Monday, Tuesday now most dangerous travel days of holiday week, study says
Birmingham News – Nov. 19
Today and Tuesday likely will see the most crashes on the state's roads this week, as holiday revelers take time off work and treat every day like New Years Eve, according to a study by a traffic research lab at the University of Alabama. In a trend UA's CARE Research & Development Laboratory has been monitoring since 2002, Thanksgiving week crashes have shifted from being concentrated on the day before Thanksgiving to being more evenly…Allen Parrish, a professor of computer science and director of the lab, said in a printed statement that the result has been a rise in drunk driving on those days, and the greatest number of resulting crashes are one-car wrecks late at night in rural areas…
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Alabama wins food drive
Crimson White – Nov. 19
For the first time since 1999, the University has topped Auburn University in the annual Beat Auburn Beat Hunger Food Drive competition, raising 241,336 pounds of food -

Capital campaign reaches $428 million
Crimson White – Nov. 19
The University announced that it has raised $428 million toward the $500 million goal for its "Our Students, Our Future" campaign. The campaign will conclude June 2009. "We try to release an update every few months. People are interested in what we are doing, and we want to keep the public aware of how we are doing," said David Wolf, assistant vice president for development…

Taxes perilous for politicians
Dothan Eagle – Nov. 18
…Rob Ingram, senior associate dean of the College of Commerce at the University of Alabama, said the populace view of taxation has always been puzzling. We, as a people, enjoy the benefits tax dollars bring, but we are not inclined to be asked to help pay for them…

Economy sending mixed signals
Montgomery Advertiser – Nov. 18
…Dr. Sam Addy, who heads the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Ala¬bama, insisted things are going great, especially for Alabama.
Less than a day later, at a differ¬ent forum, Dr. David Bronner, who heads the Retirement Sys¬tems of Alabama, went down an ex¬tensive list of world problems that he says could haunt Alabama's economy…

Mortgage crisis echoes through region spared most of its effects
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 17
…“It looks like we’ll come out with little damage compared to places like Cleveland where subprime lending has been so rampant that whole parts of the city are going under,” said Leonard Zumpano, professor of finance at the University of Alabama and founder and former director of the UA-based Alabama Center for Real Estate…

Unemployment hits record low
Montgomery Advertiser – Nov. 17
…”The state's economy has been doing real good. It's been growing faster than the U.S. economy," said Ahmad Ijaz, an economist at the University of Alabama…

Husband and wife biologists track amphibians in Oakmulgee District
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 18
…The observations gathered over three years will be analyzed in the University of Alabama biology department and is funded with more than $316,000 by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior…

UA freshman engineering competition teaches students to work harder and smarter
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 17
…Friday’s Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at the University of Alabama was an exercise in inefficiency. It is UA’s third such contest, named after an early 20th century cartoonist famous for his illustrations of ridiculously complex machines that performed the simplest of tasks. This year’s competition, the largest to date, pitted 15 freshman engineering classes against one another to create a machine that would, in theory, build a hamburger…

Rants and Raves
Montgomery Advertiser – Nov. 18
RAVE: For the fine work of Ernest Mancini, distinguished research professor of petroleum geology at the University of Alabama. Mancini is the winner of the Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award for 2007. He has been on the UA faculty for more than 30 years and has also served as the state geologist.

Rants and Raves
Montgomery Advertiser – Nov. 17
RAVE: For the Alabama Department of Senior Services' REACH Intervention Project, which helps ease stress on those who care for loved ones with Alzheimer's disease. It recently received the 2007 Rosalynn Carter Leadership in Caregiving Award. The program is a joint effort of the Alabama Department of Senior Services and the University of Alabama's Center for Mental Health and Aging. REACH stands for Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health. It teaches caregivers how to avoid negatively impacting their own health.

Alumni tailgate raises money for ailing ex-player
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 18
…Tailgating with the Legends was a fundraiser to help raise money for former All-SEC Alabama middle linebacker Victor Ellis, who was diagnosed this year with a rare form of cancer called renal medullary carcinoma…

College News
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 19
Ernest A. Mancini, research professor of petroleum geology and stratigraphy at the University of Alabama, was honored with the 2007 Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award at a ceremony at the UA President’s Mansion on Friday… -- James C. “Jim” Hall, director of New College, has been elected president of the Alabama Folklife Association…