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UA-Shelton State Bridge
FOX6 (Birmingham) – June 29
…The University and Shelton State announced what they call “The Bridge Program” today. It will help students from the two-year college make the transition to the Capstone…

UA head saw broad social changes
Tuscaloosa News – July 1
…Strong said those days as dean of students were some of the most enjoyable of his career, which ended Friday when the 62-year-old retired after 40 years on campus…

Program builds history education
Tuscaloosa News – June 30
…Friday marked the end of the Teaching American History Program’s summer workshop at the University of Alabama. The three-year grant program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, is designed to improve the teaching and learning of history in public schools, said Lisa Lindquist Dorr, the program’s lead historian…

Online, and dying for attention
Chicago Tribune – July 1
…Dr. Marc Feldman, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama, has investigated such minds for 15 years, usually in the "off line" world. Feldman is an expert in fictitious illnesses, including Munchausen syndrome, in which sufferers feign the symptoms of an illness, usually to get attention…

Alabama student leads group studying Indians' Waddle and Daub
Vicksburg (Miss.) Post – July 1
…Downs, 28, is a doctoral student in anthropology at the University of Alabama. For the past month she has been heading a crew of students excavating a mound at the Glass Site in south Warren County…After earning an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill she visited the University of Alabama where she found the program “above and beyond” that of many other schools…

Opinion: Closing book on novel case
Birmingham News – July 1
…Those constitutional strictures explain, as University of Alabama law professor Susan Pace Hamill testified for the plaintiffs during a district court hearing, why property taxes make up only 5 percent of state government revenue. Income taxes and other measures contribute 44 percent and the sales tax generates more than 50 percent, she testified…

Boho NO
New Orleans Times-Picayune – July 1
…"Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press," by Jeff Weddle, takes us back to New Orleans in the '60s…Weddle, an assistant professor of library and information studies at the University of Alabama…

Siegelman-Scrushy case may jangle nerves
Montgomery Advertiser -- July 1
…"Every measure needs to be taken to make sure there's not a cause-and-effect relationship," said William Stewart, political science professor emeritus at the University of Alabama…

Siegelman fallout is viewed as limited
Huntsville Times -- July 1
…But Stewart said recent events in Alabama, including the Senate punch and apparent systemic corruption in the two-year college system, "has put a negative light on Alabama." Stewart said he expects the Alabama Republican Party to use Siegelman's conviction and the community college scandal as major issues in the 2010 state elections

Auburn president healed university, sealing his legacy
Birmingham News -- July 2
…when they write the history of his time in these jobs, historians and political scientists will find that Dr. Richardson really left a substantial footprint on public education in Alabama, maybe a substantial impact beyond education," said William Stewart, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Alabama…

Opinion: Say a little prayer for us
Mobile Register – July 2
…As University of Alabama political scientist William Stewart observed, Alabamians who pray regularly are likely to comply with Gov. Riley's request…

Sewer scandal cost: $336,800,000
Birmingham News – July 1
…"Waste compounds over time," said Robert Brooks, an economics professor at the University of Alabama. "It's like running up credit card debt, getting a second mortgage to pay it off, then running up more credit card debt. It is not a good idea if you have not cured the financial waste." …

College News
Tuscaloosa News – July 2
Amanda Wallace, community director in Housing and Residential Communities at the University of Alabama, received the William Leftwich Award…Rich Houston, professor of accounting in the Culverhouse School of Accountancy at the University of Alabama, has been elected chair of the Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Section of the American Accounting Association…

MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Scarborough, Undiluted in the A.M.
Washington Post -- July 2
…there is one constant in Scarborough's career, it is his positioning as the outspoken outsider. The University of Alabama graduate was practicing law in Pensacola in 1993 -- "I hated it," he says -- when he abandoned the Democratic Party…

UA law professor first to emerge for District 4 vacancy
Tuscaloosa News – July 2
…So far, the only candidate to emerge publicly is Bryan Fair, a lawyer and University of Alabama law professor who has indicated that he will lobby for the seat…

Northport woman earns sixth-degree black belt in taekwondo
Tuscaloosa News – July 1
…Melanie Miller, director of the Women’s Resource Center at the University of Alabama, appreciates Kimbrell’s contribution to women’s expanding roles…“It’s important for children to see women in roles that traditionally only men have been in," Miller said. “They grow up with a greater sense of what women can accomplish…

UA's Wheelchair Basketball Coach to Take Part in Paralympics
NBC13 (Birmingham) – June 29
…He also serves as assistant coach of the University of Alabama’s Wheelchair team…

Alabama Invitational
FOX6 (Birmingham) – June 28, 29 and 30
UA’s Bass Fishing Team held the Alabama Invitational on the Black Warrior River.