Microscope gives UA leg up in research
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 24
…Mark Weaver, a University of Alabama professor of metallurgical and materials engineering, has a federal grant to study the process, and the university has recently purchased a device that allows him to look at the chemical breakdown, atom-by-atom. Called a Local Electron Atom Probe, or LEAP, the machine could put UA on the map for nanotechnology, the field of studying extremely tiny designs…

Opinion: Going beyond charity
Montgomery Advertiser – Sept. 23
…Alabama Poverty Project, The Center for Ethics & Social Responsibility at The University of Alabama, Impact Alabama and the UAB Center for Urban Affairs are pleased to announce To Whom Much is Given -- a statewide conference on service learning in higher education, to be held Sept. 27 and 28 in Tuscaloosa…Stephen Foster Black is director of the University of Alabama Center for Ethics & Social Responsibility, founder and president of Impact Alabama: A Student Service Initiative and a board member of the Alabama Poverty Project.
Birmingham News – Sept. 23
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 23

GameDay comes to Bama
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 23
ESPN GameDay, the weekly college football sports show, brought crowds to the Quad early on Saturday for its first visit in two years. On that previous occasion -- and the three that preceded it -- the Crimson Tide lost. But fans were undeterred on Saturday. It was national TV, after all, and ESPN was in town to see what head coach Nick Saban could do to erase the GameDay jinx…

Wireless internet now on Quad
Crimson White – Sept. 24
…SGA President R.B. Walker, whose campaign platform included a wireless campus, said as of the summer the Quad is 100 percent wireless. “We were 20 percent wireless on the Quad in April of 2006," Walker said. "And they were mainly signals off of academic buildings that had it."…

Former dean to discuss UA segregation history
Crimson White – Sept. 24
…Clark spoke at Gorgas Library about Lucy and his book "The Schoolhouse Door." Clark is currently dean of the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The book chronicles the University's role in higher education segregation up to George Wallace's Stand in the Schoolhouse Door in 1963, when he tried to deny enrollment to two black students, Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood…

Program planned to help elderly parents
Crimson White – Sept. 24
Helping Older Parents Engage Successfully is the name and the goal of a new study being conducted by researchers at the UA School of Social Work. The study is for caregivers who are 60 years old or older with adult children who have schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder…

UA Law School to preview U.S. Supreme Court cases
Crimson White – Sept. 24
Students will have an opportunity to hear about upcoming U.S. Supreme Court cases at the School of Law Supreme Court Preview on Tuesday at 11 a.m. Some of the cases that will be discussed include the International Court of Justice and disputes involving Guantanamo detainees. The court's session begins Oct 1. Hattie Kaufman, senior assistant dean for advancement in the law school, said law professors would discuss cases the court has agreed to hear. “These are very significant cases, cases that are important for the American judicial system," Kaufman said…

State drops in child well-being
Florence Times-Daily – Sept. 23
…Officials with the Alabama State Data Center at the University of Alabama said the data regarding household income isn't necessarily indicative of what families are earning. "Most of the children are living in families, that is, two-income households," said center manager Annette Jones Waters. "Economic conditions could play a part, of course, but median family income is generally higher than household because a household can mean anything from college roommates to a single parent. The bottom line is the average number of people in a household is declining."…

East Boulevard continues to lose retail stores
Montgomery Advertiser – Sept. 22
…Kristy Reynolds, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Alabama, suggested a few weeks ago that dying malls have to find a way to reinvent themselves or face extinction…

Former UA players still a team
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 22
…Victor Ellis, Ahmaad Galloway still fighting an opponent together -- this time a disease…Ellis, 27, came down with a bad cough that he couldn’t shake. He went to a doctor in Charlotte, N.C., where he worked as a regional recruiter for the University of Alabama’s admissions office…While Ellis does not work in the university’s offices in Tuscaloosa, his voice and personality are well known through the near-daily checks he makes on prospective students. “He has a great sense of humor and is very easy to talk to," said his supervisor, Rick Funk, the admissions office’s associate director. “I’ve heard from a number of parents about how good it was that he made their student feel comfortable." He said the office workers wish they could visit him and see his face, even though the miles make it logistically impossible, but they did hold a prayer service for him and took up a collection. “It makes it tough sometimes to feel like … you’re not doing as much as you can because the person’s not here," Funk said…

College News
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 24
A group of high school students from across the state recently completed the 2007 Rural Health Scholars Program at the University of Alabama…Submissions for the annual Student Book Collecting Contest sponsored by the University of Alabama Libraries will be accepted until 4 p.m. on Oct. 5…

Two sororities host race relations forum to discuss Jena 6 case
Crimson White – Sept. 24
…Delta Xi Phi multicultural sorority and Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority will be co-sponsoring a forum concerning race relations Tuesday at 7 p.m. in 34 Bidgood Hall. The forum will deal with race relations in general, including the relevance of the Jena 6 to the discussion of race relations, and race relations at the University. It will consist of a five-person panel including three professors and two students…

UA event to explore conflict, religion
Decatur Daily – Sept. 22
A University of Alabama symposium, “Religion and Conflict” will be Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., in Gorgas Library. Tim Murphy of the Department of Religious Studies will speak on “Religion as the Structuring of Asymmetrical Relations.”…

Opinion: King ignores justice in grandstanding
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 24
…And a law professor at the University of Alabama said King would be handling the state’s appeal of the case anyway…

Opinion: Focus on health too
Crimson White – Sept. 24
…The editorial board of The Crimson White applauds the SHC for this hiring and suggests that everyone make an appointment or at least go by the dietitian-on-the-go stand in the Ferguson Center…

Group helps people with disabilities
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 23
Larry Turner has a job busing tables at the University of Alabama’s Ferguson Student Center and lives in a comfortable home in Northport that he shares with two other men…
But as an individual with limited intellectual capacity and other disabilities, Turner is under the almost constant supervision of staffers of the local branch of Volunteers of America Southeast…

RVers Make Tuscaloosa Home for the Weekend
CBS 42 (Birmingham) -- Sept. 21

Tide Text Alert
NBC 13 (Birmingham) -- Sept. 21
UA is now using Tide Text Alert to alert students to danger on campus.