Ship designer, NASA chief speak at UA
Birmingham News – Aug. 26
…Rutan and David King, director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, were the keynote speakers Saturday for the Gloria and John L. Blackburn Academic Symposium, held at the University of Alabama. They spoke before about 500 attendees. The symposium's topic was "Responsibility for the Future Exploration and Development of Space…

UA Astronaut Speaks to High School Students
UA astronaut, Col. Jim Kelly, spoke to high school students at Northridge High School.
Fox 6 (Birmingham) -- Aug. 24
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) -- Aug. 24

Tide Text alerts UA students
Crimson White – Aug. 25
…Tide Text Alerts sends its subscribers text messages that include safety alerts, weather updates, road accidents, news and residential community updates…”Events like Virginia Tech are very rare," said Deborah Lane, UA spokeswoman. "The most likely scenario for the University would be severe weather." Lane said text messaging has advantages that no other medium has. "It's a very quick way to get information," Lane said. "It's less intrusive - it doesn't have to ring." So far, some students are wary about signing up, fearing their inbox will be cluttered. "I would sign up for the emergency one," said Adam Murphy, a sophomore majoring in history…

Opinion: Big changes come to the University of Alabama campus
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 26
So far, so good for the two-week-old bus system on the University of Alabama campus. Certainly there have been kinks to work out with a system that is a radical change for the way students, faculty, staff and visitors are accustomed to getting around campus…

Meet Mrs. Nick Saban
Birmingham News – Aug. 26
…Terry Saban really came on this campus with the desire to make it a better place," says R.B. Walker, president of the UA Student Government Association. "She's very charismatic, very approachable, very friendly and, evidently, a visionary."…The Sabans also made a personal donation of $100,000 to help UA students who, like they were, are the first in their families to go to college…

University of Alabama sorority pledges
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 27
One thousand eighty-one women recently pledged sororities at The University of Alabama. They are…

UA professor brought the world to Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 25
Retired University of Alabama professor Ronald Ray Robel, best known in Tuscaloosa for opening the city’s first Chinese restaurant, but known worldwide for his character, died of cancer at 3 a.m. Friday…
Crimson White – Aug. 27

O’Connor-Snyder, mentor to UA up-and-comers, dies at 75
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 25
Jean O’Connor-Snyder who worked with generations of Capstone Men and Crimson Girls at the University of Alabama, died at 75 after a long illness…Former UA President David Mathews and his wife, Mary Mathews, issued a formal statement about O’Connor-Snyder’s death: “The driving force behind the Capstone Men and Women program, she educated and inspired a generation of students in the art of citizenship. The benefit of her good work lives on in those students and in the young people who will be influenced by their leadership."…

Mortgage crisis has local effect
Florence Times-Daily – Aug. 26
…Leonard Zumpano, professor of finance at the University of Alabama, said no community is going to be immune from what's going on in the mortgage industry…Samuel Addy, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama, said the chaos has a lot to do with an individual's out-of-control spending habits as well as the mortgage industry itself…

Still fighting
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 26
…said David Lanoue, chairman of the University of Alabama’s political science department. “I think the 19th Amendment has to be viewed for what it was – something that enfranchised a whole gender. “Now, that said, if Hillary were to get the nomination and certainly go on to get elected president, it would be a landmark event…

UA grad will head American Bar Association
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 25
Birmingham attorney H. Thomas Wells Jr., a graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law, will take over as president of the American Bar Association next August, becoming the third Alabamian to head the group…

City hopes to expand pre-K program
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 26
…and the University of Alabama helps provide arts and music instruction…

Business Briefs
Birmingham News -- Aug. 25
Alabama Launchpad, an entrepreneurial contest sponsored by the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama, will begin accepting applications for its second competition on Sept. 4…UAB, University of Alabama, University of Alabama-Huntsville and Auburn, Alabama A&M and Alabama State universities…

SGA plans for more student involvement
Crimson White – Aug. 25
…The SGA plans to make this year more action based and more open to students' voices, Walker said. Recent issues have been the implementation of the CrimsonRide transit…

Get on Board Day to help students get involved
Crimson White – Aug. 27
…Lee Keyes, UA Counseling Center director, said the key factor to overcoming homesickness is getting involved with activities. "The student who goes to Get on Board Day, or gets involved with greek life, is the student who will overcome homesickness more quickly," Keyes said…

Campus MovieFest comes to Bama
Crimson White – Aug. 27
…Campus MovieFest, the world's largest student film festival, is coming to the University for the first time Wednesday to give students the opportunity to create their own five-minute film and compete to win prizes and gain exposure…

Space engineer, director to speak at UA event
Birmingham News – Aug. 24
Maverick aerospace engineer Burt Rutan and David King, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, will speak Saturday during the Gloria and John L. Blackburn Academic Symposium at the University of Alabama…
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 25 (Print version only)