New recreation center opens on Univ. of Alabama campus
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – Aug. 18
Classes begin at the University of Alabama on Wednesday, and plenty of new students are making their way to campus. However, the new students are not the only thing new to campus. Students can now work up a sweat at the school’s new 85,000 square foot recreation center. The new recreation center has views of the Black Warrior River, a rink floor for hockey or dodge ball and a large, indoor climbing wall. “I think what we’re most proud of is that we have been able to enhance things that were clearly in high demand at the Rec Center,” said Dr. George Brown. “The Rec Center was built and added onto in 2004, so 10 years later, we’ve learned a lot.” Brown tells WIAT 42 the facility opened at 10 a.m. Monday for students. Within three hours, 500 students had already been to the new facility to work out.
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Aug. 18
‘More important than anything I’ve done,’ Lars Anderson says of his book ‘The Storm and the Tide’
Al.com – Aug. 18
The text message stopped Lars Anderson in his tracks. The longtime Sports Illustrated writer and author of the new book “The Storm and the Tide” was out for a run in his Cahaba Heights neighborhood when the message popped up on his phone. It was from Ashley Mims, the mother of Loryn Brown, who was one final exam away from realizing her dream of attending the University of Alabama when the April 27, 2011, tornado tore through Tuscaloosa, taking the lives of Loryn and 52 others while leaving a lifetime of grief and destruction in its wake. Anderson had grown close to Ashley and her ex-husband, former Alabama football star Shannon Brown, while researching and writing his book, and through them, he had also come to know Loryn, even though he never met her. He kept her picture above his computer while he wrote. Loryn’s story is featured in the current issue of Sports Illustrated, which ran a six-page excerpt from Anderson’s book … Now a journalism professor at the University of Alabama and a special contributor to the Alabama Media Group, Anderson sat down with AL.com to talk more about “The Storm and the Tide” and how the 2011 Crimson Tide football team lifted a tornado-ravaged community’s spirits and how Tuscaloosa, in turn, rallied around its hometown team.
Alabama Graphite Creates Technical Advisory Council and Appoints Leading Carbon Expert Dr. Nitin Chopra from the University of Alabama as Inaugural Member
Market Watch – Aug. 18
Alabama Graphite Corp. (the “Company”) (ALP) (otcqx:ABGPF) (frankfurt:1AG WKN) (ISIN# CA0102931080) is pleased to announce that Dr. Nitin Chopra, Associate Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and an adjunct professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at The University of Alabama, has joined the Company’s Technical Advisory Council. The council will include members that have specific technical, regulatory or administrative expertise necessary to rapidly advance the Company’s flagship Coosa Graphite Project, located in Coosa County, Alabama, USA. Dr. Chopra’s research interests include development of nanoscale heterostructures based on graphene/carbon nanotubes/carbon nanocapsules, their growth mechanisms and reactor design, surface modification/materials chemistry and purification of carbon materials, materials characterization of nanomaterials using microscopic and spectroscopic methods, and applications in biofunctional surfaces, sensors, energy, complex nanoarchitectures, and devices.
Spirited, blunt assessments on race relations kicks off Mobile United’s series of community conversations
Al.com – Aug. 18
A community conversation on race Monday evolved into a spirited and sometime blunt, analysis of present and past race relations in America, Alabama and Mobile. The approximately two-hour conversation was sparked by two presenters: The Rev. Robert Allen Turner, the assistant program director at the Dave Matthews Center for Civic Life in Montgomery and Stephen Black, founder of the University of Alabama’s Center for Ethics & Social Responsibility and Impact Alabama. Their presentations came after Mobile United, the host of the community conversation, reported that out of 600 responses from an online survey that 70 percent believe Mobile needs to have a conversation about race relations. Of those responding, 80 percent believe race relations needs improving in Mobile. … Black emphasized that in order to improve relationships between the white and black communities, that individuals have to be willing to have productive relationships with people “that are unlike ourselves.”
NBC 15 (Mobile) – Aug. 18