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UA’s director of child development resources discusses PAL
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) -- May 30
UA’s Director of Child Development Resources, Sally Edwards, was interviewed about the Parenting Assistance Line.

UA offers new service for parents
NBC 13 (Birmingham) -- May 29 and May 30
UA is now offering a new service for parents called the Parenting Assistance Line…

Grants give young engineers a leg up
Birmingham News – June 1
The new initiative, organized and equally funded by the state Department of Education, the University of Alabama System and Auburn University, ...

Faith forged in slavery
Birmingham News – June 1
Fallin's latest book, "Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama," released today by the University of Alabama Press, details their ...

Civil War era artifacts unearthed on UA campus
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) -- May 30
CBS 42 (Birmingham) -- May 30
Archeologists have found belt buckles, buttons, a toothbrush and even part of an iron bed on the site that was once Jefferson Hall, a UA dormitory that was destroyed in the Civil War.

Tide’s Salem honored
Mobile Register – June 1
Alabama baseball player Emeel Salem was presented the H. Boyd McWhorter SEC Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year award Thursday night at the league's annual spring banquet.
Salem, a senior from Birmingham, has earned a 3.85 grade-point average with a double major in marketing and Spanish…also was the winner of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, considered the highest honor the University of Alabama bestows upon a male and female graduate each year…

UA softball player named NCAA All-American
KBTV (Beaumont, Tex.) – May 31
UA Softball Player Lauren Parker has been named to the NCAA All-American List. Her 457 average is the fifth highest in the nation and the second highest in Crimson Tide history.

Surge in house prices ranks state 15th in U.S.
Birmingham News – June 1
…The University of Alabama's Real Estate Research and Education Center reported in February that it was taking longer to sell a home in the Birmingham area and said 3,000 more houses were listed than a year ago…

Some parents may intentionally make their kids sick
WDAF (Kansas City, Mo.) -- May 31
UA psychiatrist, Dr. Marc Feldman, says some parents may suffer from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy in which parents make their children sick so they can get attention.

Bill eases way for Alabama banks
Mobile Register – June 1
…Benton Gup, finance professor at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, said the new law, which is the first major update to the state's banking code ...

New commander of THAAD is a UA graduate
WHNT (Huntsville) – May 31
Colonel William Lamb has taken over the command of THAAD or Theater High Altitude Area Defense System. Lamb received an MBA from the University of Alabama.

UA fanatic grills up the perfect Alabama steak
Food Network – May 30
UA fanatic Raymond Monroe has combined his love for the Tide with his love for steak. Monroe has created a tool that brands a steak with your favorite team’s logo while it cooks.