The futility of the failed global war on drugs laid bare
Illicit Trade News Network – June 27
While further evidence was hardly needed, the UN’s recently published World Drug Report 2019 once again hammered home the abject failure of the decades-long global war on narcotics … Back in April, a paper from researchers at the University of Alabama revealed that America’s war on drugs had helped narcotics cartels spread across Central America.
The truths and myths of cheating
My Joy Online – June 27
Mike Pence refuses to dine alone with women other than his wife. For the US vice president it is a mark of respect for his wife, Karen, and a rule guided by his strong religious convictions … Greg Tortoriello, a psychologist at the University of Alabama has studied the effects of perceived failure on people; particularly, people whose personalities might mean they react poorly to failure.
How Students Can Use Their Mobile Phones for Access, Cashless Transactions and More!
Campus Safety – June 27
Transact’s NFC-enabled mobile credentials have been implemented at the University of Oklahoma, University of Alabama, Duke University, Johns Hopkins, Temple University and more.
Marist University of Merida and the University of Northern Iowa, Iowa, earn US fund for project
La Vieja Guardia – June 27
The United States Department of State, the United States Embassy in Mexico City, Partners of the Americas and the Mary Street Jenkins Foundation announce the winners of the grant in the last Innovation Fund contest … University of Alabama, Alabama, United States.
Yucatan En Corto (Mexico) – June 27
Decades of history found in the Wiregrass
CBS 4 (Dothan) – June 27
Alabama is celebrating its 200th anniversary. A Wiregrass town that’s almost as old at 199 years is Columbia … The Columbia Historical Society is partnering with the University of Alabama’s office of Archeological Research to create a 3-dimensional rendering to document a defining decade and in order to get it completed, they started with the people who call it home.
What If Teachers Didn’t Focus So Much on Individual Achievement?
The Atlantic – June 27
One late-summer afternoon in 1994, Renee Moore—an English teacher at the nearly all-black East Side High School in Cleveland, Mississippi—received a phone call. On the other line was a friend: “Renee, you need to get over here right away,” she said in a hushed tone. “We are throwing away books.” … Last year Foster, along with Melanie M. Acosta, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama, and Diedre F. Houchen, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, synthesized a large body of research stretching back to the 1920s on the practices developed by effective black educators.
In Alabama, protecting the LGBTQ community has become a ‘very local issue’
Al.com – June 27
Mobile could become the third city in Alabama to include sexual orientation and gender identity as a protected class within its non-discrimination ordinances … “These ordinances are important for making sure that LGBTQ people have access to legal options if and when they face this type of discrimination,” said Joshua Burford, director of the Invisible Histories Project in Alabama, who also teaches LGBTQ history at the University of Alabama. “Having it on the books allows people to understand that there will be consequences for discrimination.”
College News
Brattleboro Reformer (Vermont) – June 27
Michaela Shea-Gander of Brattleboro was named to the Dean’s List for the 2019 spring semester at Denison University in Granville, Ohio … Mary Ellis of Vernon and Ava Zizza of Wilmington were named to the Dean’s List for the 2019 spring semester at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Students must earn a GPA of 3.5 or higher to be named to the Dean’s List.
PJP Newspapers – June 27
Potomac Local – June 27
5 THINGS TO DO IN TUSCALOOSA THIS WEEKEND: JUNE 28-30
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – June 27
With the official start of Summer 2019 underway, here is a list of fun and cheap activities to do this weekend in Tuscaloosa … Their next event is this Friday, June 28 as the University of Alabama Biology Outreach Students will host “Biology Bosses!” from 1-4 p.m. For more information on upcoming events, check out their website here.