composed by students. “Composers Present” will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the concert hall of the Moody Music Building, 810 Second Ave. Admission is $5, with all proceeds benefiting Five Horizons Health Services, a nonprofit organization formerly known as the West Alabama AIDS Outreach.
WHAT IS MUSICAL GENRE EXACTLY?
Pacific Standard – April 5
A rogue stallion galloped triumphantly through the well-worn path of Billboard‘s Hot Country Charts last month. As with many an outlaw stopover, if you blinked, you missed it … Its most significant legacy is coming up with the names for “Country and Western” and “Rhythm and Blues” in the late 1940s, says Eric Weisbard, a professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama and author of Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music.
Sorry, Laws Protecting Doctors Who Apologize Don’t Lessen Litigation
Insurance Journal – April 5
Laws intended to reduce malpractice litigation by protecting doctors who want to apologize don’t work, according to a new Vanderbilt analysis of proprietary insurance data … In addition to Van Horn the authors are W. Kip Viscusi, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics and Management and Benjamin McMichael, assistant professor of law at the University of Alabama.
Druid City Arts Festival ready for double duty
Tuscaloosa News – April 4
Growth was built in to the concept for the first Druid City Arts Festival, in 2010. A University of Alabama, the Creative Campus Initiative, served as incubator for the idea, with intent to pass it on a partner or partners who could develop the next stages. That first DCAF, featuring 21 bands and 16 visual artists, was patterned after Athens, Georgia’s Athfest, and Austin, Texas’s South by Southwest, both of which sprawl over multiple days and artistic genres.
Astonishment, skepticism greet fossils claimed to record dinosaur-killing asteroid impact
Science Magazine – April 1
A fossil site in North Dakota records a stunningly detailed picture of the devastation minutes after an asteroid slammed into Earth about 66 million years ago, a group of paleontologists argue in a paper due out this week … “I hope this is all legit—I’m just not 100% convinced yet,” says Thomas Tobin, a geologist at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Axios.com – April 4
Randall W. Poston elected president of American Concrete Institute
Prism – April 4
The American Concrete Institute (ACI) recently introduced its 2019-2020 president, vice president, and four board members during The Concrete Convention and Exposition in Quebec City, QC, Canada … Michael E. Kreger, FACI, is the holder of the Garry Neil Drummond Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Columbia gallery showcases South Arts Fellows
Aiken Standard (South Carolina) – April 4
The Southern arts scene has come a long way since 1919 when social commentator H.L. Mencken wrote his controversial essay “Sahara of the Bozart.” … In the first category is a large-scale work by Jamey Grimes, who teaches at the University of Alabama. Sprawling across the ceiling of the gallery is a mass of school-bus yellow, corrugated and perforated plastic entitled “Roil.” As its title implies, this piece agitatedly expands overhead, twisting and turning in upon itself.
Rick Bragg is reading James Lee Burke, Carl Hiaasen and Southern history
TampaBay.com – April 4
Bragg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who divides his time between writing books and articles for such publications as Southern Living, and teaching his craft at the University of Alabama.
Student E-News: March 2019
MICPA.org – April 4
We are thrilled to recognize the following students who joined in January and February. Welcome to the MICPA! … University of Alabama College of Business – Leah Diehl.
Dana Tokarzewski of South Plainfield Part of BFA Senior Gallery Show at University of Alabama
Tap Into South Plainfield (New Jersey) – April 4
University of Alabama senior Dana Tokarzewski of South Plainfield, NJ (07080), is one of four BFA candidates to participate in a group gallery show. The quartet will display their work April 16-23 in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery on UA campus. A reception for the artists will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the gallery.