White House confirms Tide trip to D.C.
Tuscaloosa News – March 3
The University of Alabama’s national championship football team will visit President Barack Obama and the White House on Monday, and the trip will include a service project for the Crimson Tide…Past championship teams, both pro and college, have conducted service projects on visits to the White House, including care packages for troops overseas, clinics on healthy lifestyles, and other such philanthropy. According to a White House official, the Crimson Tide will meet with local D.C.-area youth on the importance of staying in school and making good choices. The youth group will attend the White House ceremony with the team…
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UA professor helps develop liquid aspirin
Crimson White – March 3
…Robin Rogers, a professor of in the chemistry department at the University, has worked with a team for the past two years in developing a liquid-based aspirin. Rogers said the solution has boundless potential for pain management, including its own application. “This might allow this drug to be delivered more effectively through the skin than ingested orally through the stomach,” Rogers said…Dan Daly, director of the Alabama Institute for Manufacturing Excellence at the University, partners with Rogers in a UA-based company called 525PM, which deals specifically with pain management. Specifically, Daly is confident that this liquid aspirin, as well as other products put out by the company, have immense potential. “We think the technology is extremely exciting and has lots of attributes,” Daly said…
New College conference teaches democracy
Crimson White – March 3
The University’s New College partnered with the David Mathews Center for Civic Life to host a conference designed to teach democratic ways to deal with everyday life situations. Connect the Dots will last today through Saturday in Point Clear and is open to all students, teachers and other faculty members, according to a UA news release. The conference will feature workshops such as “Preserving Free Speech and Civil Discourse on Campus: Student Rights and Responsibilities,” “Organizing Public Deliberation Programs” and “Sustained Dialogue,” according to the news release.
Noted writer with Tuscaloosa ties dies
Tuscaloosa News – March 3
…(Barry) Hannah, considered one of the country’s finest fiction writers, died Monday at his home in Oxford, Miss. He was 67. Not long after his first novel, “Geronimo Rex,” won the William Faulkner prize for writing and was nominated for a National Book Award, Hannah helped create the master of fine arts program in fiction at the University of Alabama….Phil Beidler was a professor in UA’s English department and a colleague and friend of Hannah’s. He also saw a connection between Hannah and links to the divine. “I don’t mean to make any kind of inflated comparison, but you know Mozart had this gift, this genius, this thing that the gods gave him,” Beidler said…Don Noble, another former UA colleague and friend, said writers considered Hannah the “dean of Southern literature.”…
New York Times – March 3
Alabama football names Sherrer Director of Player Development
Tuscaloosa News – March 3
Alabama football coach Nick Saban announced on Monday the hiring of Kevin Sherrer as Director of Player Development. In this role, Sherrer will focus on the off-the-filed activities of Alabama’s football student-athletes and will serve as an important resource in balancing the demands of academics, athletics, community outreach, and their personal lives. Sherrer will also assist with the strength and conditioning program, as well as the peer intervention group. “We are pleased and happy to add Kevin Sherrer to our program,” Saban said. “This position is important in terms of developing our players in all areas during their college careers. Our goal is to create an environment that helps student-athletes be more successful in life because of their time at the University of Alabama. We feel certain Kevin will do an outstanding job in his role and will be an asset to our program.”…
The sweet taste of success
Montgomery Advertiser – March 3
Selma native Robert Armstrong turned his grandmother’s cookie recipe into a growing business. It took some convincing, but those who know the 24-year-old University of Alabama business administration major now see just how serious he is about cookies…With her blessings, Armstrong took her recipe and tweaked it and started the Selma Good Co., a micro-bakery in downtown Selma…
College News
Tuscaloosa News – March 3
Stillman College held its eighth annual Integration of Technology into Instruction: Best Practices Conference, Feb. 18-19…Guest presenters for the conference included…Dr. Ivon Foster, Dr. Rachel Shuttlesworth, Rick Dowling and Dr. George L. Daniels from the University of Alabama; and Joan Greene from the Alabama Department of Education.