Fall enrollment at University of Alabama sets record
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 12
The University of Alabama has again seen a record-breaking year for student enrollment with 34,852 students arriving on campus this fall, an increase of 3.7 percent from 2012. The enrollment figures released Thursday show an increase of 1,250 students from fall 2012. The student body this fall includes 29,443 undergraduates and 5,409 graduate and first professional students. The record enrollment this fall continues a trend of rapid growth at UA during the past decade. Enrollment in 2003 was 20,333, including 15,892 undergraduates and 4,441 graduate and first professional students, according to UA enrollment reports…UA’s administration also highlighted the academic talents of the student body. The fall 2013 freshman class of 6,478 students includes 1,768 who had a 4.0 or higher GPA in high school and 1,741 who scored in the top 5 percent on the ACT, according to information released by UA. The average ACT score of 25.8 for the class was also a historic high for UA. The university has more than 600 National Merit Scholars, including 126 in the freshman class.
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The Edge to graduate first start-up business
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 12
Zambooki Holdings will graduate today from The Edge-Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. It will be the first start-up business to graduate from the downtown business incubator facility. The Edge is a joint project of the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama, the city of Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama’ business school. It assists entrepreneurs starting businesses, providing low-rent facilities, shared services, mentoring and other assistance. Zambooki started as an online referral service and has since added other additional online businesses. It has 15 employees. It will be moving to its own facility on Hackberry Lane.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg to speak on southern foods at Athens Grease Festival
Al.com – Sept. 12
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg is the de facto expert on southern culture, the go-to Bubba when questions arise about why we do what we do. A best-selling author who currently teaches in the journalism program at the University of Alabama, Bragg writes a column for Southern Living, the catalog of food, people and places of the South. So it’s no stretch to bring Bragg and southern food together for this year’s Athens Grease Festival to be held Sept. 28 in historic downtown Athens. Bragg – author of seven books including “All Over But the Shoutin’” — will speak about southern food traditions at 5 p.m. at the Athens State University Center for Lifelong Learning.
Tests confirm that remains found are missing homicide victim
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 12
Forensic tests have confirmed that a body found Saturday is a homicide victim who has been missing since July…Keith Jacobi, a biological anthropologist at the University of Alabama, oversaw the recovery of the skeletal remains, which were later transported to an Alabama Department of Forensic Science lab for tests.