Best Ways To Beat Holiday Stress
Forbes.com – Nov. 20
…“We encourage people to not just jump on the bandwagon," says Dr. Beverly Thorn, professor of psychology at the University of Alabama. "We need small doses of expectations or else we're setting ourselves up for failure."…

A professor's odyssey
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 20
University of Alabama English professor Philip D. Beidler has a new book, an odyssey through the last 35 years since he served as a young Army officer in combat in Vietnam, and a comparison with today's Middle East conflicts. "American Wars, American Peace: Notes from a Son of the Empire" is a series of essays published by the University of Georgia Press…

College's program ranks third in nation
MSN.com – Nov. 20
…2006-2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index ranks UD behind the University of Alabama and the University of Wisconsin. The index is based on faculty publications, citations, and financial and honorary awards…

Alabama Voices: Stifling potential
Montgomery Advertiser – Nov. 20
A recent uproar about the rezoning in the Tuscaloosa City Schools sending hundreds of black students to virtually all-black lower-performing schools came as no surprise and further illustrates the tired, but unfortunately true, cliché -- those who do not know their history are condemned to repeat it. It also shows that until we stop focusing exclusively on race and accept that tax reform is necessary for all our children to have a chance to get an adequate education, we will never move beyond the issues we dealt with in the 1960s…Susan Pace Hamill is a professor of law at the University of Alabama School of Law.

Entrepreneur.Com predicts big changes for some popular businesses
Florence Times Daily – Nov. 20
…Dr. Lou Marino, professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Alabama, said change caused by technology is evident in most businesses. "It's called creative destruction," Marino said. "When the first auto came out, who would have thought at the time that the horse and buggy would be replaced? But the automobile caught on and things changed."…

Feeling stuffed after the feast? Work it out!
Worcester (Mass.) Telegram – Nov. 20
…Rebecca Kelly, director of health promotion and wellness at University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala., believes in a five-step approach to fight Thanksgiving overindulgence…

More People Travel On Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving Week
Fox 6 (Birmingham) -- Nov. 19
New statistics from the University of Alabama find more folks hit the roads on the Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving…
WAKA (Montgomery) -- Nov. 19

New Report Says College Students Don’t Read
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) -- Nov. 19
…University of Alabama education professor Joyce Stallworth says the two with mandated curriculum, the kinds of tasks they’re asked to do in school are often short, fill in the blank, multiple choice…Stallworth believes students have few reasons to read and practice journal writing on their own.

UA Studies Bus Seat Belt Issue
CBS 42 (Birmingham) -- Nov. 19
…The University of Alabama was recently awarded the research grant to perform this 3-year study, after every university was given the opportunity to do the research…