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UA In the News — Aug. 3-5

UA, Tuscaloosa join forces on business, tech incubators
The Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 5
A new alignment of resources between The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa’s business incubator will help entrepreneurs and generate new jobs, officials say. The Bama Technology Incubator, which features on-campus support for start-up companies, will now be known as Edge Labs. The name change will emphasize the connection between Edge Labs, located on the northern end of UA’s campus close to the Ferguson Student Center, and the Edge, a 26,000 square-foot off-campus business incubator that opened in February as a collaboration between UA, the city of Tuscaloosa and the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama.

Trump condemned for proposing ‘immigration reform’ in wake of mass shootings – live
VIPortal – Aug. 5

Trump began today by blaming “Fake News” for having “contributed greatly to the anger and rage that has built up over many years.” And a University of Alabama law professor made this point about Trump’s morning tweet suggesting that a background checks bill should be linked to immigration reform: Joyce Alene This is sinister. Why do shootings mean we need immigration reform? By linking them, Trump blames the victims for the terrorism that took their lives. He throws red meat to his base-let’s keep Hispanics out of our country-in response to the crimes of a white supremacist.

The cable is the best on the Internet. Where it is not, the universe will help
TechBox – Aug. 5
For the last more than a quarter of a century, we have become accustomed to coexisting in the global web of the Internet and we consider access to the network slowly to be a basic human right. Over a period of time, a free and originally non-commercial network has become an important, if not the most important, communication environment as well as a platform that hosts commercial services on a large scale … Billions want internet from space. Bill Keel, astronomer at The University of Alabama, said that if plans were made to build multiple networks with thousands of low-orbital satellites, their brightness would be so great in a few years that the human eye would capture more satellites than stars. This will change the appearance of the starry sky forever.

In El Paso And Now Dayton, The Familiar Fallout Of A Mass Shooting Repeats Again
ATT – Aug. 5

The bodies still lay in the aisles of Walmart. Police officials in this border city had yet to release the 20 victims ‘ names, adding them to the long list of mass- shooting casualties in this gun- rich country. Only 12 hours and 35 minutes had elapsed. And then, another gunman opened fire on another crowd in another U.S. city, leaving another set of grief- stricken loved ones. On Saturday, it was El Paso: 20 dead, 26 injured. On Sunday it was Dayton, Ohio: 9 dead, 27 injured. Trump would get no argument on that point from Adam Lankford, a criminology professor at the University of Alabama. Lankford said mass shootings in the U.S. have gotten deadlier over time. According to his research, the average number of people killed in mass shootings has gone up 40% in the last decade compared to 1966 through 2009.
Daily Republic
NBC News
Los Angeles Times
GazetteXtra
Herald Mail Media
The Eagle
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Yahoo! News (U.S., Singapore, Brazil)
Patch (national news wire)
NBC (Davenport, Iowa)

Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Alabama Museums, Tuscaloosa, AL
Federal Register – Aug. 5
The University of Alabama Museums has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and present-day Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations.

Alabama forges on in Census battle after Trump retreats on citizenship question
Al.com – Aug 4
The battle over placing a citizenship question on the 2020 Census is over: Team Trump backed off. The forms are being printed without it. But for one state, a Census fight still awaits inside a federal courtroom. Alabama maintains that undocumented immigrants ought not to be included in a state’s total population count for congressional apportionment purposes. Gerald Webster, a professor of political geography at the University of Wyoming and a former geography professor at The University of Alabama, said he doesn’t see the lawsuit surviving because of the “Constitution’s requirement that total population be used” in reapportionment.

U.S. leads all countries in mass shootings
CBS (Spokane, Wash.) – Aug. 4
A study done at The University of Alabama found that a country’s rate of gun ownership correlated with the odds it would experience a mass shooting. As for the other explanations, they’ve been debunked by research.

British American Tobacco : State of Minnesota has $297 million invested in tobacco companies
Market Screener – Aug. 3

Two decades after Minnesota reached a landmark settlement with the tobacco industry and dumped much of its stock, the state has at least $297 million invested in major tobacco companies, from Philip Morris to British American Tobacco. Alan Blum, a doctor who was at the forefront of a call to remove tobacco investments in the 1990s, described the state’s investment in tobacco as particularly hypocritical, though not uncommon. Minnesota was among the first states to sue tobacco companies for health care costs in the 1990s. It was the first to enact a Clean Indoor Air Act in 1975. And the state was home to one of the leaders of the Great American Smokeout, an annual event to encourage smokers to quit. “It’s contemptible for Minnesota especially,” said Blum, director of the University of Alabama’s Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society.
Star Tribune

Early move-in at University of Alabama begins Aug. 7-9
The Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 3

Band members, sorority recruits and other early arrivals at The University of Alabama will begin moving into campus dorms on Aug. 7-9. The early arrivals come about two weeks before classes begin at UA for the fall semester. Other early arrivals include students participating in Honors College service-learning programs, a biology boot camp, Camp 1831 and some athletes. About 2,800 students are expected to arrive for early move-in. Another 4,250 will arrive for the general move-in Aug. 16-18

Do Activist Investors Target Female CEOs? – WSJ
Morning Star News (also in the print edition of the WSJ) – Aug. 3

Vicki Hollub is an engineer who spent time on three continents working her way up to the top of Occidental Petroleum Corp. She doesn’t have much experience at M&A, and that has made her an easy target for critics. The data indicates women are indeed far more likely to face an activist challenge. One exhaustive study conducted by University of Alabama researchers found 6% of male CEOs and 9.4% of female CEOs were confronted by activists. The numbers are small, but they indicate a woman CEO is 50% more likely to be targeted. The study, published last year in the Journal of Applied Psychology, relied on filings made by activist investors in public firms between 1996 to 2013.
ADVFN (Australia; UK)
Market Screener

Family celebrates graduation, another year cancer free
The Greater New Milford Spectrum – Aug. 3

Preschool student Loren Horner danced down the aisle in a white tutu Thursday (July 25) as she and her classmates celebrated graduation from the Rise Center housed on the University of Alabama campus. As her mother and stepfather watched in the audience, they reflected on the many milestones the family is celebrating. Loren, who was born with Down syndrome, came to Rise as a survivor of Leukemia.
Connecticut Post
News Times
The Register Citizen
The Middletown Press
The Hour
Stamford Advocate
Dothan Eagle

Are Activist Investors Sexist?
The Wall Street Journal – Aug. 2

The data indicates women are indeed far more likely to face an activist challenge. One exhaustive study conducted by University of Alabama researchers found 6% of male CEOs and 9.4% of female CEOs were confronted by activists. The numbers are small, but they indicate a woman CEO is 50% more likely to be targeted. The study, published last year in the Journal of Applied Psychology, relied on filings made by activist investors in public firms between 1996 to 2013.
Morningstar
ADVFN (Australia)
Market Screener