Staggering Philly drug bust shows traffickers turning to East Coast
Associated Press – June 19
If drug interdiction can be compared to a giant game of whack-a-mole, federal law enforcement officials delivered one mighty wallop this week when they raided a container ship at Philadelphia’s port and discovered a staggering amount of cocaine. . . . . “As soon as interdiction puts pressure on one place, it just pops up somewhere else. We’ve continually seen that,” said Nicholas Magliocca, a University of Alabama researcher who studies how traffickers adapt to interdiction. “As long as the demand is there, and there’s money to be made, traffickers are going to find a way.”
Mediacom – June 19
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Hot Springs Sentinel Record – June 19
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Toshiba Start – June 19
How One Professor Helps Online Students Forge Connections
Chronicle of Higher Education – June 20
In theory, at least, college students spend quite a bit more time studying than attending class. But just how much work can professors expect them to accomplish during that time? A recent tweet from Claire Major, a professor in the Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies department at the University of Alabama, points to a handy tool: The Course Workload Estimator from Rice University. Fill in some blanks on your course’s reading and writing assignments and exams, and the tool will provide an estimate of the hours you’re asking students to put in per week.
Hosts of NPR’s ‘White Lies’ on how ‘white’ Alabama talks about troubling history
AL.com – June 20
The first episode of the NPR podcast “White Lies” starts with a lot of truths. Hosts and journalists Chip Brantley and Andrew Beck Grace readily admit that they grew up in “white” Alabama where their communities didn’t readily discuss race. Raised in a generation after the civil rights movement, both men say some parts of the state seemed far away — particularly the black and white photographs from the 1965 voting rights movement in Selma.
University of Alabama hosting wheelchair basketball camp
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – June 19
The University of Alabama has produced three national champions recently when it comes to wheelchair basketball. That one reason is why this may be the largest wheelchair basketball camp in school history. The sport has been part of the Adapted Athletics program at UA for a number of years. This week, those coaches are working with kids who want to become better at playing it. Camp opened Wednesday. Nearly 60 kids from elementary school age up to high school are participating.
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Full-court press: UA hosts wheelchair basketball camp
Tuscaloosa News – June 21
University of Alabama men’s wheelchair basketball coach Ford Bertram spoke with campers during the University of Alabama Adapted Athletics wheelchair basketball camp in the Stran-Hardin Arena at the recreation complex Thursday. UA hosted 58 wheelchair athletes for the camp.
The birth of forests helped drive two massive, ancient extinctions
ZME Science – June 20
The first forests on Earth may have caused massive extinctions of shallow marine life, a new study finds. An international team of researchers led by members from The University of Alabama finds that the oldest forests in today’s southeastern North America popped up millions of years earlier than previously believed. At the time, North America was part of a minor supercontinent, which suggests that forests spread across all big land masses today at that time.
UA hosts Druid City Girls Media Camp
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – June 19
The Druid City Girls media program is hosting an all-girls camp this week at the UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA. The camp focuses on teaching them how to write, shoot, and edit short films. Students from UA are running the camp and wrote the curriculum for this week’s learning objectives.
UA VP for Research and Economic Development discusses entrepreneurship (live interview)
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – June 19
Our special guest tonight is Dr. Russell Mumper, The University of Alabama’s VP of Research and Economic Development. So, welcome to The University of Alabama, you’ve been here, what, six months? I’ve been here six months. Well, Roll Tide! Roll Tide! Your title doesn’t tell us everything. What’s your exact role? So, my title is Vice President for Research and Economic Development, and in that role, I help to oversee the research enterprise of the University. It’s an expansive enterprise now in terms of the breadth and depth of the research we are doing.
OLLI hosts workshop on preventing elder abuse
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – June 19
Today, the Area Agency on Aging of West Alabama and Osher Lifelong Learning at The University of Alabama teamed up to educate seniors on the dangers of scams. Seniors are often the target of scammers. Criminals hope to not only take advantage of them, but to steal their money as well.
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – June 19
25 area students earn degrees from the University of Alabama
Cullman Tribune – June 21
The University of Alabama awarded some 5,716 degrees during its spring commencement May 3-5.
TapintoSouthPlainfield.com (New Jersey) – June 20
Hockessin (Delaware) News – June 20
St. Mary’s (Maryland) News – June 20
Hamilton County (Indiana) Times – June 20
West Georgia Neighbor – June 20
Dover Post (Delaware) – June 20
Greensboro (North Carolina) News and Record –June 20
ACADEMIC ACCOLADES: LOCAL STUDENTS EARN COLLEGIATE HONORS, DEGREES
Bluebonnet News (Liberty, Texas) – June 20
Hannah Page Ellis of Cleveland, has received the following from The University of Alabama: Bachelor of Science in Human Environmental Sciences. UA awarded some 5,716 degrees during spring commencement.
Putnam Town Crier (Connecticut) – June 20
What Happens When the CFO Is the COO, Too?
CFO – June 21
A notable development in corporate governance over the past two decades is that CFOs have considerably expanded their management role, in some instances taking on the additional position of chief operating officer. . . . The research yielded “no evidence that CFO/COO duality adversely … affects operations, a finding that may calm concerns about the operational business acumen of accountants,” wrote the authors, Steve Buchheit, Austin Reitenga, and Daniel Street of the University of Alabama and George Ruch of the University of Oklahoma.
UA biological science professor talks about pythons
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – June 20
Pythons are not poisonous and venomous. They are constrictors and squeeze their prey to death before ingestion. I spoke to UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA biological sciences professor Stephen Secor about the creepy crawler who he says is more scared of us than we are of it.