Saban proud of charitable foundation’s growth
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 4
University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban announced Tuesday that his charitable foundation has raised a total of $1.5 million to help needy children, including $450,000 for the past year…At the conclusion of the event, the Sabans took photos with children representing many of the 140 charities that the foundation helps support. Terry Saban said the Nick’s Kids luncheon, now in its fourth year, is her favorite day of the year….
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UA prepares for Week of Welcome
Crimson White – Aug. 4
The University of Alabama’s annual Week of Welcome will take place this year from Friday, Aug. 13, through Friday, Aug. 20. WOW is a one-week event that provides freshman students the opportunity to connect with new people, engage in college life and explore the Capstone…“Week of Welcome is a fun and exciting time for students to meet new people and figure out where they belong on campus,” said Lauren Crain, a sophomore majoring in civil engineering who attended WOW last year. “I really enjoyed my experience with WOW. It made me feel more at home on UA’s campus.”
UA Athletics donates to Afghan project
Crimson White – Aug. 4
The UA athletic department gave soccer and basketball shirts to local Afghan workers who were building a soccer field in Afghanistan, Major Kendrick Traylor, an Army ROTC instructor at the University said. The donation was made in an effort to help the personnel create a recreational soccer field for Afghan students, Traylor said. “Education is the common denominator for all individuals to create better opportunities for themselves, and is especially important here in Afghanistan,” Traylor said… Traylor said he sent an email to athletic marketing assistant Kimberlee Johnson presenting his idea… The athletic department began looking for ways to support Traylor’s unit and decided to donate clothing to the effort, Johnson said. She said the items given were shirts from the student basketball group Crimson Chaos and the UA soccer program…Andrew Merchant, a junior majoring in history and a member of Army ROTC, said this donation shows the University’s support for military personnel serving in Afghanistan.“The athletic department taking part in this whole donation shows that the University is an organization looking to help others,” Merchant said…
Summit grants students forum for change
Crimson White – Aug. 4
The University of Alabama held its 11th annual Alabama Youth Summit July 30 through 31, Miriam Fry, a senior majoring in political science and the program’s director, said. The Alabama Youth Summit provides a forum for Alabama’s outstanding high school leaders to discuss, debate and develop ideas that will positively change the state of Alabama and give them a voice in state issues and public policy, according to www.sga.ua.edu. Fifty high school students attended the program and all of the students had previously participated in Alabama Girls State, Alabama Boys State or YMCA Youth in Legislature, Fry said…Fry said after attending the Alabama Youth Summit in the 2006 she knew she wanted to help out with the program in the future. “It literally persuaded me to come to school here,” Fry said. “I never went on an official campus tour. Alabama Youth Summit sold me and that’s all I needed,” Fry said…
UA, AU students team up to study Earth’s interior
Crimson White – Aug. 4
A UA graduate student and an Auburn University senior are among the participants in a project that aims to use earthquake signals to essentially make a 3-D model of the Earth’s surface. The Earthscope Project uses a collection of seismographs that help geoscientists study the Earth globally, according to a UA news release…Stanton Ingram of the University of Alabama and James Taylor of Auburn University, both majoring in geosciences, joined 10 students in finding locations for seismic stations in Alabama and in the Midwest. Stanton and Ingram chose 23 locations that would house seismometers for two years and traveled to talk to nearby landowners…Andrew Goodliffe, associate professor and graduate program director of the University’s department of geological sciences, also took part in the study. “We looked for the students who were best prepared to work in the field,” he said. “We also choose students based on good interpersonal skills. Finding locations for our seismic stations involved a lot of knocking on doors and talking to people and explaining what the project was about.”…