Sculpture’s dedication part of Tuscaloosa bicentennial celebration
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 8
She’s 30 feet tall, she weighs more than 9,500 pounds and she’s almost ready for her debut. Workers have been busy preparing the site along Tuscaloosa’s riverfront for a sculpture depicting Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategy. The Minerva sculpture, along with a timeline of key dates in Tuscaloosa’s history and a time capsule, will be dedicated at 10 a.m. Friday at the Park at Manderson Landing. The creation of the landmarks is meant to celebrate the city’s past, present and future on Tuscaloosa’s 200th birthday. Caleb O’Connor and Craig Wedderspoon, who is also a local artist, have collaborated for two years on the sculpture and timeline. While O’Connor focused on the sculpture and Wedderspoon concentrated on the timeline. The two elements are gifts to the residents of Tuscaloosa from the University of Alabama, with the sculpture being entirely funded from an endowed fund established by an anonymous donor. Minerva is also depicted in UA’s official seal.
University of Alabama to hold graduation ceremony
The Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 10
The University of Alabama will award degrees to more than 2,300 graduates Saturday during fall commencement exercises at Coleman Coliseum. Degrees will be presented in two sessions. The 9 a.m. session will feature students in the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Communication and Information Sciences, College of Engineering and School of Social Work.
Annual Northwestern Mutual Scholarship Program Helps Childhood Cancer Survivors and Siblings Achieve Higher Education
Lelezard – Dec. 10
Northwestern Mutual is dedicated to supporting children and families who have been impacted by childhood cancer through research funding and providing resources for survivors and their families. Today, through its Foundation, the company announced the recipients of its 2019 Childhood Cancer Survivor and Sibling Scholarship program. The application process for the 2020 program is also now open for submissions. …Chase Sieradski; Colorado The University of Alabama
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Large-scale education tests often come with side effects
Midland (Michigan) Daily News – Dec. 6
Yurou Wang, University of Alabama and Trina E. Emler, University of Kansas
(THE CONVERSATION) When results come out for big education tests like the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which primarily measures 15-year-old students’ knowledge and skills in reading, mathematics and science, the focus is often on which countries scored the highest.
Attorneys honored for work that freed woman
The Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 9
In October, the only woman in the Alabama prison system serving a life sentence for a drug crime walked free. And on Sunday, the legal team that won 72-year-old Geneva Cooley that victory was honored for their work in getting her released from the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka after 17 years behind bars. Tuscaloosa-based defense attorney Joel Sogol, along with Courtney Cross, director of the University of Alabama Law School’s Domestic Violence Clinic, and Terrika Shaw, staff attorney for the Law School’s Elder Clinic, were each presented the “Community Champion Award” by the A New Way of Life Reentry Project in Los Angeles.
Tuscaloosa plans to mark bicentennial on Friday
NBC 13 – Dec. 9
Tuscaloosa served as the state of Alabama’s capital city from 1826 to 1846. And it was during that time that the University of Alabama was established in 1831. “We were always just really known as a one shop town and that was people coming in for football. That’s significantly changed.”
Dr. Bill Bomar discusses bicentennial celebration and dedication of Tuscaloosa time capsule (live interview)
WVUA – Dec. 9
Our special guest tonight is Dr. Bill Bomar, executive director of University of Alabama museums. Good to see you as always. Thank you, Lynn. Lots of fun stuff happening, and we are focusing on Friday. I know there’s been stuff all year, but we want to talk about what’s coming up on Friday. We’ve had a bicentennial all year, and it comes to a head this week. This is the actual birthday of the city of Tuscaloosa.
What Would Mises Think About the West Today?
Austrian – Dec. 9
Those of us who read and enjoy Mises, and he wrote so much about so many things, might well wonder what he would have to say about the state of America and the West in 2019. After all, he was a sociologist and philosopher and political theorist as well as an economist. Surely we could use his perspective today, and so much of what he wrote was prescient and still relevant. Just this year a University of Alabama history professor published a book titled The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas which is a leftwing homage to the continuing influence of the Austrian school among the (supposedly) anti-socialist upper echelons of business and government—with Mises as its leader.
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA FRATERNITY, SORORITY HOST MIRACLE LEAGUE CHRISTMAS PARTY
WVUA – Dec. 9
The University of Alabama’s Theta Chi Fraternity and Chi Omega Sorority hosted a Miracle League Christmas party on Sunday afternoon for special needs kids and adults of all ages. The party was at the Theta Chi Fraternity house. Along with a craft room, Big AL and Santa Claus were around for children to take pictures with. Santa also handed out gifts. Annabel Roth, former chapter President of Chi Omega, said that this event means so much to Chi Omega and Theta Chi because philanthropy is a pillar of their organizations.
Milestones: Good news about Marin people
Marin Independent Journal – Dec. 7
Dean’s list: Jacqueline LaPoint, of Mill Valley; Caroline Gamble, of Novato, and Keelin McGuinness, of San Anselmo, were named to the dean’s list at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for the 2019 spring term.