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UA programs aim to recruit, train and retain rural doctors
Associated Press – July 22
…Maxwell has participated in the Rural Health Leaders Pipeline programs at the University of Alabama…Expanding and improving rural health care is a cause that is dear to program founder and director Dr. John Wheat, who received the Distinguished Educator Award from the National Rural Health Association in May. “I am a product of rural Alabama, and I am very much aware of the different opportunities to get medical care that exist there versus in urban and suburban Alabama,” said Wheat…
Montgomery Advertiser – July 23

Mobile County grads earn $71.2 million in college scholarships
Mobile Register – July 22
Mobile County schools' Class of 2007 raked in almost $20 million more in college scholarships than the Class of 2006, with Baker High School again topping the list in money earned…Most Baker students are going to the University of South Alabama, the University of Alabama and Auburn University…

Seats added for FSU-Alabama game
The Beaches Leader (Jacksonville, Fla.) – July 22
…5,800 temporary seats will be added to Jacksonville Municipal Stadium for the River City Showdown on Saturday, Sept. 29. The game features Florida State taking on Alabama and demand for tickets has been so great, the additional seating was required…
Tickets for the additional 5,800 seats will be split evenly between the two schools and are only available through the University of Alabama or Florida State…

Narashino students pay summer visit to sister city
Tuscaloosa News – July 21
…The students attend classes from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the English Language Institute…
For their first week in Tuscaloosa, the Narashino students stayed in Rose Towers on the University of Alabama campus…

Dow passes 14,000 mark with little notice
Montgomery Advertiser – July 23
…Finance experts at the University of Alabama and Troy University said it's great that the market is up -- way up -- but that the 14,000 mark, passed for the first time on Tuesday, is no more or less significant than some random number, whether it is a higher or lower number…

Opinion: Nation’s health care is ‘Sicko’
Tuscaloosa News – July 22
…when Dr. Wilmer Coggins, the dean emeritus and professor emeritus of internal medicine at the University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences, brought a physician colleague involved with the organization “Health Care for Everyone – Alabama” by the office for a presentation to the Tuscaloosa News Editorial Board…

Brandt Ayers: Journalists show character job needs
Montgomery Advertiser – July 22
…Six University of Alabama master's degree candidates, who studied and worked inside The Star's newsroom, all graduated this week, the first class of the nation's first teaching newspaper -- like a teaching hospital…

UA alum starts amateur-edited encyclopedia
Tuscaloosa News – July 22
Jimmy Wales, a founding father of online encyclopedia Wikipedia and a graduate of the University of Alabama…

Tennessee Bankruptcy Rates Highest in Nation
MyFoxMemphis.com – July 21
Like Tennessee, Alabama also had an aggressive introduction of Chapter 13 by lawyers in 1930s, according to University of Alabama law professor Gene Marsh. ...

Tuscaloosa not ready for $500,000 condos – yet
Tuscaloosa News – July 22
…“I think you can sum it up in one simple word," said Bill Evans, interim executive director of the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center. “Demand…

Mayor doubts census count
Decatur Daily -- July 22
…problem is the information, or lack of it, the Census Bureau has received from the city, said Annette Jones Watters, manager of the State Data Center at The University of Alabama…
Florence Times-Daily -- July 21

Fretwell wants administrator’s job for himself
Tuscaloosa News – July 21
…Fretwell said the changes were spurred by the results of a recent study conducted by the Alabama Productivity Center at the University of Alabama. He said the study indicated that Northport could operate more effectively with a council-mayor form of government, instead of employing a city administrator to oversee the city’s day-to-day operations…

Outdoors notebook
Birmingham News – July 22
The University of Alabama bass fishing team has received a No. 1 preseason ranking from the Fox Collegiate Sports Network poll…

College News
Tuscaloosa News -- July 23
The following students were on the University of Alabama honors lists for the spring 2007 semester: President's List ALICEVILLE: Joanna Crowell…