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Rural health care’s future
Tuscaloosa News – July 30
…said Dr. John Wheat. As vice co-chairman of the Black Belt Action Commission’s health committee, he helped organize the program. “This Black Belt health scholars program is a way that communities in this region of the state may begin to support their own local students in choosing health care careers." This isn’t the first time Wheat has been involved in an effort to attract young rural students into health care careers. He is also the founder and director of the University of Alabama’s Rural Health Leaders Pipeline…

College News
Tuscaloosa News – July 30
Katie Price of Northport received a scholarship from the Jimmy Rane Foundation…will attend the University of Alabama, where she will pursue a degree in accounting...Rob Cramer, a University of Alabama graduate student in clinical psychology from Shrub Oak, N.Y., has been selected as a recipient of a National Science Foundation Fellowship, designed to foster international collaboration between U.S. students and researchers abroad…Melissa Chambers worked as an intern for U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, R-Ala., in his Washington, D. C. office…attends the University of Alabama where she is pursuing a degree in consumer sciences.

UA digs into history of Cuban Indians
Tuscaloosa News –- July 28
University of Alabama students will have a chance to find out as part of a two-year, joint U.S.-Cuban archaeological expedition…Jim Knight, a professor of anthropology at UA, is overseeing the expedition, which came about through his work with Cuban archaeologists. He and his Cuban counterparts came up with the joint expedition, which got under way with the arrival of two UA graduate students in Cuba on July 10…

A living wage one avenue to justice, some say
Tuscaloosa News – July 28
…Susan Hamill, a law professor at the University of Alabama who is well known for making an argument for tax reform based on Judeo-Christian ethics. While Hamill said she has not studied the living wage as intensely as she studied tax reform, she does think there is a strong religious and theological case that can be made for a living wage…

Wrenching and compelling, slavery's on display
Birmingham News – July 29
…Josh Rothman, a professor of 19th century history at the University of Alabama, said the resurgence of interest in slavery coincides with revived investigations into civil rights-era slayings…

Where ribs are an art form
Wall Street Journal – July 27
…On football Saturdays, Dreamland loyalists wait two and three hours to be served in this small but densely decorated adjunct of the University Athletic Department…

Alabama student claims top prize
Tuscaloosa News – July 30
…University of Alabama finance major, Bo Farlow, who shot a two-day total of 153 to win the Championship Division of the Championship flight on Sunday afternoon at Ol’ Colony Golf Complex…

Business Buzz
Tuscaloosa News – July 29
Jason Hatter has been named the manufacturing outreach coordinator for the Alabama Productivity Center at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He will be a field engineer for the center’s ventures with organizations throughout the state…

Paul Finebaum: Spurrier tops SEC coach list
Mobile Register – July 28
2. Nick Saban (Alabama): Saban has completely and dramatically affected the attitude of Alabama football and for the first time in a long time, this program is legitimately thinking national championships…