Witt: School to meet enrollment goal
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 8
The University of Alabama is ahead of its 28,000-student enrollment target set five years ago and likely will reach the goal in three years, the school's president said Friday…"We have made significant progress in the last four years meeting our program target Alabama," Witt told the Alabama Commission on Higher Education on Friday…

Program helps UA students with autism
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 10
… The UA ASD College Transition and Support Program kicked off this fall with the mission to help three students — including the Wilsons’ daughter — with autism spectrum disorder successfully navigate the academic and social realms of college…Transition and support programs like the one at UA are starting to gain attention within the realm of autism. But they are rare and relatively new to college campuses. “We’re one of the first five in the country,” said Dr. Laura Grofer Klinger, director of UA’s Autism Spectrum Disorders Research Clinic, which established the program. “We haven’t really advertised our program, and we’re already getting plenty of calls to fill up the class [for next year]. We are getting calls from all over the country. … That is something we shouldn’t have been surprised about, but we were. We are even getting calls from people who want to come here three years from now.”…

Sturgeon days may be numbered in Alabama waters
Mobile Press-Register – Dec. 10
…About 30 inches long and weighing 2 to 3 pounds, the brassy orange Alabama fish with a tapered snout is one of just 25 sturgeon species in the world, said Bernie Kuhajda, collections manager at the University of Alabama…As a biological family, sturgeon have a lineage reaching back to the days of the dinosaurs, according to Kuhajda…

A question of culture
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 8
…The Culture Builds initiative is co-sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama, the city of Tuscaloosa, city of Northport, Tuscaloosa County and the University of Alabama. It seeks to bring area institutions, neighborhoods and amenities — from the symphony to the Crimson Tide, the bluegrass pickers to the poets — under its umbrella…

Gymnasts give kids Christmas Cheer
Fox6 (Birmingham) – Dec. 8
The University of Alabama gymnastics team hosted a holiday party for kids in the “RISE” program yesterday…