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UA plans bookstore expansion
Tuscaloosa News – June 25
…The Supply Store is busting at the seams to meet the needs of the growing student body,” said Mike Lanier, a vice president with Hoar Construction, the company that oversees UA projects…“The size of the store is not adequate for the students we have now,” said Gina Johnson, head of UA auxiliaries. The project is expected to cost $2.9 million and increase the size of the store by 28 percent, increasing the square footage from 25,562 to 32,820…

Former EntreMed Chief Is Back on the Scene
Washington Post – June 25
…Holaday, acting as an ambassador for Maryland's biotech community, traveled abroad about five years ago to exchange ideas with members of the international life-sciences community…eventually he met Gary Pace, an entrepreneur in Australia who had founded a company based on technology from the University of Queensland…That company was QRxPharma, and it needed another product besides the pain drug. Holaday knew of a promising treatment for central nervous system disorders being developed at the University of Alabama, which he had attended…

Health Notes
Birmingham News – June 25
The Parkinson's Association of Alabama gave a $10,000 donation to a University of Alabama research lab led by Guy and Kim Caldwell…

Rural doctor shortage likely to get worse
Montgomery Advertiser – June 24
... as their urban counterparts, they usually have to broaden their practice, said John Wheat, a professor of rural medicine at the University of Alabama. ...

You can judge a book by its cover in Arthur Jaffe's collection of 10,000 volumes
Palm Beach (Fla.) Post – June 23
…The Jaffe Center teaches printmaking, letterpress operation, bookbinding, paper decoration and other related arts. There is only one other academic institution with a similar course of study and similar equipment, at the University of Alabama…

Raising help for Hillary
Newsday (New York) – June 24
In the most recent large-scale poll, a University of Alabama survey taken last fall, Hillary Clinton bested all challengers with 49 percent. ...
AM-New York – June 24

Out-of-state school boosters may get license plates
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger -- June 23
…The University of Alabama kicked off its publicity efforts last week, Slay said, hoping to gain support for the specialty tags through word of mouth and alumni association publications…

PAC earns attention and $12
Montgomery Advertiser – June 24
…Certainly other political action committees have received far more, but it caps what has been a surprising amount of media atten¬tion heaped on a 25-year-old blog¬ger looking to make a point about banning money transfers between PACs. "Blown away is my reaction," said Dan Roberts, a University of Alabama engineering student. "I was just really surprised it had the reaction it did."

College Briefs
Tuscaloosa News -- June 25
Eric S. Williams, associate professor of health care management at the Culverhouse College of Commerce at The University of Alabama, has been elected to the leadership team of the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management…