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UA in the News: July 24, 2007

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Game-Day changes
NBC 13 (Birmingham) -- July 21 and 22
WDEF (Chattanooga, Tenn.) -- July 22

Game-day changes: More campus roads closed -- Road closures begin three hours before the game -- Tailgating setup and RV parking prohibited until 6 p.m. on Fridays before gamedays -- Information booth and big-screen TV on the Quad -- Five restroom trailers on campus…

UA Programs Aim To Recruit, Train, Retain Rural Docs
NBC 13 (Birmingham) – July 23

To help prepare for the role, Maxwell participated in the Rural Health Leaders Pipeline programs at the University of Alabama. The programs, like similar ...
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – July 23

Students pick up extra jobs to earn cash
Tuscaloosa News – July 24

…Paavo Hanninen, the director of small business development at the University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research, said Mariah’s volunteer work helped her gain experience, and he believes experience is one of an entrepreneur’s most valuable assets…

Edwards leads in money race
Montgomery Advertiser – July 24

...”One (reason) is that Democrats are very, very motivated. They've been out of power for six years," said David Lanoue, who chairs the political science depart­ment at the University of Alabama. "And the second thing is that Republicans are very discouraged" by their current crop of candidates…

Throbbing oil drops enigma solved
Cosmos Magazine (Australia) – July 24

...“I am all for science which is driven by sheer curiosity,” commented Alexander Frenkel a mathematician at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, whose fluid dynamics work helped Bush and Stocker crack the problem. “Such science… generates some of the best practical applications – as a by-product which was quite unintended at the research outset…

Despite pop works’ claims, Buddhist, Catholic beliefs collide, don’t blend
Catholic.org – July 24

…according to Anthony Clark, a professor of Chinese history at the University of Alabama, for all the seeming and real differences in Buddhism, at their core, all forms share the same four fundamental principles. Those principles, referred to as the “Four Noble Truths”…

School News
Tuscaloosa News – July 24

Area additional college-sponsored Merit Scholarship winners included: …Daniel J. Hershman of Tuscaloosa, graduate of Northridge High School, received a National Merit University of Alabama Scholarship…

Moves
Birmingham News – July 24

Jason Hatter has been named manufacturing outreach coordinator for the Alabama Productivity Center at the University of Alabama.